Rockingham, NC – Kasey Kahne led to the interior tunnel of Rockingham Speedway, and of course, its best NASCAR 75 drivers have always worked. “Super simple,” said the 44-year-old veteran, his access for pre-season tests granted.
Kahne went around, going around the inner field on Tuesday morning while the 1.017 Mile track was prepared. He will make his first start in the national series Nascar since 2018, when the XFINITY series returns to Rockingham in the spring, but to be back in a car garage in stock did not seem to have disappeared.
“Lots of familiar faces. It didn’t seem like that I was not here for six years, I know it, “Kahne said in the Rockingham media center. “Even just hanging out in the trailer, behind the trailer for the first half hour, time this morning while waiting to start, it was just quite normal. It didn’t feel too different. So, I suppose that when you essentially put your whole life in the race and the NASCAR for many years preceding it, then 16 years in sport, to take a little time and come back, it always seems quite familiar. “”
Kahne and the rest of the list of the XFINITY series will be back for the NC Education Lottery 250 on April 19 (4 p.m. HE, CW, Radio MRN, Siriusxm NASCAR RADIO), marking the first national-turnover of NASCAR since 2013 . The Xfinity teams Will Will Will Share the weekend with the Craftsman Truck series, which will run Black’s shoots 200 on April 18 (5 p.m., FS1, Radio MRN, Siriusxm Nascar Radio). The two series alternated the 45 -minute training sessions during the Tuesday organizational test, which will affect Wednesday due to the drying needs of the tracks that rubbed the test time in the morning.
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Kahne was a winner during the brief revival of Rockingham of two years ago almost a decade, dominant in the return race of the Truck series here in 2012. He kept his hand in the race since his last departure Nascar, manager A team of successful and increasing sprint cars and increasing their participation on the driving side. He said he had stayed in touch with some of his contacts from the Nascar world, and the Rockingham date in the 2025 calendar stung his interest in finding a journey.
This opportunity took place with last week announcement That Kahne will lead the Chevrolet n ° 33, a third entry of race Richard Childress, in the event of 250 laps.
“I saw this Rockingham race appear, and I said to myself:” Dude, it’s a song I know, and I liked running over the years “, so I started handing my hand and Trying to understand a way to go back to this and race, “said Kahne. “It was like four or five years maybe since I had run, and it’s more like six and a half years, that’s what they had said, so it’s been a while.”
His departure from the CUP series list was sudden, to come with 11 races to play in the 2018 campaign. But Kahne said that racing requests at the Nascar’s big leagues every week had made a physical toll progressive that rose while its last season has slipped.
“The reason it was time was that my body just told me that it was time,” said Kahne, who won 18 times in a cup standard career that started in 2004. “My dehydration was so bad When I arrived at the central part of the year. The races for the next two or three days, even in the next race, we could simply not understand it, I could not repair it. To end. Much watched since, and I’m just happy to have the opportunity to do this race in April.
What remains to be seen is Kahne Go Rockingham is a single-off. When asked if another opportunity for the Cup series or another NASCAR level could be in the cards, Kahne covered, keeping the accent on the 1 mile of Renaissance in front of him.
“I don’t know. I just want to do this race, work with this group,” said Kahne. “It was really cool and went together very quickly, but they gave me an excellent opportunity and a lot of very good Persons at RCR.
