Auto Club Speedway
Auto Club Speedway (2 miles, intermediate, D-shaped) in Fontana, California
The 2-mile oval, the construction of Roger Penske funded with 100 million dollars, was opened in 1997, then as the California Speedway. Two years later, Penske sold the route to the NASCAR-owned International Speedway Corporation (ISC). The Oval has a banking of 14 degrees and are all less than 4 ° bends the sister track in Michigan. The flat layout contributes to the bad reputation among other things, the California Speedway: In addition to an opportunity to increase the banking to 23 degrees, which would however require the use of air restrictors, the possibility existed for a long time, the race to 400 miles to shorten what would later was also implemented.
Many drivers and fans were the race distance was too long, since it hardly comes to yellow flags, which pulls apart the field quickly. 2010, the Chase races, which a year earlier moved into October, shortened by 100 miles. Since 2011, Fontana only an annual date in the Cup calendar, which is run in the spring, too, only about 400 miles. The spectator capacity of 92,000 was only tapped before, but because of the Speedway, the Los Angeles Basin served, he is still so attractive for NASCAR: Many sponsors representatives and celebrities are regularly in the race at the track. Since opening the year at Fontana Auto Club Speedway on which his new name was adopted in the past year because of a sponsorship agreement, drove NASCAR. This is one of the oval tracks in the recent Cup calendar.
