Followers have been wanting ahead to the return of racing at Rockingham Speedway since NASCAR introduced the 2025 schedule final yr. Friday night time’s Truck Sequence occasion marks the primary time a NASCAR nationwide touring sequence will run at The Rock since 2013 when the vehicles final raced on the mile-long observe. Previous to that, the observe performed host to the Cup Sequence from 1965 to 2004.
With the Truck and Xfinity Sequence returning to the North Carolina Sandhills in 2025, there’s understandably hope that Cup drivers is likely to be making a return to the observe within the close to future.
On Friday, Fox coated the primary laps on the observe with the vehicles working follow and qualifying. Followers observed a change in the beginning of the community’s broadcast earlier than the vehicles began turning laps when Jamie Little, Michael Waltrip and visitor analyst Carson Hocevar weren’t broadcasting from the observe, however in entrance of a financial institution of televisions remotely from the studio.
An in depth view of a FOX Sports activities broadcast digital camera at Folsom Subject.Andrew Wevers/Getty Photos
“FOX commentators aren’t even at Rockingham,” wrote one fan. “Bruh”
“i hate fox a lot…..” one other responded to the information.
“First time this yr,” one other fan talked about. “Additionally first time vehicles not with cup. Would anticipate as soon as fox is not doing cup then all truck races are at studio.”
FOX commentators aren’t even at RockinghamBruh
— Skid (@WhoisSkid) April 18, 2025
“It’s about 80 miles from Charlotte,” one fan famous.
“[expletive] brutal,” an upset fan mentioned.
“Wow, what an absence of effort,” one other fan wrote. “@NASCAR The [expletive] storm is absolutely piling up.”
It’s onerous to argue with the sentiment of the annoyed followers. After years of not racing and now lastly returning to the historic venue, the community tasked with masking the Vehicles couldn’t spend slightly more money and ship its broadcast crew to cowl NASCAR’s much-anticipated return to the power, which is positioned, as one fan famous, slightly over an hour’s drive away.
NASCAR expects followers to indicate up on the observe. It should not be an excessive amount of to anticipate the printed crew to do the identical.
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