Rockingham 500 will go ahead as planned
Following Wednesday's announcement that the EuroSpeedway Lausitz track will not host a German round of the FedEx CART series this year, David Grace - the Chief Executive of Rockingham Motor Speedway - pledged that the British race will go ahead as planned on September 14, despite the company having to pay the entire travel costs for the 18 cars, which was previously shared between the two venues.
"I feel very sorry for all the team at EuroSpeedway Lausitz," said Grace. "I know from our own experience just how hard they will have worked to try to make the race a success. It is a tragedy that the German government officials were unable to offer financial support to this a world-class event. On the brighter side, as the sole venue in Europe this year, for the fastest racing in the world, we are already making plans with CART and EuroSpeedway to be able to welcome many of the German race fans to Rockingham instead."
Last year over 42,000 fans witnessed the fastest race in Europe around the 1.5-mile oval near Corby and the signs are that there will be a similarly strong presence at the track this year. Over half the seats in one of the track's biggest grandstands were allocated in the past fortnight alone and less than a dozen of the track's 58 corporate hospitality suites are remaining.
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