NASCAR Gold

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NASCAR Gold is a TV report by Dylan Ratigan about the business of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR). It is part of a series of reports called CNBC on Assignment that runs on the business channel CNBC. NASCAR Gold first aired on 2005-07-11 at 8 p.m. Eastern Time.

The program described the advertisement by many publicly traded companies around NASCAR, the conflict between the France family who direct NASCAR and the owners of race tracks, and the future of NASCAR, including its business expansion.

On the program, Ratigan interviewed various personalities around the NASCAR business:

  1. Brian France, NASCAR chief executive officer
  2. George Pyne, NASCAR chief operations officer
  3. Rick Hendrick, Hendrick Motorsports chief executive officer
  4. Jimmie Johnson, Hendrick Motorsports driver
  5. Robby Gordon, NASCAR driver
  6. Dale Jarrett, NASCAR driver
  7. Humpy Wheeler, the CEO of a speedway business
  8. DuPont chief executive officer Charles Holliday
  9. Dennis McAlpine, market analyst of McAlpine Associates

Other personalities also appeared on the program:

  1. George W. Bush, being inteviewed during the 2004 presidential campaign at a race track
  2. Eugenio Derbez, Televisa Mexican TV comedian, at a NASCAR race in Mexico City
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