Ultimate boondoggle! The Kansas Speedway hosts TWO races per year. That is about two weeks of activity per year at a half billion dollar track. The Kansas Speedway and the area around it was a wasteland other than those two race dates until a massive casino was built in 2012. 

I used to live about four miles from Bandimere Speedway - and Saturday evenings in the summer were like being at the track. A half mile separation is a joke.

What isn't funny is the constant efforts by those in Aurora city government to finance sketchy developments at taxpayer expense. I doubt Aurora will ever recover the $300 million handed to Gaylord to build their convention center. And as folks in Kansas can tell you a race track is a bottomless pit.