More pain at the pump as the price of gasoline continues to escalate.

Overnight, the national average for a gallon of regular unleaded gas hit a new record high at $4.08. In Nevada, we're paying $4.25 per gallon.

Many drivers are concerned that the price of gas will continue to rise and impact their holiday weekend travels. Since the last Fourth of July, the price of gas has increased by more than a dollar per gallon.

The high gas prices... // KVBC

ISC, which operates race tracks in several states including the home of the Daytona 500 in Florida, competes with Speedway Motorsports. The France family owns 67% of ISC's voting stock and also owns NASCAR.

Bad news for tracks is a June government report that showed Americans reduced the number of miles they drove for the sixth month in April, resulting in the biggest six-month decline since the oil shock of the 1979-80 Iranian revolution.

NASCAR's advantage is its ability to sell each race as a unique event that many fans even build vacations around.

"If you're a fan and make the decision to go to Talladega or MIS or Richmond, you definitely make those plans like other families would to go to Disneyland," said Roger Curtis, president of the Michigan International Speedway in... // USA Today