# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bruton-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:39:32.143Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bruton-smith"
name: "Bruton Smith"
slug: "bruton-smith"
description: "Ollen Bruton Smith was an American motorsports executive and businessman. He was best known as the owner of two public companies, Speedway Motorsports, Inc. (SMI) and Sonic Automotive. Smith held the positions of vice president and general manager of the Charlotte Motor Speedway and later was the chief executive officer (CEO) of both Speedway Motorsports and Sonic Automotive. He was an entrepreneur, race promoter, and businessman during the rise of stock car racing that began in the 1950s."
tagline: "Promoter and owner of NASCAR track (1927–2022)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Executives"
  slug: "executives"
profileType:
  name: "Executive"
  slug: "executive"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1927-03-03"
deathDate: "2022-06-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.88
  momentum:             6.785942492012779
  historical:           4.694572
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 88
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9453123/"
    handle:    "nm9453123"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB"
    title: "بروتون سميث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruton_Smith"
    title: "Bruton Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruton_Smith"
    title: "Bruton Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruton_Smith"
    title: "Bruton Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruton_Smith"
    title: "Bruton Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q994733"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump