TC Daily Pit Stop: Rockingham Returns to Truck, Xfinity Schedules; Playoff Clinch Scenarios; 2025 Schedules

TC Daily Pit Stop: Friday, August 30, 2024

Aug 30, 2024

It’s just about time to go racing for the NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR Xfinity Series at Darlington Raceway! Unfortunately, there is no on-track activity from the track ‘Too Tough to Tame’ on Friday, but we’ll have a full day of action on Saturday!

Rockingham Speedway to Host Xfinity, Truck Series Events on Easter Weekend

For the first time in more than a decade, NASCAR is bringing its National Series back to the iconic one-mile Rockingham Speedway, for a NASCAR Xfinity Series and NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series two-day show on Easter Weekend.

The NASCAR Truck Series will return for the first time since 2013 on Friday, April 18th, while the NASCAR Xfinity Series ends a two-decade absence with its return on Saturday, April 19th.

NASCAR Cup Series Playoff Clinch Scenarios: Cook Out Southern 500 at Darlington

The NASCAR Cup Series is heading to Darlington Raceway this weekend for the final race of the regular-season. Martin Truex, Jr., Ty Gibbs, and Chris Buescher are above the cutline, while Bubba Wallace and Ross Chastain are in need of wonderful performances to lock into the Playoffs.

2025 NASCAR National Series Schedules Revealed!

The 2025 NASCAR Cup Series schedule will feature Bowman Gray Stadium as the host of The Clash, an Easter Weekend off week, an International race in Watkins Glen, and the addition of Darlington, Gateway, and New Hampshire into the Playoffs. Click here for full schedule.
The 2025 NASCAR Xfinity Series schedule will feature the first NXS event at Rockingham Speedway since the 2004 season as the Xfinity Series will run there on Easter Weekend. Richmond Raceway will also not host an Xfinity race next year. Click here for full schedule.
The 2025 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series schedule will see an increase in events from 23 to 25 next season. The two major additions to the season will be an Easter weekend event at Rockingham and the first-ever series race at Lime Rock Park. Click here for full schedule.

ICYMI NASCAR Headlines:

Richard Childress Racing, Jesse Love Land Partnership with Samsara: Jesse Love and Richard Childress Racing will have Samsara, a video-based safety, vehicle telematics, and equipment monitoring solutions company, on-board the No. 2 Chevrolet in the NASCAR Xfinity Series event at Atlanta in September.
Parker Retzlaff Didn’t Mean to Cost Busch, Chevrolet; Was Trying to Win: Parker Retzlaff has faced scrutiny for pushing a member of the Ford Performance family to Victory Lane, rather than a fellow Chevrolet. However, the full-time NASCAR Xfinity Series driver says he just wanted to score the victory himself.

NASCAR Trivia

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This driver has never won a championship in the NASCAR Cup Series.
This driver has won both a NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR K&N Pro Series East event at Rockingham, as well.
This driver has won in each of NASCAR’s National Series.