Reply #10: it doesn't matter how many people we get for the races....

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thats all of about 3 weeks of the entire year....daytona is still a tourist town, no matter what the city council here dreams. that museum would have meant sorely needed jobs and tax money to daytona and volusia county...which has one of the largest homeless populations in florida and the states lowest per person wages....charlote is a pretty diverse town...so is atlanta...economicly...we do not have that luxury here. bill france is an ass-hat for putting it anywhere else. you have to live here to know the influence he has over the city and county. daytona/ormond beach was the birthplace of NASCAR....nowhere else. the Streamliner hotel near main street on the beach side was for many years nascars headquaters...nascar and the frances own this town.....this is a slap in the face of every citizen who has had to deal with the traffic, rude fans, over priced walk overs to the track that the city paid for, rising ticket prices, bought and sold city councilmen and mayors, etc, etc.......the france's can all go to hell.....did you know they pay $1.00 a year to lease the land the speedway is on? thats right...one fucking dollar a year.....they used 9/11 to justify not letting coolers into ISC tracks(tracks owned by the frances)to peddle $5.00 hot dogs and $6.00 beers to the peons who buy tickets....and they have sold out nearly half of the infield...the poor mans last vestige for race watching...to the RV'ers in 250k prevost luxury liners that can pay the thousand plus a day to park there. my nascar fan days...strained as they were, are now oh-fish-ali over!!!