After a victorious night of dirt car racing, track owner Tony Stewart and promoter Roger Slack ended the post race conference with a toast for success. As the post conference was about the end, Slack faced Stewart and asked "we tell them about the dome?"
With that, Stewart announced their plans of improvement for the race track "Yeah, if we can raise $25 million, we will put a dome and a roof over top of Eldora Speedway. ... This is not a joke. We have a fellow competitor who is a large engineer and he's figured out what it would actually take to put a roof over Eldora, so it's about a $25 million project to do if we were able to get an event like a (NASCAR Sprint) Cup race. That would definitely be a lot easier to justify spending $25 million. If not, I don't know how many $1.50 hot dogs we'd have to sell to raise $25 million."
At first, a lot were wondering whether the idea was feasible. But with the tracks reputation of breaking from the barrier, it is best to say that the comments will be reserved until people won't hear anything of it.
Stewart was head over heels happy with the result of the race saying "I'm going to sum this up really short and really easy. If you didn't like that race, you don't know what racing is all about, because when you have a half-mile dirt track and you've got trucks four-wide -- legitimately four-wide -- and three-wide for a bunch of the race ... we don't even have that at any of our big races, that kind of four-wide and three-wide action. As good as it was last year, this definitely topped it."
The success of the dirt track should also be credited to Slack and his staff of seven full-time employees. The idea to improve and revamp the racing track was considered a great achievement for all. But Stewart also praised the drivers who run the dirt tracking during the race saying "Guys that aren't used to doing this learned to throw slide jobs and learned how to do crossover moves -- stuff that it takes guys a long time to learn. And it shows why these guys got to where they are in NASCAR because how quick they adapt, how quick they learn."