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Rockingham Track to Be Sold
Jun 21, 2007
The North Carolina Speedway in Rockingham will be put up for auction later this year, Speedway Motorsports Inc. confirmed on Thursday.
Jerry Gappens of SMI said the auction should take place sometime in December.
The track has not hosted a NASCAR Nextel Cup race since February 2004.
Speedway Motorsports Inc., whose chairman is Bruton Smith, owns tracks in Concord; Atlanta; Fort Worth, Texas; Bristol, Tenn.; Las Vegas; and Sonoma, Calif.
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Posted Jun 22, 10:23 a.m.
Rank: Towel Boy Posts: 0
Joined: May, 2007
Location: Pico Rivera, CA
Who cares about tracks closing. Its a waste of space anyway.
Posted Jun 22, 9:36 a.m.
Rank: Pro Posts: 115
Joined: Mar, 2007
Location: Morrisville, NC
lucky22 is right, I have family in Hamlet, the area is dying. You go from Pinehurst to Rockingham----2 different worlds.
Of course NASCAR has changed -- the fans have changed. How many of the folks that bemoan the fall of NASCAR are still going out to the short tracks to watch the Friday or Saturday night races? Or the Busch or truck races? The fun racin'! No, the fans aren't coming out anymore. We're used to turning on the TV to get our thrills, not getting sweaty and dusty cheering on our local drivers at the track on hot summer evenings. So don't grumble about the smaller tracks getting closed. They don't have enough "gate" to pay the winners.
Posted Jun 22, 8:43 a.m.
Rank: Towel Boy Posts: 0
Joined: Jun, 2007
Location: Greenville, NC
Lucky 22...sitting on a bare concrete grandstand in February....they didn't call that place the Rock for nothing!!
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