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Rockingham Speedway and Entertainment Complex (formerly known as North Carolina Speedway from 1998 to 2007 and North Carolina Motor Speedway from 1965 to 1996) is a 1.017-mile (1.637 km) D-shaped oval track in Rockingham, North Carolina, United States.
Rockingham was announced to receive about $9 million of that sum. The racetrack, per Lovenheim, received approximately $3 million of that sum initially. That money was used to repave the venue’s ...
NASCAR Xfinity Series at Rockingham Speedway; NASCAR Xfinity Series; Venue: Rockingham Speedway: Location: Richmond County, North Carolina, United States: First race: 1982: Distance: 200.3 miles (322.4 km) Laps: 197: Previous names: Coca-Cola 200 (1982–1983) Komfort Koach 200 (1984–1985) Protecta-Liner 200 (1986) Goodwrench 200 (1988–1995 ...
Curtis Smith was born in Clinton, North Carolina.His father, Earl, was a notable drag racer, racing with Chevrolet from 1957 to his retirement in 2003. Smith attended races with his father from a young age, often getting the chance to warm his father's race cars up before the races. [2]
On May 4, 2008, the ARCA RE/MAX Series raced at Rockingham in the Carolina 500 and again in 2009. Also in 2008, the USAR Hooters Procup Series had their final race of the season at the Rockingham Speedway, in a race called the American 200 (named in honor of the name for the first race run at the Rock in 1965, the American 500) on November 1, 2008.
On September 2, 2011, NASCAR announced that Rockingham Speedway would hold a Camping World Truck Series event for the 2012 season. [3] During the inaugural race, Nelson Piquet Jr. started on the pole position and Kasey Kahne won the race. [2] [4] In 2013, the race went for 205 laps instead of 200 laps because of green-white-checkered rules.
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series at Rockingham Speedway in 2012 During the inaugural race, Charlie Glotzbach led 285 laps out of 295 to win ahead of Charlie Blanton , who was two laps down. Before the race, only 13 cars were able to qualify before rain moved into the area, causing the remainder of the grid lined up according to sign-in time at ...
Venue City/Town Tenant/Use Capacity Miscellaneous Charlotte Motor Speedway: Concord: Oval racing, Road racing: 94,000-170,000 [1]: North Wilkesboro Speedway: North Wilkesboro