Auto Club Speedway, originally opened as California Speedway , is a two-mile (3.2 km), low-banked, D-shaped oval superspeedway in Fontana, California, which has hosted NASCAR racing annually since 1997. It was also previously used for open wheel racing events.
One more query we ran across in our research was “What is the track length at Auto Club Speedway?”.
The track length is disputed by CART and NASCAR that run at Auto Club Speedway. The NASCAR timing and scoring use a length of exactly 2.000 miles (3.219 km).
News surfaced in September 2020 that NASCAR had proposed massive renovations to the two-mile track in Southern California. The plan at the time was to convert Auto Club Speedway into a half-mile short track with high-banked corners like Bristol Motor Speedway while simultaneously focusing on upgraded suites and hospitality areas .
NASCAR plans to completely reconfigure the two-mile Auto Club Speedway in California into a short track for the 2022 season. The Athletic first reported the story Tuesday, which Motorsport. Com later independently confirmed with NASCAR.
When I was writing we ran into the query “Auto club speedway fontana will be shortened?”.
Fontana, California’s Auto Club Speedway will be transformed into a half-mile short track beginning next season. The Athletic first reported the plans. NASCAR did not offer additional information, but confirmed it has submitted site plans to San Bernardino County for a remodeling of the existing infrastructure.
Will speedway become 7 11?
But now, Speedway itself is being gobbled up. Its owner, Marathon Petroleum, has agreed to sell the chain to the owner of 7-Eleven, creating a gas station giant. All 4,000 Speedway stations will soon become 7-Eleven gas stations . That means Slurpees will soon replace Speedy Freezes.
It will take until 2022 to “finalize” how resources of Enon-based Speedway will be dealt with at 7-Eleven, a media representative told this newspaper. “We are still working hard to finalize details for the future of the organization and expect this process to last well into 2022.
7-Eleven: Decisions on Speedway will take until 2022 .
This begs the query “Does 7-Eleven’s acquisition of Speedway violate antitrust law?”
The antitrust authority claims that 7-Eleven’s acquisition of convenience store chain Speedway violates Section VII of the Clayton Act and Section V of the FTC Act.
How did California Speedway get its name?
The track was named the California Speedway from the time it was built through February 21, 2008 when the Southern California Automobile Club (Auto Club) purchased the naming rights in a 10-year deal; thus the track became Auto Club Speedway.