NASCAR CAMPING TABLE OF CONTENTS TRACK INFORMATION NASCAR CUP SERIES NASCAR XFINITY SERIES WORLD TRUCK SERIES NTT INDYCAR SERIES NASCAR CAMPING TABLE OF CONTENTS TRACK INFORMATION NASCAR CUP SERIES NASCAR XFINITY SERIES WORLD TRUCK SERIES NTT INDYCAR SERIES TRACK INFORMATION Table of Contents 2021 Schedule of Events .............................................................................. 3 Marcus Smith, President and CEO, Speedway Motorsports ....................... 4 O. 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Official Sponsors and Promotional Partners ............................................ 50 TEXAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY 2 2021 SUMMER MEDIA GUIDE NASCAR CAMPING TABLE OF CONTENTS TRACK INFORMATION NASCAR CUP SERIES NASCAR XFINITY SERIES WORLD TRUCK SERIES NTT INDYCAR SERIES 2021 Schedule of Events RACING’S FASTEST DOUBLEHEADER NASCAR ALL-STAR WEEKEND NASCAR PLAYOFF WEEKEND May 1 / Genesys 300 June 12 / SpeedyCash.com 220 Oct. 16 / Cowboy 300 NTT INDYCAR SERIES NASCAR Camping World Truck Series NASCAR Xfinity Series May 2 / XPEL 375 June 12 / Alsco 250 Oct. 17 / Autotrader EchoPark NTT INDYCAR SERIES NASCAR Xfinity Series Automotive 500 NASCAR Cup Series June 13 / NASCAR All-Star Race NASCAR Cup Series TEXAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY 3 2021 SUMMER MEDIA GUIDE NASCAR CAMPING TABLE OF CONTENTS TRACK INFORMATION NASCAR CUP SERIES NASCAR XFINITY SERIES WORLD TRUCK SERIES NTT INDYCAR SERIES Marcus Smith President and Chief Executive Officer Speedway Motorsports Marcus Smith is the president and chief executive officer of Smith was promoted to vice president of business development Speedway Motorsports, LLC. He was named CEO in 2015, after for Speedway Motorsports in 2001. He became a director of serving for seven years as the company’s president and chief Speedway Motorsports in 2004 and was promoted to executive operating officer. It is a role for which he had been training most vice president of national sales and marketing, working on be- of his life. half of all 11 motorsports-related operating units of the company, including eight speedways, Performance Racing Network, SMI The son of Speedway Motorsports founder, O. Bruton Smith, Properties and U.S. Legend Cars International. Marcus started working at Charlotte Motor Speedway during the summer while in junior high school. He and his two brothers In 2008 he was named president and chief operating officer of would pick up trash, trim weeds, paint walls and perform numer- Speedway Motorsports as well as president and general man- ous other outside maintenance duties. ager of Charlotte Motor Speedway. In 2015, he assumed the role of chief executive officer for Speedway Motorsports. While attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Smith spent his summers working as an intern in several speed- Smith is also the president of Speedway Children’s Charities way departments including tickets, events, public relations, ad- Charlotte Chapter and chairman of the board for the Charlotte ministration and corporate sales. Chapter of Youth Commission International. In addition, Smith serves as a board member for Sonic Automotive, the Charlotte In 1996, Smith joined Charlotte Motor Speedway’s corporate Chamber of Commerce, Charlotte Sports Foundation, and Mo- sales department as a marketing assistant and was eventually tor Racing Outreach. promoted to account executive. Smith spearheaded the effort to form Speedway Motorsports’ national sales and marketing department. He was selected to head the new effort and became manager of new business de- velopment for Speedway Motorsports, LLC in 1999. ABOUT SPEEDWAY MOTORSPORTS Speedway Motorsports is a leading marketer, promoter and sponsor of motorsports entertainment in the United States. The Company, through its subsidiaries, owns and operates the following premier facilities: Atlanta Motor Speedway, Bristol Motor Speedway, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Ken- tucky Speedway, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, New Hamp- shire Motor Speedway, Sonoma Raceway, and Texas Mo- tor Speedway. Speedway Motorsports provides souvenir merchandising services through its SMI Properties subsid- iaries; manufactures and distributes smaller-scale, modified racing cars and parts through its US Legend Cars Interna- tional subsidiary; and produces and broadcasts syndicat- ed motorsports programming to radio stations nationwide through its Performance Racing Network subsidiary. TEXAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY 4 2021 SUMMER MEDIA GUIDE NASCAR CAMPING TABLE OF CONTENTS TRACK INFORMATION NASCAR CUP SERIES NASCAR XFINITY SERIES WORLD TRUCK SERIES NTT INDYCAR SERIES O. Bruton Smith Executive Chairman Speedway Motorsports Growing up on a modest farm near Oakboro, North Carolina, in attracting large crowds, it was undercapitalized and eventu- O. Bruton Smith parlayed his love for “building things” into a ally placed in Chapter 10 reorganization. It later became one of business empire, focusing on the motorsports and automotive the first North Carolina corporations to survive reorganization. industries. During the reorganization, Smith left Charlotte to pursue other Smith founded Speedway Motorsports, LLC by consolidating his business interests and became quite successful, opening several motorsports holdings in December 1994, and in February 1995 automotive dealerships. At the same time, he began purchas- he made it the first motorsports company to trade on the New ing shares of stock in Charlotte Motor Speedway. By 1975, Smith York Stock Exchange. In 2019, the company became privately had again become the majority stockholder in the speedway, held after a purchase by Smith’s Sonic Financial Corporation. regaining control of the day-to-day operations. Speedway Motorsports owns and operates eight premier Since that time, Smith has built the 1.5-mile superspeedway into motorsports facilities: Atlanta Motor Speedway, Bristol Motor what many consider “the Mecca of Motorsports facilities.” His Speedway, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Kentucky Speedway, innovative style brought many amenities never before seen, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Sonoma Raceway, New Hamp- such as plush VIP suites, condominium units, a country club-style shire Motor Speedway and Texas Motor Speedway. Speedway restaurant, enclosed clubhouse seating and huge grandstand Motorsports also provides souvenir merchandising services additions. Smith added a $1.7-million lighting system in 1992 through its SMI Properties subsidiary; manufactures and distrib- that made it possible for the track to host the first night race on utes smaller-scale, modified racing cars through U.S. Legend a modern superspeedway, and in 2011, he added the world’s Cars International; and markets, produces and distributes mo- largest HDTV, which revolutionized the at-track fan experience. torsports programming to more than 700 radio stations through In 2018, Smith and his son, Marcus, revolutionized road-course