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Percent of gross broadcast rights fees for broadcast rights fees allocated to each NASCAR Sprint Cup, Nationwide or Camping World Truck series event that is paid to NASCAR from the event promoter for prize money to be disbursed to the competitors.

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Percentage of Gross Broadcast Rights Revenue Retained

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Percentage Of Ownership Interests

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Expenses recognized resulting from transactions (excluding transactions that are eliminated in consolidated or combined financial statements) with related party.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Amount of revenue, fees and commissions earned from transactions between (a) a parent company and its subsidiaries; (b) subsidiaries of a common parent; (c) an entity and trusts for the benefit of employees, for example, but not limited to, pension and profit-sharing trusts that are managed by or under the trusteeship of the entity's management; (d) an entity and its principal, owners, management, or members of their immediate families; and (e) affiliates.

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