Oh, this is good. This is so perfectly, wonderfully good. NASCAR, which has no hang-ups about changing the racin’ rules mid-season or mid-race even, is changing the rules of its deal with its good partner, the city of Charlotte.

Recall that the city got all happy this spring about giving NASCAR honcho Brian France a $154 million welfare payment so that NASCAR would build its Hall of Fame in Uptown. Well, the details of that deal showed that France and NASCAR were risking exactly nothing in this partnership while getting virtually all of the benefit.

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Whoa!

Benefits like a city-subsidized office tower. The city agreed to be on the hook for helping for pay for the tower’s parking and now, surprise!, that number seems to be growing. It is evidently not enough that the 19-story tower is getting $11 million in city help for parking, leaving some $8 million for NASCAR and its developer to pay. Reading between the lines, watch for the city’s share to grow even more.

Then we have out-in-the-open discussion about the possibility that the Hall itself may never get built or that NASCAR might just sell the office tower and move on.

Crazy talk? Not really. Not considering that all along the Hall of Fame has been a cover-story, a front for the drive to expand the city-owned Convention Center. The tower could still supply the 40,000-foot ballroom the Convention Center expansion has sought for some time, the supposed feature that it lacks and keeps it from turning a profit for the city.

Sure, the city would look stupid for awhile and be stuck with one of the highest hotel-motel taxes on the East Coast paying for an office building, but the Convention Center would be bigger, right? And it is not exactly been a horror show reaction to the South Blvd. light rail fiasco; I mean no one has been fired or resigned in disgrace, right? Local taxpayers may not really care about losing a half-billion there, or $150 million here.

And NASCAR, it’d just pick up with Atlanta or Kansas City and say, “On second thought, we’d like a Hall of Fame here.” And those cities would jump at the chance. That is a very remote possibility. But that it is a possibility at all shows you just what a horrible deal Charlotte struck with NASCAR and how local taxpayers with be paying for it for decades.