Brett Griffin and TJ Majors have a lot to say about NASCAR selling the majority of Auto Club Speedway’s property.
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There's a reason we use to call Fontana Fontucky it was back woods for us urbanites from LA.
the biggest problem with this is parking is not a consideration for the race tracks. I went to Daytona two years ago and had to walk two miles to the track. never again. being handicapped is too much.
No, it wasn't one of the best tracks. Boring ass races. It would be good for 10 laps after a restart, but mostly just riding around the top doing nothing. Maybe, maybe it would be good for a 50 lap race. Good riddance.
Losing Fontana proves one day we'll lose ALL tracks including Daytona. Then motorsports as we know it is gone. All anyone will have is strest racing
Like it or not, the $ Bill influences history. As with Fontana, it usually isn't for the best.
Get ready because there are a bunch of tracks that should be dropped. And Daytona has been a joke for a while boring azz pack racing a couple big crashes then finally on the last turn they start racing hard. Any team can win Daytona. Jmo
Riverside Road Course was the Best Track in SoCal. AutoClub was avg… Michigan is the Same Track. So We fill out more Short Tracks then big tracks… i like the racing in the past… Riding the rails no real action.. Seen it on TV. the stands where about empty. The track will get smaller then Shut Down then they will have to move it Near Hemet or go over to the Desert and have covered Stands. or just Nascar leaves SoCal all together, that's what will happen down the line. Racetrack Near Fresno CA with the New Highspeed train?
Grew up 10 miles from the track. The Inland Empire loves racing and as much as I will miss that track, races could get kinda boring. I live in AZ now and Phoenix is a much more entertaining track from a fan standpoint, so I am personally ok if they make it into a short track. Still, I’ll always have fond memories of “Fontucky.”
Texas should strive to be the new Auto Club.
who cares..no one watches anyway
Having been going there since they initially opened in nineteen ninety seven and taking parade lapse on the oval before the truck races It's something I'll never forget.. Having used to live 6 miles from that track when it was built the area was a dump it has become one of the Premier destinations in California. Nascar is a greedy organization. I don't watch many races due to the new format as it stinks honestly. I don't think they'll put a track back there. I think they're lying to everyone Nascar has become nothing but money and greed
I mean was there ever an exciting race at this track? I'm trying my hardest to remember and the only highlights come to mind is Micheal McDowell flipping down the backstretch. Seems like ever win was a fuel mileage pit strategy win. The races were boring af let's be real.
Auto Club has always been one of my favourite racetracks.
California sucks ass! Who cares!!!
Track sucks.. bye
Yeah right!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ben watching since 2001….terrible… strungout…boring racing!👎
Why Michigan can't have races like fontana since both are indetical in theory?
Oh yeah? It was one of the best? All I remember hearing about it before they announced it was being reconfigured was how the races are always shitty fuel mileage races. Pick a side and stay on it Flip floppers.
Penske didnt build michigan. He just bought it in 72 and upgraded the track and facilities over the course of his ownership.
Amazing how a person can envision a diamond in the ruff. Like he said Penske probably made 5 to 1 on the deal.
They paid $600,000,000 and got 4 tracks.
fontana is the best 1.5-2 miler. the intermediate tracks have lost their lure because they are all brand new or repaved and race boring as hell
Money talks the racing comes 2nd
Wikipedia Says Penske paid $100 million to Build Autoclub Speedway
I like how now thats its closed everyone loves this place. Terrible, boring track. Bore a fornia speedway.
WHY do you have to cuss? Can't we as a nation hold on to at least one of our standards?
A damn shame that this track will probably end up like Riverside.. I seriously doubt the short track will ever see the light of day.
I noticed Joey took off later in the restart zone which is his decision when to take off. I Think the next few rows after assumed he was going sooner and stacked them up. Can't go until the leader goes. So the first couple cars behind Joey caused the wreck.
Auto Club didn’t deserve the hate it got! My hot take
$$$ is what NASCAR wants. There loyalty is to the fans in the southeast. I don’t believe that a short track will survive in the long run. Unless they can lease property on Camp Pendleton, NASCAR is out of SoCal.
SoCal got rid of the "Big O" and add Riverside Raceway, so losing another track is just par for this part of the country. Worse than Las Vegas!
It's a crime what nascar is doing. This track has had great racing for decades, many of the drivers say its one of their favorite tracks. I couldn't care less about the money, if nascar needs 500 million dollars then things have gone terribly wrong anyways. The truth is, the next gen garbage car is good on intermediate tracks and bad on short tracks, and they are tearing down to build a short track…
It's a shame
You look a most race tracks, they were all built in the middle of nowhere. Back in the early years langhorne, Trenton , bridgehampton and list goes on. The price of land can't justify a venue that's only used a few times a year
Brett Griffin incorrectly said Roger Penske built Michigan International Speedway. However, it was Mark LoPatin a Detroit-area land developer who built the speedway at an estimated cost of 4-6 million. Penske later purchased the track in 1972, five years after the inaugural race.
I run the NASA Roval there and have done that for years. Love it, one of my favorite tracks, so fun to hit that oval and run 3/4 of the way around it, pushing 140 (laugh all you want, that is pretty fast for a production street car) and then slow for basically a 90 degree left and immediate 90 degree right, or ess turn if you want to call it tha, coming off the big track. I am really sad I won't be able to do that again, particularly since I broke my race car and am building another one.
Fontana was a great track, but races were too long and for a while there it was a mileage track. Whenever they got the balance of tire wear and mileage right you got a great race because drivers could find a spot to run without really being single fille. Drafting worked but wasn't essential.
I hope if they do build a short track it's not a Bristol clone; make it weird so it's interesting and hard to master. Like a mini Pocono or something.
That and lights so it can host night races.