LAS VEGAS -- Bruton Smith has money to spend and he's looking to buy Las Vegas Motor Speedway a second NASCAR Nextel Cup race date.

Worth an estimated $1.4 billion, the chief executive officer of Speedway Motorsports Inc. anticipates it would cost "upwards of $200 million, maybe $250 million" to get Las Vegas that second date.

"What we need is to buy a speedway, and I hope someday somebody will give me a phone call," Smith said Friday before unveiling plans for a 127-unit luxury condominium that will be built outside the track's turn 1.

Smith says he has no pending deal, but adds that people know "that I'm there and they know that I'm willing and that we can write a check."

Other than Vegas, his company owns Cup race venues Lowe's Motor Speedway, Texas Motor Speedway, Atlanta Motor Speedway, Bristol Motor Speedway and Infineon Raceway.

Smith said he wouldn't move a race date from one of his tracks to give Las Vegas a second race. He got a second race date for Texas after purchasing one of Rockingham's dates for $100.4 million in May 2004.

Leading the way

Greg Biffle won his second career pole Friday with a lap of 172.403 mph. Biffle's only other pole came at the 2004 Daytona 500. Behind Biffle is Tony Stewart at 172.068 mph with defending race winner Jimmie Johnson third (171.597 mph). Kyle Busch (171.423) and Kasey Kahne (171.054) complete the top five.

Jeff Gordon starts 13th with Dale Earnhardt Jr. 42nd.

Staying put

Humpy Wheeler, president of Lowe's Motor Speedway, said the selection of Charlotte to host the NASCAR Hall of Fame should help the track keep the all-star race.

There is the idea that Charlotte might lose the all-star race, which has been there 21 of its 22 years, since the city got the Hall of Fame. Wheeler doesn't believe that.

"I think it will help us because that would be a great week to do inductions because everybody will be there," he said. "As long as we keep putting people in the grandstands and getting good TV ratings we're going to be OK."

Goodyear test

The repaving at Lowe's Motor Speedway is expected to be finished this weekend.

Goodyear has scheduled a tire test there March 28 and 29. Scheduled to test are Ken Schrader, Kevin Harvick, Scott Riggs and Bobby Labonte, along with Bobby Hamilton in his Craftsman Truck.

Movie news

The Disney-backed movie on Richard Petty is on again and filming could start this fall or early spring 2007, said Bill Scott of Petty Enterprises. The movie was expected to be filmed in either 2004 or 2005, but that changed after the script was rejected.

Scott said the script has been rewritten, and movie officials are revising it. Scott said actor Dennis Quaid is scheduled to play Lee Petty.

Crowd control

An FBI directive stated that a posting on an extremist message board "advocated suicide attacks against sporting events as a cost-effective means of killing thousands of Americans," according to an ABC News report. The ABC report also states that the government does not believe there is an imminent threat.

Sunday's Cup race is expected to draw more than 130,000 fans, making it the largest concentration of Americans at a single sporting event that day.

A NASCAR spokesman touts the series security as "some of the best security in sports." NASCAR's head of security is a former secret service officer.