HE IS BACK ; a nascar legend, Kasey Kahne Returns to NASCAR at Rockingham few minute ago….
Kasey Kahne will be driving the No. 33 Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing in the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Rockingham Speedway.
This will be Kahne’s first NASCAR race since retiring in 2018 due to health reasons.
Kahne is currently focused on dirt track racing but is open to future NASCAR races depending on how Rockingham goes.
Kasey Kahne wasn’t counting on returning to NASCAR, but he wasn’t expecting to see Rockingham put back on the schedule either.
When Kahne saw that the NASCAR Xfinity Series was returning to Rockingham Speedway on April 19 after a 21-year hiatus, it stoked some old fires for the 18-time NASCAR Cup Series winner, who retired in 2018 mainly because of health issues.
It’s been 12 years since Rockingham held a NASCAR race — a Craftsman Truck race in 2013 won by Kyle Larson. Kahne won the Truck race at Rockingham in 2012.
Since leaving NASCAR, Kahne has competed full-time on the Kubota High Limit Racing winged sprint cars series on dirt.
Rockingham just sparked something,” said Kahne, who turned 45 on April 10. “The longer I’ve been out of the sport, the more interest I’ve had in feeling the car again and having those feelings I did for so many years driving and working with the teams. Once Rockingham went on the schedule, it’s an open weekend in High Limit Racing on the sprint car side, and it just made sense to try to put something together and do the (North Carolina Education Lottery 250).”
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Kahne still had connections with Richard Childress Racing and worked out a deal to pilot the team’s third entry on the one-mile oval at Rockingham in the No. 33 Chevrolet.
Is Kasey Kahne returning to NASCAR Cup Series racing?
With his decision to run at Rockingham, the question naturally came up: Is Kahne considering a return to NASCAR in the Xfinity or Cup series on a full-time basis?
“As of now, this is just a one-off to see how it all comes together,” Kahne said. “I really enjoy racing my sprint car and that series. But yes, I pay close attention to what’s going on with the NASCAR side. I just want to see how it all goes and then decide from that point if maybe there’s another one-off or something else.”
