Bahre will eventually sell NHIS
"The track isn't for sale, but my son (Gary) got sick a few years back and he would never want to run it alone, I can tell you that now," Bob Bahre said.
"I'm going to be 80 next year. If I die tomorrow, he'd probably sell it before the funeral."
Bahre was joking about the pre-funeral sale, but said he receives calls from interested buyers probably every six weeks or so.
Speedway Motorsports Inc. owner Bruton Smith has made little secret of his interest in the speedway, and International Speedway Corp. also has expressed its interest, should it be for sale, the Observer has learned.
"For now, we'll just keep going the way it is," Bob Bahre said. "I feel pretty good. I get tired in the afternoons.
"The doctors told me about two years ago that I have a bad valve in my heart. I said, `I got 65 cars in my garage and half of those have bad values and they're still going good.' The doctors thought I was going nuts."
Asked if he would hang on to the track as long as his health permits, Bahre replied: "Absolutely. Again, someday, maybe five to 10 years, I don't know what's going to happen." More at Charlotte Observer