 For
those of you who are in a committed relationship with your
race car, what better place to celebrate Valentine’s
Day than Rockingham Dragway. The track
opens its gates for the first time in the new year on February
14 to host the initial event in the 2015 Rock Solid Test-and-Tune
Series.
“I
know it’s not where you might usually celebrate Valentine’s
Day, but why not?” asked track owner Steve
Earwood. “Most racers love their wives, their
girlfriends, their kids and their cars and where else can
you get them all together?” Gates open at 10 a.m.
with unlimited timed runs until 6 p.m. Admission is $10,
$25 for car and driver for unlimited time runs. The Rock
Solid Test-and-Tune Series, open to all vehicles, is one
of the staples of the Rockingham program along with the
track’s NHRA Summit Racing Bracket Series and the
Phantasm Motorsports Street Wars Series.
The
track won’t officially open until Sunday, Feb. 22
when it will host the first “True Outlaw Street Drags”
program, open to street driven vehicles only, followed the
following weekend (Feb. 28-March 1) when it stages its annual
Free Entry Racers Appreciation Shootout. That event will
feature free entry for all racers with $2,000-to-win purses
in Top ET, $1,000 in Footbrake and $150 in Jr. Dragster.
 In
other Rockingham news, ATI Performance Products
will sponsor the Pro Tree Doorslammers class and both of
the Civil Wars events hosted by the track, the first on
May 1-3 and the second Oct. 30-Nov. 1. In addition, ATI
Performance Products signage will be prominent on the walkover
bridge that spans the staging lanes as well as on the starting
line guard-walls. “Rockingham Dragway’s support
of grassroots racing, from the weekly bracket program to
the Civil Wars events, gives our customers a place to develop
their skills and their race cars,” said ATI’s
COO, J.C. Beattie Jr. “We’re
pleased to be able to lend our support.”
“ATI
has always tested its transmissions, torque converters and
driveline components under the toughest conditions,”
Earwood said, "and that’s in competition. We
welcome their continued support and we know that our racers
will support them in return, as they always have."
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