Rockingham Speedway

So bringing home-

... another win from Caraway Speedway this past week.

He decided to do victory lane behind victory lane.

I believe that's in Kansas, right? Topeka.

Milan Dragway, Empire Dragway, Gallo Motorsports Park, Piedmont Dragway, Rockingham Speedway, yes, the oval track, Dragway 42, Kill Care, National Trail, Memphis Motorsports Park, and Virginia Motorsports Park, all the IHRA properties that they had purchased this past year.

Let's see.

What do we got? Any news for which ones stay, which ones go? I'm not sure.

Oh, yeah.

I forgot all about that.

They said Bob Parker says that for those wanting to buy Rockingham Speedway, FYI, and many other tracks under the IHRA banner have listings.

It's at this website, transon.com. Let's see.

You're right.

Rockingham Speedway, not the drag strip.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's good to be here.

Well, it, you know, it's, we've been trying to get you on the show, um, just to kinda catch up and, you know, you've, you, you ran Rockingham and, and we always follow the High Limit Sprint Car stuff.

And, and then you blow us out of the water with, uh, you're, you're gonna come back truck racing.

So tell us, tell us the plans for next year.

And then you look at Spire with the kind of the evolution of, of the team and, and they have their truck piece of it, and it's been successful with, with the things that they've, that they've done on the track.

Where, where...

I know that the conversation spurred the interest, but obviously we saw you in the car at Rockingham last year.

You did very well and, and, you know, you'd, like you say, you've been out of it for a while.

I was

awful at Rockingham.

Awful.

And I finally got me a top five the last race there.

Yeah.

No.

I remember we were at Rockingham one day, and Jeff Gordon and him were battling.

I think it was my rookie year.

I mean, I was high on him early in the year, right? I, I actually was I think calling for him to be in the, the mix for winning a lot of these races, but jumped out of the blocks with a 29th, 22nd, 22nd.

Had a couple of good days at Rockingham and, and, uh, Darlington with a seventh and fifth, but then jumped to 27th at Bristol.

32nd at Texas, 33rd at Watkins Glen.

So he's had decent enough stretches where he's looked okay, but overall this hasn't been a competing for a top five each and every week type of a run from the nine car, which like I said, it just...

Uh, in this series this season, he's got an 11th place finish at, at Daytona, 17th at North Wilkesboro, 12th at Richmond, and then had suspension problems at Bristol in the last race and couldn't finish there.

But, you know, 12th place at r- at Bristol, he lives close to top 10s when he can get there.

So, but this truck, you know, finished eighth at IRP, uh, won at Michigan with Corey Haim behind it, seventh at Charlotte with Brandon Jones, sixth at Dover with Brandon Jones, seventh at Watkins Glen with Brent Crews, won at Rockingham with Corey Haim, fifth at Atlanta with Corey Haim.

I mean, I know these guys are much better drivers than Nick Lights in and of itself, but this truck, again, has the pedigree to be a top 10 truck.

I think I came down to Charlotte.

I think I came to Rockingham.

And when I say help out, maybe I would help out with the tire car, but didn't have a uniform, wasn't really working for Junior Johnson and Associates, but was always with the team.

That's kind of first how I got my start with Junior.

And so then weekends off, I'd hop in my little blue S 10 that I still own.

It's got 475,000 miles on it and drive to the racetrack.

And at the time, you know, you had Rockingham, Darlington, Martinsville, Talladega, you know, being in North Carolina, I was sort of centrally located.

I could go to a lot of the races right there.