Could the Cup Series compete at Rockingham Speedway?
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[Bob] Sargent is the president and CEO of Track Enterprises, one of the leading race promoter companies in the country. Sargent was approached by NASCAR last year to help ready the racetrack for Rockingham‘s big return to the Truck Series and Xfinity Series schedules, and he handled the communications between the facility and the sanctioning body.
After Saturday‘s race, he said he spoke with all the stakeholders of the weekend‘s festivities and only heard positive responses. That included the Truck Series race Friday and the sold-out Xfinity Series race Saturday.
"I‘m pretty hands on, so I talked to them from Thursday night, when we got here, to all day today," Sargent told The Observer. "Talked to a lot of different people at NASCAR, whether they were here or weren‘t here. Mike Helton was here yesterday, and I talked to people on the phone today. And the teams that were here, we talked to them a lot.
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When asked if he thought the weekend proved that Rockingham Speedway was deserving of being back on the Cup schedule, he offered nuance.
"Yes, absolutely, with the caveat that NASCAR is a big, worldwide entity, and when you look at dates, there are only so many," he said. "There are only so many geographic regions and things like that. So there are many factors that go into when dates get put where. So it‘s not a magic wand.
"But I feel comfortable, and am not saying anything out of line that, yes, we did everything we needed to do."
He added: "It‘s a process. But we are on the radar. We are in that process."
