DVD Dover Motorsports Inc

DOVER, Del., Aug. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Dover Motorsports, Inc. (NYSE:DVD) today commenced its previously announced tender offer to purchase up to 1,706,543 shares of its Common Stock and up to 2,323,019 shares of its Class A Common Stock at a fixed price of $7.00 per share. The number of shares proposed to be purchased in the tender offer represents approximately 10% of the company's shares outstanding. Based on the closing price of the Company's Common Stock of $5.86 per share on the New York Stock Exchange on August 4, 2005, the last trading day before the tender offer was announced, the offer represents a premium of 19%. The offer and withdrawal rights will expire at 5:00 P.M., New York City time, on Thursday, September 8, 2005, unless extended. The Company expects to pay for tendered shares with available cash on hand and amounts borrowed under the Company's unsecured revolving credit facility, as recently amended. The Company's Board of Directors has authorized this tender offer as a prudent use of financial resources given the Company's business, assets and current stock price, and an efficient means to provide value to stockholders. The offer represents an opportunity for the Company to return cash to stockholders who elect to tender their shares while at the same time increasing non-tendering stockholders' proportional interest in the Company. Neither the Company nor its Board of Directors, dealer manager, depositary or information agent is making any recommendation to stockholders as to whether to tender or refrain from tendering their shares into the tender offer. Stockholders must decide how many shares they will tender, if any. The Dealer Manager for the tender offer is Raymond James & Associates, Inc. Mellon Investor Services LLC is the Information Agent and Depositary. ___________________ This release contains or may contain forward-looking statements based on management's beliefs and assumptions. Such statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause results to vary materially. Please refer to the Company's SEC filings for a discussion of such factors. Dover Motorsports, Inc. is a leading promoter of motorsports events in the United States. Its motorsports subsidiaries operate four motorsports tracks in three states and promote motorsports events under the auspices of three of the premier sanctioning bodies in motorsports - NASCAR, IRL and NHRA. The Company owns and operates Dover International Speedway in Dover, Delaware; Nashville Superspeedway near Nashville, Tennessee; Gateway International Raceway near St. Louis, Missouri; and Memphis Motorsports Park in Memphis, Tennessee. This press release is for informational purpose only and is not an offer to buy or the solicitation of an offer to sell any shares of the Company's Common Stock or Class A Common Stock. The solicitation of offers to buy Dover Motorsports Common Stock and Class A Common Stock will only be made pursuant to the Offer to Purchase and related materials that the Company is sending to its stockholders. Stockholders should read those materials carefully because they will contain important information, including the various terms and conditions of the offer. Stockholders will be able to obtain copies of the Offer to Purchase, related materials filed by the Company as part of the statement on Schedule TO and other documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission through the Commission's Internet address at http://www.sec.gov/ without charge. Stockholders will also be able to obtain copies of the Offer to Purchase and related materials, as filed with the Commission (excluding exhibits), without charge from the Company or by written or oral request directed to the Information Agent, Mellon Investor Services LLC, 85 Challenger Road, Ridgefield Park, New Jersey 07660, telephone number 1-866-293-6625. DATASOURCE: Dover Motorsports, Inc. CONTACT: Patrick J. Bagley, Senior Vice President-Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Dover Motorsports, Inc., +1-302-857-3745 Web site: http://www.dovermotorsportsinc.com/

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