{"id":19879,"date":"2019-03-07T17:37:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T22:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=19879"},"modified":"2019-03-07T17:37:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T22:37:38","slug":"rockingham-to-be-entertainment-center-racing-could-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/03\/07\/rockingham-to-be-entertainment-center-racing-could-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockingham to be entertainment center, racing could return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/03\/img_0507.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19877\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/03\/img_0507.jpg 640w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/03\/img_0507-594x394.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/03\/img_0507-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rockingham Speedway is coming back.<\/p>\n<p>The speedway would come back as an entertainment complex as North Carolina Governor Ray Cooper detailed in a long-term budget though 2021.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 15px 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">About $8 million would go to upgrading the Speedway, its grounds and Rockingham Dragway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 15px 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">Money would be used for wastewater and water extension, a pedestrian bridge, replacement, facility upgrade, bathrooms and grandstand repairs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 15px 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">The budget requires that for every $3 that the state invests, there must be an additional $1 non-state match to round out the funding for the overall $11.45 million project. That non-state match will likely come from a variety of sources including Speedway owner Dan Lovenheim, who purchased the facility last year from BK Rock Holdings, Dragway owner Steve Earwood, and Richmond and Moore counties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 15px 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/03\/img_0506.jpg\" class=\"size-full\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 15px 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">The last major on-track action at &#8220;The Rock&#8221; occurred in 2012 when a NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 15px 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">Already planned is a three-day music festival over Mother Day weekend, May 10-12. <span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"> Bands expected to perform are <\/span><\/span>Foo Fighters, Judas Priest, Korn, Evanescence, Tool, Bush and Rob Zombie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rockingham Speedway is coming back. The speedway would come back as an entertainment complex as North Carolina Governor Ray Cooper detailed in a long-term budget though 2021. About $8 million would go to upgrading the Speedway, its grounds and Rockingham Dragway. Money would be used for wastewater and water extension, a pedestrian bridge, replacement, facility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[789,708,1052],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":["post-19879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cup-series","category-nascar-topstory","category-news","tag-front","tag-nascar","tag-rockingham-speedway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19879"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=19879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}