Auto Club Speedway
| Information Location: Fontana, California | Track Specifics
Type: Oval | Races
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| Current Track Layout This track has been used with the permission of www.etracksonline.co.uk |
Auto Club Speedway (formerly known as "California Speedway") is a two-mile, low-banked, D-shaped oval superspeedway in Fontana, California, similar to that of "sister track" Michigan International Speedway. It is located approximately 40 miles east of Los Angeles on the site of a former steel mill. It is a relatively new race track, opening in early 1997, and has additional configurations and facilities to accommodate "road" races, motorcycle races, vehicle testing, and drag races (Auto Club Dragway), even though the track cannot host NHRA national events, because of International Speedway Corporation's corporatewide deal with Pepsi. (The NHRA has a policy prohibiting certain Pepsi brands to be advertised anywhere at their national events as part of a deal with Coca-Cola.) This racetrack is a stones throw from the old Ontario Motor Speedway and the old Riverside International Raceway. After Riverside's closure in 1988, Southern California did not host a NASCAR race from 1988 to 1997. Then California Speedway was opened, and racing was back in SoCal.
In addition to NASCAR, the raceway has also hosted open-wheel events from both ChampCar and the Indy Racing League. In 1999 Canadian driver Greg Moore was killed in a crash at the track, resulting in a major overhaul of the backstretch for safety (it was discovered Moore's car slid in the grass off Turn 2, allowing the car to overturn, and cause the fatal crash; following that, ISC, which had purchased the track, paved that section of backstretch apron in time for the 2000 NASCAR event to prevent cars from sliding in that section, and to allow for drivers to have control of the cars in an incident); in 2003 the Indy Racing League set the highest average speed for any circuit event in motorsports at the track.
In 2005, 19 year old Kyle Busch earned his first ever NASCAR Nextel Cup win at California Speedway. He is to date the youngest driver to win a race in the Nextel Cup Series.
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