NASCAR 2026: Full weekend schedule for O’Reilly Auto Parts and Truck Series at Rockingham Speedway
The 2026 NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts and Truck Series season is scheduled to be held this weekend at Rockingham Speedway. The Black’s Tire 200, the Truck Series race, will be held on Friday, April 3, at 4:30 pm ET and broadcast on FS1. Whereas the North Carolina Education Lottery 250 presented by Black’s Tire, the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series race, is set to begin on Saturday, April 4, at 2:30 pm ET.
Held in Rockingham, North Carolina, it’s going to be another blockbuster points-paying race of the 2026 NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts and Truck Series season. The 0.940-mile-long asphalt speedway features 22 degrees of banking in turns 1 & 2, 25 degrees of banking in 3 & 4, and eight degrees in the straights.
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The Rockingham Speedway hosted its O’Reilly Auto Parts race in 1982, where David Pearson won the inaugural North Carolina Education Lottery 250 presented by Black’s Tire at Rockingham. While this track hosted a truck race in 2012, where Kasey Kahne won the inaugural Black’s Tire 200.
The 39 drivers entering this week’s O’Reilly Auto Parts Series race will compete across 250 laps in 235 miles. The 38 Truck Series drivers will compete across 200 laps in 188 miles.
The 2026 NASCAR Truck Series season’s Rockingham weekend will begin with a practice session on Friday (April 3) at 11 am ET, followed by the qualifying at 12:05 pm ET and the main event on Friday. Whereas the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series will begin with a practice season on Friday (April 3) at 1:30 pm ET, and qualifying will be held at 2:35 pm ET on Saturday, before concluding the day with the 235-mile main event.
Full weekend schedule for the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts and Truck races at Rockingham Speedway
Here’s the complete practice, qualifying, and race schedule for this exciting weekend at Rockingham Speedway, as this will be the eighth official weekend of the season:
Friday, April 3, 2026
11 am ET: Truck Series practice
12:05 pm ET: Truck Series qualifying
1:30 pm ET: O’Reilly Auto Parts Series practice
2:35 pm ET: O’Reilly Auto Parts Series qualifying
4:30 pm ET: Black’s Tire 200
Saturday, April 4, 2026
9 am ET: ARCA Menards Series East Practice 2
10:05 am ET: ARCA Menards Series East qualifying
11:30 am ET: Rockingham ARCA Menards East 125
2:30 pm ET: North Carolina Education Lottery 250 Presented by Black’s Tire
4 pm ET: North Carolina Education Lottery 250 presented by Black’s Tire
Catch the adrenaline-fueled NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts and Truck Series weekend at Rockingham Speedway from April 3 to April 4.
Edited by Yash Soni