If Smith moves Lowe's will NASCAR follow?

It seems like Bruton Smith is in a heated fight with the Concord City Council.  They voted against the proposed drag strip that Smith wanted to build near the speedway.  The biggest problem for Smith is that they had already had workers out grading the land for this strip before the vote, now he's pissed.

Smith told Eyewitness News he is already looking for plots of land in the Charlotte area. He said he’ll close Lowe’s and build a new speedway and his own airport so that race car drivers will easily be able to fly in and out of town. Concord doesn’t look like it’s going to be a place for him to grow, he said, so if city leaders don’t change their minds, he will take his business and go.

Smith will have to take the city to court in order for the decision to be reversed. He wants Concord to undo an annexation, which made the speedway, and the land around it that had been zoned for motorsports, part of the city limits. “Either they go, or we go,” he said. Eyewitness News contacted the mayor of Concord and told him what Smith had to say. He said he had no comment.  All of this according to wsoctv.com

Now, I understand him wanting to expand and everything, but one, he shouldn't have started work beforehand and two, he can't force a city to bow to him.  I guess he figures he has enough power to make them change things, the question is, does he?

Then we bring NASCAR into the equation, no they aren't involved in any of this, other than they run races at Lowe's.  If Smith moves Lowe's, will NASCAR follow or will they just move those races to another track or tracks?  There's been no comment on this by NASCAR that I've seen, but it will be interesting to see what they do in light of this, if anything.

Your thoughts?