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Business Operations
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2018
Business Operations  
Business Operations

 

NOTE 1 — Business Operations

 

References in this document to “we,” “us” and “our” mean Dover Motorsports, Inc. and/or its wholly owned subsidiaries, as appropriate.

 

Dover Motorsports, Inc. is a public holding company that is a leading marketer and promoter of motorsports entertainment in the United States.  Through our subsidiaries, we own and operate Dover International Speedway® in Dover, Delaware and Nashville Superspeedway® near Nashville, Tennessee.  Our Dover facility promoted the following six events during 2018, all of which were under the auspices of the premier sanctioning body in motorsports - the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (“NASCAR”):

 

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2 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series events (May and October);

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2 NASCAR XFINITY Series events (May and October);

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1 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event (May); and

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1 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East event (October).

 

In 2019, we celebrate our 50th anniversary of NASCAR racing and we are scheduled to once again promote these six events at Dover International Speedway, together with many special fan amenities to mark this historic milestone.  Total revenues from these events were approximately 96%, 96% and 97% of total revenues in 2018, 2017 and 2016, respectively.

 

We have hosted the Firefly Music Festival (“Firefly”) on our property in Dover, Delaware for seven consecutive years and it is scheduled to return on June 21-23, 2019. The inaugural three day festival with 40 musical acts was held in July 2012 and the 2018 event was held on June 14-17, 2018 with approximately 120 musical acts.  In September 2014, Red Frog Events LLC formed RFGV Festivals LLC - a joint venture with Goldenvoice that promotes Firefly. Goldenvoice is a company of AEG Presents, LLC, a subsidiary of Anschutz Entertainment Group, Inc. AEG Presents, one of the world’s largest presenters of live music and entertainment events, announced on July 18, 2018 that it had acquired the remainder of RFGV Festivals LLC from Red Frog.  Our amended agreement with RFGV Festivals grants them two 5 year options to extend our facility rental agreement through 2032 in exchange for a rental commitment to secure our property. In addition to the facility rental fee, we also receive a percentage of the concession sales we manage at the events.

 

Nashville Superspeedway no longer promotes motorsports events and has not entered into sanction agreements with NASCAR since 2011.  We lease the facility on a short term basis to third parties from time to time. On August 17, 2017, we entered into an agreement with an entity owned by Panattoni Development Company relative to the sale of approximately 147 acres of land at a purchase price of $35,000 per acre. On March 2, 2018, we closed on the sale of the property with proceeds, less closing costs, of $4,945,000. Net proceeds after taxes were approximately $4,150,000.  On September 1, 2017, we also awarded to the purchaser a three year option for 88.03 additional acres at a purchase price of $55,000 per acre.  On February 9, 2018, we amended the option agreement to extend its term and to add additional acreage to the option.  The option is for three years beginning March 1, 2018. An additional 86.45 acres were added to the option at a purchase price of $66,685 per acre and an additional 50.51 acres were added at a purchase price of $35,000 per acre.  The option may only be exercised for all of the 224.99 acres at one time for a total purchase price of $12,374,000.  While management remains committed to selling the remaining Nashville Superspeedway property which consists of over 1,000 acres, we do not believe it is probable that the remaining property will be sold within the next twelve months.  At December 31, 2018, $23,567,000 was reported as long term assets in our consolidated balance sheets. At December 31, 2017, $2,455,000 representing 147 acres of the total Nashville Superspeedway property was reported as assets held for sale and $23,545,000 was reported as long term assets in our consolidated balance sheets.