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Finally, NASCAR racing has returned to one of the historic tracks in North Carolina where it all began:  The Rock, located just outside of Rockingham, will be home an all new NASCAR race beginning this fall.  The race will be named the Good Sam Roadside Assistance 200.

“We’ve been working hard on getting bigger events to improve the speedway since the first day I was in that office,” track owner Andy Hillenburg said. “This was a community effort. Our staff here at the speedway, NASCAR, all of the city and county and state officials … all of it needed to fall into the right place at the right time in order for this to be possible.”

Wayne Auton, director of the Camping World Truck Series, said Hillenburg was dedicated and aggressive in his pursuit of a NASCAR-sanctioned event from the day he bought the track, which had not seen NASCAR events since 2004.  ”He told me personally the first day he bought the track that eventually he was going to need to do this to put on bigger-type races.”