The mouth contains many salivary glands, some major and some minor. Salivary gland cancer occurs when one of these glands develops a cancerous tumor. There are 3 pairs of major salivary glands: The parotid glands, positioned just in front of each ear, are the largest salivary glands; they are the most likely to develop a tumor.
Well, it's a pretty ominous one: Daytona's seating capacity has dropped from 168,000 to the current 146,000. And part of the announcement today is that the entire backstretch grandstands, known as the Superstretch, will be dismantled and moved away.
So in preparing for the announcement on Tuesday that Daytona International Speedway will invest up to $400 million in a complete renovation of the main grandstands, there's little doubt that Chitwood spent as much time on the positives of that announcement as he did on steeling himself to address the negative.