Editing Rockingham Motor Speedway (section)

==History==
Construction of Rockingham started late in 1999, with the opening meeting planned for May 2001.<ref name="Swinger"/>

Rockingham Motor Speedway was constructed on a British Steel works ''[[brownfield status|brown field]]'' site as a banked oval with the intention of bringing the American oval racing across the Atlantic for the first time. The opportunity was taken to use the infield for further circuits.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite web |url=http://www.rockingham.co.uk/about/about-rockingham.php |title=About Rockingham |access-date=1 May 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130704091136/http://www.rockingham.co.uk/about/about-rockingham.php |archive-date=4 July 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref name="Swinger"/>

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 [[Elizabeth II|the Queen]] on 26 May 2001.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>

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.<ref name=FinalRace/> The circuit was sold to Rockingham Automotive Limited, who used the facility for vehicle storage and logistics.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-56104281|title=Rockingham: Ex-racetrack used to store thousands of vehicles|work=BBC News |date=18 February 2021 |publisher=BBC|access-date=25 August 2022}}</ref> In mid-2021, Constellation Automotive who own brands such as Cinch, and We Buy Any Car purchased the site.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cardealermagazine.co.uk/publish/bca-and-cinch-owner-buys-up-rockingham-motor-speedway/225902|title=BCA and Cinch owner buys up Rockingham Motor Speedway|date=14 June 2021 |publisher=Car Dealer Magazine|access-date=25 August 2022}}</ref>

Since then, Constellation Automotive's online car sales brand, [[Cinch (company)|Cinch]], has used the circuit to film YouTube content,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/cinch|title=Cinch YouTube channel|publisher=YouTube.com|access-date=21 June 2023}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://fastestlaps.com/tracks/rockingham-national|title=Rockingham National lap times|publisher=FastestLaps.com|access-date=21 June 2023}}</ref>