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| Description | Crazy history of this Superspeedway, projected by Penske Inc., started a long time ago. On this ground here was a steel factory, Kaiser Steel. After this became insolvent, in 1983 the ground was excavated and it was used as post apocalyptic movie set for Terminator. Then the ground was bought by Roger Penske. In 1995 construction of the track started and two years later they were finished. Total expense was approx. 100 million US Dollar of the time. The facility has a two-miles D-shape oval, with some infield courses for motorcycles and cars. It can hosts 92100 spectators. It was opened on June 1997 with a Winston Cup event. This category hadn’t any event in Southern California since Riverside was closed, in 1988. Since 1999 the circuit has been owned by ISC (International Speedway Corporation). In the last CART event of the same year, Greg Moore was killed: at 9th lap, sliding maybe on some wet grass thrown on the track, Moore lose the control and the car crashed on internal protection wall at more than 320 km/h - 200 mph. Due to high speed and wet infield grass that didn’t slow the car, Reynard crashed hardly, killing immediately the young Canadian driver. Later it was determined that main cause was insufficient drainage of wet grass, so in February 2000 ISC paved back stretch infield. Later nearly all ovals and many European circuit did the same. It hosted IRL/Indycar from 2002 to 2005 and since 2004 it has hosted 2 NASCAR events every year. In 2006 it lost Indycar event: it seems that it was not possible to schedule it as NASCAR event was too close. On February 21st 2008 the circuit was officially renamed Auto Club Speedway of Southern California. In the parking area of the circuit a kart track has been built, CalSpeed Karting Center.
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| Location | Fontana CA - California - Western States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | 9300 Cherry Ave, Fontana, CA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Latitude - Longitude | + 34°05'18" -117°30'03" 34.088333 -117.500833 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UTM Coordinates | X = 453796.867 - Y = 3772063.416 - Zone 11S | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Aerial photo / Map (*) |  OpenStreetMap - Google Maps - Bing Maps - Flash Earth - Wikimapia - Microsoft Research Maps - MapQuest | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Altitude AMSL | 342 m - 1122 ft | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inauguration | June 20th 1997 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Auto Club Speedway (ex California Speedway) | |||||
| Description | |||||
| Years | |||||
| Direction |  Anticlockwise | ||||
 Proposal |
NO | ||||
| No longer operational | |||||
| Car Circuit | YES | ||||
| Motorbike circuit | |||||
| Type | Oval course | ||||
| Inauguration | June 20th 1997 | ||||
| Closing | |||||
| Last update of this page | December 9th 2009 | ||||
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| Distinctive points | |||||
| length | 3219 m | 10560 ft | 2 mi | (5) | |
| Width | 22.9 m | 75 ft | |||
| Max. banking (bends) | 14 ° | 24.9 % | (5) | ||
| Total area | 230 hectares | 2298639 m² | 568 acres | ||
| Banking | 11 ° | 19.4 % | Start finish straight | (5) | |
| Banking | 3 ° | 5.2 % | Opposite straight | (5) | |
| Auto Competition Road Course | |||||
| Description | |||||
| Years | |||||
| Direction | Anticlockwise | ||||
| Proposal |
NO | ||||
| No longer operational | |||||
| Car Circuit | YES | ||||
| Motorbike circuit | |||||
| Type | Permanent | ||||
| Inauguration | June 20th 1997 | ||||
| Closing | |||||
| Last update of this page | December 9th 2009 | ||||
| Info last update | |||||
| Designer | |||||
| Distinctive points | |||||
| length | 4506 m | 14784 ft | 2.8 mi | (2) | |
| length | 4635 m | 15206 ft | 2.88 mi | (5) | |
| Width | 22.9 m | 75 ft | |||
| Max. banking (bends) | 14 ° | 24.9 % | (5) | ||
| Max. banking (straights) | 3 ° | 5.2 % | (5) | ||
| Banking | 11 ° | 19.4 % | Start finish straight | (5) | |
| Moto Competition Road Course | |||||
| Description | |||||
| Years | |||||
| Direction | Anticlockwise | ||||
| Proposal |
NO | ||||
| No longer operational | |||||
| Car Circuit | |||||
| Motorbike circuit | YES | ||||
| Type | Permanent | ||||
| Inauguration | June 20th 1997 | ||||
| Closing | |||||
| Last update of this page | December 9th 2009 | ||||
| Info last update | |||||
| Designer | |||||
| Distinctive points | |||||
| length | 3798 m | 12460 ft | 2.36 mi | (2) | |
| length | 4635 m | 15206 ft | 2.88 mi | (5) | |
| Width | 22.9 m | 75 ft | |||
| Max. banking (bends) | 14 ° | 24.9 % | (5) | ||
| Banking | 11 ° | 19.4 % | Start finish straight | (5) | |
| Interior Road Course Map | |||||
| Description | |||||
| Years | |||||
| Direction | Anticlockwise | ||||
| Proposal |
NO | ||||
| No longer operational | |||||
| Car Circuit | |||||
| Motorbike circuit | |||||
| Type | Permanent | ||||
| Inauguration | June 20th 1997 | ||||
| Closing | |||||
| Last update of this page | December 9th 2009 | ||||
| Info last update | |||||
| Designer | |||||
| Distinctive points | |||||
| length | 2414 m | 7920 ft | 1.5 mi | (2) | |
| length | 2494 m | 8184 ft | 1.55 mi | (5) | |
| Updates | |||||||
| Date | Track layout | Years | Description by | Map by | Thanks to | Note | |
| December 9th 2009 | Guido de Carli | Roelard Smit | Roelard Smit | ||||
| June 21st 2007 | Lorenzo Tommasi | Update | Description | ||||
| June 10th 2007 | Guido de Carli | Update | Description | ||||
| August 7th 2002 | Guido de Carli | Update | Description | ||||
| Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list | |||||||
