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Rockingham Motor Speedway
Rockingham Motor Speedway was a motorsport racing venue in Rockingham, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom, near the town of Corby. The venue currently sits unused due to private ownership by Constellation Automotive. It hosted professional and club races, as well as testing, track days, driver training, exhibitions and conferences. The speedway claimed to be Europe's fastest racing circuit, and was the first banked oval constructed in Britain since the closure of Brooklands in 1939.
The venue entered administration in 2017 and hosted its final motor race in November 2018. In 2021, the facility was purchased by Constellation Automotive for £80 million.
Construction of Rockingham started late in 1999, with the opening meeting planned for May 2001.
Rockingham Motor Speedway was constructed on a British Steel works brown field site known as the Deene Iron Ore Quarry which gave the facility its original name of Deene Raceway. The Speedway was built as a banked oval with the intention of bringing the American oval racing, both NASCAR Stock Cars and the CART Indycars, across the Atlantic for the first time. The opportunity was also taken to use the vast infield to build a combination of road circuits (most as Rovals using parts of the Speedway) aimed at both national and international use.
After almost ten years of planning and 23 months of construction work, Rockingham opened for business on Monday 15 January 2001. It was formally opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 26 May 2001.
After the sale of the venue, Rockingham held a "super send-off" to mark its final day as a racing circuit on 24 November 2018. The circuit was sold to Rockingham Automotive Limited, who used the facility for vehicle storage and logistics. In mid-2021, Constellation Automotive, who own brands such as Cinch and We Buy Any Car, purchased the site.
Since then, Constellation Automotive's online car sales brand, Cinch, has used the circuit to film YouTube content, including car reviews and lap time challenges, titled on its channel as 'Fast Laps'. Cinch Motoring Editor, Sam Sheehan, has driven cars ranging from the Hyundai i20N hot hatch to a road-legal track car produced by Spartan Motor Company.
Sheehan used the Spartan to set an overall lap record for Rockingham's National Circuit on 26 May 2023, beating the previous fastest time of 1:14.20, set by a Palmer Jaguar JP1 prototype, by five-hundredths of a second.
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Rockingham Motor Speedway
Rockingham Motor Speedway was a motorsport racing venue in Rockingham, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom, near the town of Corby. The venue currently sits unused due to private ownership by Constellation Automotive. It hosted professional and club races, as well as testing, track days, driver training, exhibitions and conferences. The speedway claimed to be Europe's fastest racing circuit, and was the first banked oval constructed in Britain since the closure of Brooklands in 1939.
The venue entered administration in 2017 and hosted its final motor race in November 2018. In 2021, the facility was purchased by Constellation Automotive for £80 million.
Construction of Rockingham started late in 1999, with the opening meeting planned for May 2001.
Rockingham Motor Speedway was constructed on a British Steel works brown field site known as the Deene Iron Ore Quarry which gave the facility its original name of Deene Raceway. The Speedway was built as a banked oval with the intention of bringing the American oval racing, both NASCAR Stock Cars and the CART Indycars, across the Atlantic for the first time. The opportunity was also taken to use the vast infield to build a combination of road circuits (most as Rovals using parts of the Speedway) aimed at both national and international use.
After almost ten years of planning and 23 months of construction work, Rockingham opened for business on Monday 15 January 2001. It was formally opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 26 May 2001.
After the sale of the venue, Rockingham held a "super send-off" to mark its final day as a racing circuit on 24 November 2018. The circuit was sold to Rockingham Automotive Limited, who used the facility for vehicle storage and logistics. In mid-2021, Constellation Automotive, who own brands such as Cinch and We Buy Any Car, purchased the site.
Since then, Constellation Automotive's online car sales brand, Cinch, has used the circuit to film YouTube content, including car reviews and lap time challenges, titled on its channel as 'Fast Laps'. Cinch Motoring Editor, Sam Sheehan, has driven cars ranging from the Hyundai i20N hot hatch to a road-legal track car produced by Spartan Motor Company.
Sheehan used the Spartan to set an overall lap record for Rockingham's National Circuit on 26 May 2023, beating the previous fastest time of 1:14.20, set by a Palmer Jaguar JP1 prototype, by five-hundredths of a second.
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