Did NBC have Muslims knocking on these doors?

NY Times:

The sound of automobile traffic was deafening. Inside Jim and Muriel Dollar's two-bedroom penthouse condominium here, a party was going on, and the guests leaned in close in their theater-style leather chairs to make themselves heard, their drinks set in cup holders that occasionally vibrated ever so slightly.

But no one seemed to mind the noise or the tremors. In fact, some had binoculars in their hands to get a close-up view of what was going on nine stories below. That was because the apartment's floor-to-ceiling windows looked directly onto the racetrack of the Atlanta Motor Speedway, where cars were roaring by at speeds up to 190 miles per hour.

"It's the best seat in the house," said Mr. Dollar, 65, the president of a concrete construction company in Norcross, Ga., gazing out at the jet-black oval on a recent Saturday. Anyone who doubts that the traditionally blue-collar sport of Nascar has gone upscale need look no further.

The Dollars are among the dedicated fans who have forsaken the track infield — the home of tricked-out R.V.'s, makeshift barbecue pits and parking spaces passed down from generation to generation — to root for Jimmie Johnson or Dale Earnhardt Jr. from the plush confines of apartments that, in some cases, cost $1 million or more.

The Dollars said they paid $500,000 for their condo when they bought it about eight years ago.

There have been condos at Nascar tracks for several years, but it is only recently that the market for those second homes has become almost as active as that of a hot New York City neighborhood.

The building pace is accelerating, prices for some condos have more than tripled, and now — with Las Vegas getting into the act — the number of Nascar condos around the country is expected to almost double in the next few years.

In March, Speedway Motorsports Inc. announced plans to build 120 units at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway at prices ranging from $600,000 for a one-bedroom condo to $4.5 million for a three-bedroom penthouse. At three other tracks it owns — the Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., the Atlanta Motor Speedway and the Texas Motor Speedway near Fort Worth — the company has built a total of 174 condo units in the past couple of decades.

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