A Sheriff from Gallatin County in Kentucky revealed more than 30 people have been arrested after \u201cinfluencers\u201d broke into Kentucky Speedway and posted videos to social media. The sheriff, who is named Bud Webster, said the break-ins have been happening since June.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been quite the ordeal since then,\u201d Webster said, per WLWT.com<\/a>. \u201cWhen they post to social media, it\u2019s my understanding that they get paid if they get so many followers or hits, so that\u2019s what the purpose of it is.\u201d<\/p>\n Webster said that the people have been either jumping the fence or cutting through to get into the venue. He also revealed there has been \u201cvandalism and damage to property.\u201d Kentucky Speedway use to host NASCAR and IndyCar races, but now the venue hosts smaller events, and parts of the property is rented out to companies. <\/p>\n \u201cThey think that the facility is abandoned, and it\u2019s not,\u201d Gallatin County Sheriff\u2019s Office Cpt. Brent McDonald said, per Fox19 in Cincinnati.<\/a> \u201cThey still are track testing there. They still run the Richard Petty Driving Experience. So, there are still race cars that are running the track, so it is not abandoned.\u201d<\/p>\n Will NASCAR return to Kentucky Speedway?<\/p>\n Kentucky Speedway opened in 2000 and is currently owned by Speedway Motorsports. It began hosting NASCAR Cup Series races in 2011, and the event was called the Quaker State 400 (which is now held in Atlanta). The race was held at Kentucky Speedway for 10 seasons, and Brad Keselowski<\/strong> holds the record for most wins at the track with three (2012, 2014 and 2016). <\/p>\n In 2024, Denny Hamlin talked<\/strong> about the possibility of NASCAR returning to Kentucky. <\/a>\u201cI don\u2019t know. I mean there\u2019s \u2014 Kentucky\u2019s still out there,\u201d\u00a0Hamlin stated<\/a>, regarding tracks where NASCAR could return. \u201cKentucky Speedway. There\u2019s tracks out there. We need to think about it. We can\u2019t just make a knee-jerk reaction and say, \u2018Oh, we\u2019ve got to have more of this or more of that.\u2019 A lot of it plays into the facilities.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know that you know, Kentucky is definitely not top-notch when it comes to facilities there. It needs, it would need some major work.\u201d<\/p>\n It doesn\u2019t look like NASCAR has plans to return to Kentucky any time soon. The 2026 NASCAR Cup Series schedule was released on Wednesday, and Kentucky Speedway will not host one of the 38 events. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Sheriff from Gallatin County in Kentucky revealed more than 30 people have been arrested after \u201cinfluencers\u201d broke…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":162925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-162924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-nascar","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115064950222196869","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}