8:43 Long Beach would at least be a better idea for a street race than Chicago (especially when Chicago is replacing what could've become a great new tradition with Road America).
The California property is too expensive and just worth too much to dedicate it to a couple of races a year. It makes sense is smaller cities where the real estate is not so expensive.
@@DeeB1345 good races at auto club were rare. You’re entitled to your own opinion but short tracks are way better than the first 15 years after a repave would be.
People have really bad recency bias. Auto club sucked forever, it had a couple recently great races everyone wants to save it. I remember it being on the same level of distaste as New Hampshire and Texas motor, the only reason I think New Hampshire doesn’t get more hate so because nobody even watches that race and average view count for that part of the season is always at it slowest
@@danielchai6145 Yes, there are enthusiasts and fans. And fans like excitement. They may change one day. Even casual fans will start feeling empty after a close, manufactured overtime finish every other week.
I honestly like what NASCAR is doing for once. Since the repave would come sooner rather than later, which would ruin the racing, NASCAR is thinking ahead and trying to not repeat past mistakes. After all, CS is basically the same as MIS, which sucked after its own repave.
The left coast could care less about NASCAR. They should think twice about dropping another penny out there. Don't care for the clash either, cars are too big for a small track like that. They can always fly in their jets to Vegas.
People forget it would take 10 years for the pavement to get to a good point where racing is close to how it is now and any bumps or imperfections would be smoothed and paved out. It just doesn’t make long term sense from financial/racing standpoint to simply repave and if you need proof look at what happened to Michigan if you’re old enough to remember how it changed after it’s repave.
It's funny how north Wilkesboro was dropped a season before the first ever run on California race .. and the tables are turned to cally is getting shut down for the new layout but the Wilks being brought back the same year for the all star.. ironic
They could build a Bristol like track just north of the existing track. Run tunnels connecting the infields. Use the big track for garage and rig parking.
@John Haas I heard Eric incorrectly. I thought Nascar bought more land! It was the opposite! Sorry California, could be a while before Nascar returns. You guys in Callie are always welcome here in Phoenix!
Land value is the name of the game in California. Ontario Motor Speedway was demolished for commercial development, Riverside was demolished for commercial development and some of the property at Fontana is currently being eyed for development of residential housing/commercial businesses. The new development craze in Southern California is construction along the Metrolink rail. They can build cheaper in Fontana and the residents can ride the train into LA for work.
@@shaynejenkins446 yea, I just left the track and had a long conversation with some people. It’s going to be industrial buildings. Talks of off site parking if the new track even happens. My opinion, I don’t see this happening. It either stays like it is or they end moving to a new location. To many moving parts in this mess. The buying group north and east of track is owned by Ross Perot?
@@TM_Rags Nascar and the ISC have already sold off the property it wont be developing. Its already scheduled for demo and reconfiguration next year in time for the 2025 season.
At this point it without a date to expect it to be open it seems most likely it is just going to be demo'd and nothing is going to be built. If the short track does get built unless they change a lot with the short track package it is going to bust and be closed anyway
Third annual "Last Race" for Fontana. BTW, "an hour" out of LA, can be 3 blocks 'cause traffic there sucks. Elon needs to build a tunnel from LA to Fontana.
2:00 Eric, I have a rule with Monster Energy cars, and I think it will come in handy for you in the future. *Expect NOTHING*. Monster Energy does not like having any designs on their cars and will fight to make sure their cars are matte black and they will not deviate from it. And no, the eye does not save the car. it sucks and Monster needs to let the designers cut loose with what they can do.
25 years ago, Fontana used to have four or five events per year (Truck series, Busch/Xfinity, Cup, IRL, sometimes other events like ARCA). Now it's pretty much just one weekend per year. At one event per year, a sold out event doesn't make enough money to cover the value of the land all around the track. That's why we're seeing it torn down, 80% sold off, and a short track taking its place.
NASCAR should ditch Fontana completely and try to build the proposed short track somewhere else in Southern California. Preferably, within 20 minutes of Los Angeles.
@@johnhaas2523 potty mouth. How about you find me and try to make that happen. Note: NASCAR doesn't own all the tracks, how you rotate on a member California boy toy 🖕
@@johnhaas2523 didn’t mean to offend you Mr. Serious. I just want them too. It’s my hometown track and I went to my first races there. Do I think it will happen, no. But would I like it to, yes. As for why they would, because they make far dumber decisions all the time. I do hope I have not offended you further.
I think they want short tracks outside of the area they are at currently. They are all located pretty close together and with money being short for the average person those 6 races are starting to suffer in attendance. I'd love to see short tracks in other locations
May i ask something? only one thing has been consistent over the last 20 years and thats fans wanting more short tracks... why do yall think this is stupid? Because a decent track is being converted to one? im excited for the new layout looks interesting if it comes to fruition. Yall also hate Bristol Dirt randomly?... maybe a top 10 race this past year? yall confuse me.
This is the best quote about LA "Los Angeles is not a sports town. Los Angeles is an Entertainment town." Phily, St. Louis, Cleveland, those are sports towns.
Fontucky is in a good location, just under an hour from My house in the inland empire. It's like in the middle of the inland empire so we all gotta drive a little bit. When I lived in Monrovia CA, I could hear the cars on the track from my house. Irwindale speedway is definitely an awesome track
We went to the races this past weekend. I know it's anecdotal, but as we were leaving the gate personnel were saying to people, "See you in 2025!" I think the 2/3 or 3/4 high banked configuration could be a good one. Iriwindale is a pretty good idea, tho.
I heard somewhere that Angel Stadium was vacant. Maybe completely knock down ACS and build a new track in Anaheim? I feel that in the middle on the configuration someone like Amazon is going to buy the rest of that land and there will be no more ACS
I'm going to be honest. Auto Club should've never been built. Ever. The location was an absolute ignorant place to build it. I'm all for removing it entirely from the schedule and replacing it with a race such as North Wilkesboro, or Rockingham, or Nashville Fairgrounds.
Other than Bakersfield, most residents in California live a cosmopolitan lifestyle. NASCAR doesn't even factor in as a sport to these people. Wonder why you see the usual same actresses and actors that attend a race? NASCAR might as well build a track in Hawaii or Alaska, because there isn't much of a fanbase there either.
The problem with the location is la just isnt into racing like it used to. NHRA races at pamona and it used to be packed now it's less then half full when they go there. Theres just to much going on besides racing to do.
As long time fans of Auto Club Speedway we are so disappointed in the possible change to yet another short track. There won't be any big tracks like this ever built again and we can't believe the shortsightedness of NASCAR to get rid of this one. Having experience in dealing with the State and local governments in the LA region, it is safe to say that Auto Club will never reopen. Remember, this is a State that will prohibit the sale of gas powered vehicles by 2030.
Yea but you realize that doesn't mean gas powered cars stop existing in 2031 right? They're doing that because they understand most of those cars will be in use until 2050 at least.
@@joshuapowers4623 The State has already prohibited the sales of a variety of lawn and garden equipment as well prohibiting the sale of certain size ATV/UTV engines. They also are not approving new fuel stations. I'm pretty sure any car sold today will not make it to 2050😁
If they reconfigure I say Make it a short track race on a Saturday Night in California sounds pretty good to be some bumping and banging under the lights
As I have said other places..ironic that Auto Clubs final race, in it's current configuration, will also be Harvick's final race at his home track in his final season. Fitting.
People complaining about an hours drive for a nascar race are lazy and cringe. My nearest track is a 3 hour+ drive once I've gotten done parking and I'm actually walking towards the track... I'd LOVE to have a race an hour away. Seriously, just strait laziness.
Auto Club Speedway could continue on IF they could get other compatible uses for the facility..... The valuation of the property cries out for a larger return.....
I think they should turn Auto Club into a short track. The corners should be shaped like Martinsville, but with 30 degree + banking. Make it a 3/4 mile track with a dogleg in the front stretch.
This is pretty much nascar these days, just double down on bad ideas. Every interview that I see with either Ben Kennedy or Steve Phelps leaves me with the feeling that these guys just have no plans or vision for the future of the sport, they just jump from one dumb gimmick to another.
My only gripe is that unless we fix the short track package all these swings won’t last. The product needs to be good to warrant the change. So fine add more short tracks but the package for the cars needs to be fixed.
The question is what's going to prevent the people who move into the real estate that will be built when they turn Auto Club into a short track to eventually want the short track gone
That's what happened at Pomona drag strip. They built homes across the street from the end of the track and now there's a curfew for the races because people complained of noise coming from a track that stood 25 years before the homes were even built.
The short track config is definitely going to befall the same fate as literally every other short track that’s in a populated area. People will build houses next to it then complain about the noise until the city shuts it down.
There is too many pollutants in the ground around the speedway for that. That’s why they were able to acquire the land and build the track for cheap in the 90s
I wonder what it would be like if they built houses over the northeast section of the track where Greg Moore was killed. Will they put a plaque in the kids bedroom where it happened? I was there that day.
Just throwing it out there, but NWS is getting safer barriers and a rehab. I get the lack of seating, but could this pave the way to bringing the Cup Series back there for a points paying race?? Don't forget about Rockingham as well.
I don't think a SINGLE FAN saw the rumors of the reconfiguration and jumped for joy. This decision baffled me when it was first rumored, and it still bafdles me now.
If nascar wants a track in Ca. Come build up in Sacramento. Wheatland 45 minutes north has hard rock casino and a amphitheater. BMR is based out of Roseville. Huge dirt track presence and Roseville has a alpha track owned by a team owner in trucks.
I like autoclub. It was never a track that was any good on TV. But in person it was a great race. Not to mention, the infield road course. I attended a lot of other smaller road course races there. California has a massive motorsports culture and autoclub was a motorsports playground. SCCA were regular visitors there. There was a good drag strip, go-cart tracks, and autocrosses. There was always some type of racing going on there every weekend.
This is an outside the box theory for replacing Auto Club in 2024: what if the cup series went to Portland? They got a footing with Xfinity with a large turnout. If Xfinity can get a big turnout, surely the cup series can do the same if not more.
They need to simplify the west end of Portland's track for nascar(the east section is ideal though). Cars are way too bulky and cumbersome for 145° turns. There's a reason Watkins Glen is the golden standard, everything is relatively fast and sweeping, and it's ideal for glorified physical speed tanks to roar around I do like the more road courses idea but they need to be more custom to nascar sensibilities not the ones they are going to. Portland was not built with nascar in mind whatsoever
Their problem is there isn't enough roundy round fans in the area they only have a couple short tracks in the area and when you have to give a lot of the tickets away as promotion just to get a lot of people in the stands and there is way more stuff to do than go sit in the sun and watch cars go in circles sell the property and build somewhere else
I liken it to trying to shoehorn something in an area where it just won't work. it would probably make more sense for them to go race at willow springs.
Plenty of nascar fans in the west. There isn't a single nascar short track west of the Mississippi and the clash doesn't count. Nobody was getting into races for free, Nascar isn't a charity.
Ontario racetrack was only a few exits down the road from Fontana and was basically the same track now it is houses and shopping centers that's probably going to be the fate of the Fontana track because it is a huge Trucking town and they need the room
Do you think the Auto Club Short Track conversion will still happen?
Uhhhhh ... somehow, uh. Don't think so!!
Really hope not. Bring those plans down to Texas Motor Speedway!
The new investment wouldn't be worth it for that extremely watered down sports market just like you pointed out. Plus, the racing is great!
I fear it goes the way of Ontario and Riverside
No. I think Fontana is destined for the dumpster unfortunately. Thanks for the promo code for the magazine! Ordered mine today!
8:43 Long Beach would at least be a better idea for a street race than Chicago (especially when Chicago is replacing what could've become a great new tradition with Road America).
Irwindale is already sold and will be demolished in the next couple of year too...
Got mine ordered! Thank you!
No matter what you think about Auto Club, it's a thousand times better than that joke at the Collesuem
Hahaha, I loved the "Breaking News" segment, awesome job!!!
The California property is too expensive and just worth too much to dedicate it to a couple of races a year. It makes sense is smaller cities where the real estate is not so expensive.
7:38 NOTE: I forgot that Irwindale Speedway was sold not that long ago, but from what I could it still may be a year or longer until the track closes.
Irwindale has been sold like 8 million times. I’ll believe it when I see it 😅😂
The current owner has no plans to close the facility.
MUST GO TO IRWINDALE AGAIN!!! ( buys tickets and wastes money )
At least Irwindale is surrounded with open sand and gravel pits which makes it not very desirable for developers
I think nascar is doing well without a sponsor.
This will be last race period it's hard to believe but California wants to get rid of gas power autos including race cars
I’m gonna miss this og track😢
You wouldn’t rather side by side racing at 90 instead of 190? Haha. Short tracks are a joke now.
@@DeeB1345 good races at auto club were rare. You’re entitled to your own opinion but short tracks are way better than the first 15 years after a repave would be.
People have really bad recency bias. Auto club sucked forever, it had a couple recently great races everyone wants to save it. I remember it being on the same level of distaste as New Hampshire and Texas motor, the only reason I think New Hampshire doesn’t get more hate so because nobody even watches that race and average view count for that part of the season is always at it slowest
@@danielchai6145 Yes, there are enthusiasts and fans. And fans like excitement. They may change one day. Even casual fans will start feeling empty after a close, manufactured overtime finish every other week.
I honestly like what NASCAR is doing for once. Since the repave would come sooner rather than later, which would ruin the racing, NASCAR is thinking ahead and trying to not repeat past mistakes. After all, CS is basically the same as MIS, which sucked after its own repave.
There may not be any race Sunday if the weather doesn't stabilize a bit.
The left coast could care less about NASCAR. They should think twice about dropping another penny out there. Don't care for the clash either, cars are too big for a small track like that. They can always fly in their jets to Vegas.
People forget it would take 10 years for the pavement to get to a good point where racing is close to how it is now and any bumps or imperfections would be smoothed and paved out. It just doesn’t make long term sense from financial/racing standpoint to simply repave and if you need proof look at what happened to Michigan if you’re old enough to remember how it changed after it’s repave.
It's funny how north Wilkesboro was dropped a season before the first ever run on California race .. and the tables are turned to cally is getting shut down for the new layout but the Wilks being brought back the same year for the all star.. ironic
They could build a Bristol like track just north of the existing track. Run tunnels connecting the infields. Use the big track for garage and rig parking.
@John Haas I heard Eric incorrectly. I thought Nascar bought more land! It was the opposite! Sorry California, could be a while before Nascar returns. You guys in Callie are always welcome here in Phoenix!
NASCAR should go to Irwindale!! It's way closer to LA and is an already proven short track that would easily sell out with additional grand stands
They should just leave it alone.
Land value is the name of the game in California. Ontario Motor Speedway was demolished for commercial development, Riverside was demolished for commercial development and some of the property at Fontana is currently being eyed for development of residential housing/commercial businesses. The new development craze in Southern California is construction along the Metrolink rail. They can build cheaper in Fontana and the residents can ride the train into LA for work.
Its only industrial zoned. there will be no homes.
@@shaynejenkins446 yea, I just left the track and had a long conversation with some people. It’s going to be industrial buildings. Talks of off site parking if the new track even happens. My opinion, I don’t see this happening. It either stays like it is or they end moving to a new location. To many moving parts in this mess. The buying group north and east of track is owned by Ross Perot?
@@TM_Rags Nascar and the ISC have already sold off the property it wont be developing. Its already scheduled for demo and reconfiguration next year in time for the 2025 season.
At this point it without a date to expect it to be open it seems most likely it is just going to be demo'd and nothing is going to be built. If the short track does get built unless they change a lot with the short track package it is going to bust and be closed anyway
Yep, I think that the writing is on the wall
They have already said it will be ready for the 2025 season. Its scheduled for demo after this race.
@@shaynejenkins446 they only said it won't be ready for 2024 that doesn't mean it will be ready for 2025
Third annual "Last Race" for Fontana. BTW, "an hour" out of LA, can be 3 blocks 'cause traffic there sucks. Elon needs to build a tunnel from LA to Fontana.
They are gonna tear down AutoClub and move that race to the Coliseum.
@@johnhaas2523 You laugh, but it would be EXACTLY the kind of idiocy NASCAR would cook up.
2:00 Eric, I have a rule with Monster Energy cars, and I think it will come in handy for you in the future. *Expect NOTHING*. Monster Energy does not like having any designs on their cars and will fight to make sure their cars are matte black and they will not deviate from it.
And no, the eye does not save the car. it sucks and Monster needs to let the designers cut loose with what they can do.
At least maybe we'll be able to tell his car from Ty Gibbs'.
Grate video
25 years ago, Fontana used to have four or five events per year (Truck series, Busch/Xfinity, Cup, IRL, sometimes other events like ARCA). Now it's pretty much just one weekend per year. At one event per year, a sold out event doesn't make enough money to cover the value of the land all around the track. That's why we're seeing it torn down, 80% sold off, and a short track taking its place.
The Long Beach idea could be another nascar/indycars combo weekend
NASCAR should ditch Fontana completely and try to build the proposed short track somewhere else in Southern California. Preferably, within 20 minutes of Los Angeles.
544 million reasons why this is the last race ever in Fontana
Good. That'll make room in the same schedule date for Rockingham.
@@johnhaas2523 potty mouth. How about you find me and try to make that happen. Note: NASCAR doesn't own all the tracks, how you rotate on a member California boy toy 🖕
I say they bulldoze the entire lot and build warehouses. Give that race slot to The Rock
@@johnhaas2523 use the profits from selling the property Auto Club Speedway sits on to buy Rockingham.
@@johnhaas2523 didn’t mean to offend you Mr. Serious. I just want them too. It’s my hometown track and I went to my first races there. Do I think it will happen, no. But would I like it to, yes.
As for why they would, because they make far dumber decisions all the time. I do hope I have not offended you further.
@Eric Estepp the Long Beach street circuit has very tight last turn (turn 11) and in a gen 7 NASCAR stock car you be going like 10mph.
What do you think Eric Estepp?
I live 80 minutes away from Auto Club and turning it into a short track is a stupid idea
I think they want short tracks outside of the area they are at currently. They are all located pretty close together and with money being short for the average person those 6 races are starting to suffer in attendance. I'd love to see short tracks in other locations
May i ask something? only one thing has been consistent over the last 20 years and thats fans wanting more short tracks... why do yall think this is stupid? Because a decent track is being converted to one? im excited for the new layout looks interesting if it comes to fruition. Yall also hate Bristol Dirt randomly?... maybe a top 10 race this past year? yall confuse me.
@@namlat2886Well some of us hated bristol dirt from the start, I am one of them.
Its time for a short track to be in the west. Auto club hasn't had good racing in years. Its just a cookie cutter
Lol yeah 3 years ago, if it hasn't happened by now it won't, I bet this track will be gone completely
This is the best quote about LA "Los Angeles is not a sports town. Los Angeles is an Entertainment town." Phily, St. Louis, Cleveland, those are sports towns.
That suarez helmet my god.. teases me every episode
Long time California Nascar fan
On a Friday, Fontana is two hours outside of LA, plus there’s not much else out there.
Please come to my home town track of Irwindale in 2024!!!! I think the cup cars would do well. Only problem is we’re to park the fan cars.
Brutal no shipping to Canada for the magazine
The monster wrap should have like holographic reptile scales on it.
Fontucky is in a good location, just under an hour from My house in the inland empire. It's like in the middle of the inland empire so we all gotta drive a little bit. When I lived in Monrovia CA, I could hear the cars on the track from my house. Irwindale speedway is definitely an awesome track
On race day, fontana is 3 hours from downtown Los Angeles. indycar at least uses long beach which is actually an hour from LA.
every time i typed a thought that came to mind, you would address it and i'd have to delete my commenmt.. hahaha im not taking this one down.
Looking at Tyler Reddick's car makes me think of Kurt Busch
They should just make it into a super speedway repave the road like Atlanta
Long Beach would be interesting.
damn my childhood track is going away i grew up 15 minutes east of there
We went to the races this past weekend. I know it's anecdotal, but as we were leaving the gate personnel were saying to people, "See you in 2025!"
I think the 2/3 or 3/4 high banked configuration could be a good one. Iriwindale is a pretty good idea, tho.
I heard somewhere that Angel Stadium was vacant. Maybe completely knock down ACS and build a new track in Anaheim? I feel that in the middle on the configuration someone like Amazon is going to buy the rest of that land and there will be no more ACS
Most underrated comment right here!! Eric pin this
I'm going to be honest. Auto Club should've never been built. Ever. The location was an absolute ignorant place to build it. I'm all for removing it entirely from the schedule and replacing it with a race such as North Wilkesboro, or Rockingham, or Nashville Fairgrounds.
Other than Bakersfield, most residents in California live a cosmopolitan lifestyle. NASCAR doesn't even factor in as a sport to these people. Wonder why you see the usual same actresses and actors that attend a race? NASCAR might as well build a track in Hawaii or Alaska, because there isn't much of a fanbase there either.
The problem with the location is la just isnt into racing like it used to. NHRA races at pamona and it used to be packed now it's less then half full when they go there. Theres just to much going on besides racing to do.
As long time fans of Auto Club Speedway we are so disappointed in the possible change to yet another short track. There won't be any big tracks like this ever built again and we can't believe the shortsightedness of NASCAR to get rid of this one. Having experience in dealing with the State and local governments in the LA region, it is safe to say that Auto Club will never reopen. Remember, this is a State that will prohibit the sale of gas powered vehicles by 2030.
Yea but you realize that doesn't mean gas powered cars stop existing in 2031 right? They're doing that because they understand most of those cars will be in use until 2050 at least.
@@joshuapowers4623 The State has already prohibited the sales of a variety of lawn and garden equipment as well prohibiting the sale of certain size ATV/UTV engines. They also are not approving new fuel stations. I'm pretty sure any car sold today will not make it to 2050😁
@@derekbrummett9239 Punch Gayvin Newsome in the dick for me.
not to mention if it will need to be repaved in a few years anyways, why don’t we at least wait until then to do this
@Blake Andrews the repave was needed last year... We're at an ATL style crossroads with Auto Club right now. The track is coming apart.
If they reconfigure I say Make it a short track race on a Saturday Night in California sounds pretty good to be some bumping and banging under the lights
I seen in a interview that calf. Is their biggest market now
As I have said other places..ironic that Auto Clubs final race, in it's current configuration, will also be Harvick's final race at his home track in his final season. Fitting.
People complaining about an hours drive for a nascar race are lazy and cringe. My nearest track is a 3 hour+ drive once I've gotten done parking and I'm actually walking towards the track...
I'd LOVE to have a race an hour away. Seriously, just strait laziness.
Iv got a Juan Pablo hat from Martinsville signed as well
NASCAR should come to Fresno
Auto Club Speedway could continue on IF they could get other compatible uses for the facility.....
The valuation of the property cries out for a larger return.....
I think they should turn Auto Club into a short track. The corners should be shaped like Martinsville, but with 30 degree + banking. Make it a 3/4 mile track with a dogleg in the front stretch.
Atleast make it unique.
They should make another Sonoma in So Cal 🤷♂️
This is pretty much nascar these days, just double down on bad ideas. Every interview that I see with either Ben Kennedy or Steve Phelps leaves me with the feeling that these guys just have no plans or vision for the future of the sport, they just jump from one dumb gimmick to another.
Fun note…The Terminator movie ending was filmed at that location!
Hometown track😢
My only gripe is that unless we fix the short track package all these swings won’t last. The product needs to be good to warrant the change. So fine add more short tracks but the package for the cars needs to be fixed.
The question is what's going to prevent the people who move into the real estate that will be built when they turn Auto Club into a short track to eventually want the short track gone
That's what happened at Pomona drag strip. They built homes across the street from the end of the track and now there's a curfew for the races because people complained of noise coming from a track that stood 25 years before the homes were even built.
The building plan has industrial buildings going up not houses thankfully.
Its already in an industrial area. No homes are goin in around it
@@michealmjhThat would be good. Think it should be turned into a tourist areas with casino and shopping center like they did with Kansas City.
What do yall think a 2 or 1.5 mile track with asphalt stright aways with concrete corners
Or reversed
I say get rid of Auto club and cut losses. There are several tracks that are not being used right now that will bring a bigger crowd.
They keep it up by 2035 all NASCAR will have is iRacing.
i ordered the magazine and used the code...thanks
Wish we could have kept it didn’t the tracks says they could scan the surface and when they lay down the new surface make it like the old?
If Auto Club closes then NASCAR should do Long Beach with IMSA and IndyCar.
Why fix if it ain't broken
The short track config is definitely going to befall the same fate as literally every other short track that’s in a populated area.
People will build houses next to it then complain about the noise until the city shuts it down.
There is too many pollutants in the ground around the speedway for that. That’s why they were able to acquire the land and build the track for cheap in the 90s
@@kylecolletti6994 Then whatever company will complain about this noise or the vibrations until the track is shut down.
@@kylecolletti6994it is on the site of an old steel mill, right?
I wonder what it would be like if they built houses over the northeast section of the track where Greg Moore was killed. Will they put a plaque in the kids bedroom where it happened?
I was there that day.
They should hold the clash there to start the season.
Live update , weather is looking bad for Saturday n Sunday .... 11 am Sat , no activities at The Speedway ... 😦😦😦
NASCAR needs to hold a race on leguna Seca next year instead of coda
Just throwing it out there, but NWS is getting safer barriers and a rehab. I get the lack of seating, but could this pave the way to bringing the Cup Series back there for a points paying race?? Don't forget about Rockingham as well.
I don't think a SINGLE FAN saw the rumors of the reconfiguration and jumped for joy. This decision baffled me when it was first rumored, and it still bafdles me now.
Last years racing was awesome with the constant slingshots I can't believe they are changing it
Last years. It’s been there for 25 years and it hasn’t always been like that and won’t again for years with a repave.
@@TracksideViews I get that but I'd like to enjoy if a few more years. Who knows maybe the short track will be great.
Saw a pic of you at Daytona , not knowing you’re freaking huge. Now I know you’re standing in these and I can’t unsee it
man… gonna miss Auto Club as a 2 miler… 🥺
I'll kinda miss it but we can't hold on to the racetrack forever. We must accept change and let the Earth keep on rotating.
Lol, what will they gonna do with the leftover turns 2 and 3 and the backstretch? That's kinda waste
Same
@@Waddle_Dee_With_InternetI think the backstretch might be parking. Or sold for development and some of the original infield for parking.
Just tried to order the NASCAR 75 Magazine using the coupon. It’s expired and we’re not even out of February yet. 😢
Sunday looks good weather wise, Saturday not so much
how about a 2/3 mile version of winchester indiana.
Nascar if your reading this PLEASE do the Long Beach Grand Prix
Just repave the track ffs. I'd rather keep another 2 mile track with time to let the track age instead of having only 1 race at Michigan
I get the feeling that this is going to be the last race at all and their going to sell/close completely
Given the recent history of losing Riverside and Ontario to developers, you are probably right.
One could hope.
Maybe Chicago is a trial run for an LA street race?
We’re is the Matt Kenseth picture you got in the last video lol
Build a track like north Wilkesboro but with high banks instead.
If nascar wants a track in Ca. Come build up in Sacramento. Wheatland 45 minutes north has hard rock casino and a amphitheater. BMR is based out of Roseville. Huge dirt track presence and Roseville has a alpha track owned by a team owner in trucks.
make a short course!
Just take the date and go back to Rockingham when it is remodeled. 18 million people and they can't sell this out or come close.
It came from most hated race then then most love
I like autoclub. It was never a track that was any good on TV. But in person it was a great race. Not to mention, the infield road course. I attended a lot of other smaller road course races there. California has a massive motorsports culture and autoclub was a motorsports playground. SCCA were regular visitors there. There was a good drag strip, go-cart tracks, and autocrosses. There was always some type of racing going on there every weekend.
I am already bummed I missed the last Speedventures track day there...I am hoping there is another chance with delay in plans for the track.
This is an outside the box theory for replacing Auto Club in 2024: what if the cup series went to Portland? They got a footing with Xfinity with a large turnout. If Xfinity can get a big turnout, surely the cup series can do the same if not more.
No room, you have to do something with the drug infested, homeless clowns that live everywhere
If they replace it with a road course I'd like Willow Springs more, especially since it's closer to the LA area.
They need to simplify the west end of Portland's track for nascar(the east section is ideal though). Cars are way too bulky and cumbersome for 145° turns. There's a reason Watkins Glen is the golden standard, everything is relatively fast and sweeping, and it's ideal for glorified physical speed tanks to roar around
I do like the more road courses idea but they need to be more custom to nascar sensibilities not the ones they are going to. Portland was not built with nascar in mind whatsoever
Just make Fontana a figure 8 track... That will make the 1/2 mile track exciting!
Their problem is there isn't enough roundy round fans in the area they only have a couple short tracks in the area and when you have to give a lot of the tickets away as promotion just to get a lot of people in the stands and there is way more stuff to do than go sit in the sun and watch cars go in circles sell the property and build somewhere else
I liken it to trying to shoehorn something in an area where it just won't work.
it would probably make more sense for them to go race at willow springs.
Plenty of nascar fans in the west. There isn't a single nascar short track west of the Mississippi and the clash doesn't count. Nobody was getting into races for free, Nascar isn't a charity.
Ontario racetrack was only a few exits down the road from Fontana and was basically the same track now it is houses and shopping centers that's probably going to be the fate of the Fontana track because it is a huge Trucking town and they need the room