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UPDATE: Rockingham Speedway will host a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race, tentatively scheduled for the second weekend of April 2012, sources have told ESPN The Magazine. The announcement will be made Wednesday afternoon during a news conference at the one-mile racetrack. Last month ESPN The Magazine first reported that the Rockingham Speedway was investing in SAFER "soft wall" barriers. That news, added to closing of the Nashville Superspeedway, host of two races each in NASCAR's Camping World Trucks and Nationwide Series, immediately led to garage speculation that NASCAR might be returning. The sanctioning body will not hold a national touring series event at a racetrack that does not feature the SAFER energy-absorbing barriers. Last month track general manager Robert Ingraham said the addition of the SAFER barrier was safety driven but added: "If it looks like we are being proactive about attracting a larger event, that's not an accident." Hillenburg has kept the complex open with races from smaller non-NASCAR divisions, but openly admits that drawing crowds has been a struggle. When ARCA didn't return to "The Rock" this season it was viewed by many as a potential death blow to Rockingham's chances to lure NASCAR back. That will change in 2012.(ESPN.com)(9-2-2011)

Nothing set in stone, yet, but it looks like NASCAR's heading back to the Rock.

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could the Sprint Cup go back there?

Cup won't but let's hope nationwide does

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Sanity makes a comeback. Awesome. Now if the Nationwide series can go back there, and maybe even Cup (a 492-lap race at Rockingham would rule), that'd own.

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There are some tracks where NASCAR should be willing to take a slight dent in their profit margins just for the good of the sport and the Rock is one of them. Let's hope they don't pack up if the attendance isn't up to expectations.

If they are basing it off attendance then Fontana, Michigan, Bristol (see spring race), Atlanta, Indy and Dover should all be off the schedule.

They base the schedule off whatever the fuck Bruton Smith and Brian France want, and those two are so out of touch with reality it's ridiculous.

Rockingham is just an hour or so down the road dude. You should check it out. Im about 1 1/2 from it.

What's the best way to get there? I live off I-85 in University area.

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hwy 74 goes right to Rockingham. Its kinda like an expressway. Real easy. Ive nev er been to the track in Rockingham but Ive driven through a bunch of times.

Cool, ill have to check it out

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That is great news about the Rock.

You could build a heck of a series with defunct/non-used Cup/NNS/Truck tracks alone. Rockingham, Pikes Peak, Nazareth, Texas World Speedway, the Milwaukee Mile, Evergreen, etc...

No because eventually that would be better than NASCAR, and they would find some way to kill it off.

Yea, that would be quite awesome if that could happen. That old school racers series that never got off the ground would have been the perfect choice.

How could I forget Memphis, Gateway and the Nashville Fairgrounds?

Not to mention some of the great minor short tracks that got cut off the schedule back in 1971 like Greenville-Pickens, Bowman-Gray, Hickory etc.