NASCAR’s return to Rockingham Speedway final weekend was an enormous success. Not solely did followers promote out the over 25,000-seat venue, viewers at house have been equally excited for the race.
Based on , Saturday’s Xfinity Sequence race drew 1.053 million viewers, the second finest viewership for an Xfinity race at Rockingham ever.
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All ten Xfinity Sequence races this 12 months have topped 1 million viewers, marking a milestone for the sequence and signaling the success of The CW’s broadcast.
With NASCAR’s triumphant return to The Rock, many have referred to as for the Cup Sequence to return to the observe within the close to future. The final Cup Sequence race on the speedway was in 2004.
Entrance to Rockingham SpeedwayAlexandra Lange – Athlon Sports activities
Based on Bob Sargent, president and CEO of Observe Enterprises, a return to the Rock is “on the radar.”
Sargent after the race and was requested in regards to the probability of Rockingham returning to the Cup schedule.
“Sure, completely, with the caveat that NASCAR is a giant, worldwide entity, and if you take a look at dates, there are solely so many,” he stated. “There are solely so many geographic areas and issues like that. So there are various components that go into when dates get put the place. So it’s not a magic wand. “However I really feel snug, and am not saying something out of line that, sure, we did every thing we wanted to do.
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“It’s a course of. However we’re on the radar. We’re in that course of.”
Whereas it stays to be seen if and after we’ll see Cup racing return to the Rock, there’s little question that NASCAR’s return final weekend was particular.
