Replete with a three-story race control building, a timing stand, sprawling stadium-view grandstands, a multitude of garages and a press center — all structures will have a throwback World War II airfield theme — the facility will host a full schedule in 2006.

Details — including which sanctioning bodies intend to bring races to the track, with SCCA and even IRL among the possibilities — will come during a Sept. 7 open-to-the-public presentation at the Delta Center.

"Combined with our reputation and our ability to do what we're going to do when we say we're going to do it, we've got at least four national races coming next year — which shouldn't have happened until '08, if not '09," Miller said. "We're really pleased with that. There's a lot of talk out there about this track, a lot of excitement — not just locally but on a national basis."

"The Salt Lake Super Track is not your ordinary track," Wilson, who will serve as the track's general manager, said last February. "I've built 20 racetracks in the U.S. and around the world, and this is the one I want to put my name on and have as my legacy."

For Miller, the project really is one of the heart.

It's not often, after all, that an entrepreneur with a portfolio like his is less concerned with the bottom line than he is an opportunity to meld a personal playground with a place where others with similar interests can simply have fun.

"If you consider capital investment as well as operations," Miller said, "there's no way it will make money."

Collecting Cobras is not about moneymaking, either.

Rather, it's pure love.

Like others in his select company, Miller can rattle off the series numbers of his Cobras as if they were his wife's cell-phone number.

"They all start with CSX, which is Carroll Shelby Export," Miller said. "Almost all. There's asterisks all over the place, because there was not a true production line. They just made a car in this stall, and another team built another car in the next stall.

"The point is all Cobra owners know the serial number. Small blocks are four-digit and start with 2. So that first racer . . . is CSX2002."

The first Cobra — Shelby kept it — is CSX2000, initially painted pearlescent yellow and then supposedly repainted whenever a different magazine wanted to take a picture. But it wasn't the first Cobra racer. CSX2002, a Sebring Roadster, was. It's the one that debuted at Riverside, with Krause driving. And Miller owns it, purchased at auction.

The license plate on the car is 1STRCR — first racer.

Three of Miller's Cobras are dubbed Sebrings, including one recently bought at auction for $2 million. The so-called "first racer" is housed at the Shelby American Collection in Boulder, Colo., along with other Miller-owned cars.