NASCAR promoter has no class

Speaking of Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the track showed a rare lack of class with its xenophobic newspaper ad promoting last Saturday's short-track racing at The Bullring.

The ad, a clear cheap shot at the Champ Car event going on downtown, prominently featured the line "Real American Racers!" with the word "American" underlined.

Only two of the 17 racers in the field for Sunday's Vegas Grand Prix were born in America.

Funny, we don't recall the speedway having a problem promoting Colombian driver Juan Pablo Montoya during its NASCAR test in January and the races in March, or using Canadian-born drivers Paul Tracy, Alex Tagliani and Patrick Carpentier – all Las Vegas residents – to publicize the Champ Car races at LVMS in 2004 and 2005. Las Vegas Sun