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Auto Club Speedway (known as California Speedway before and after the 2008–2023 corporate sponsorship by the Automobile Club of Southern California [1]) was a 2.000 mi (3.219 km), D-shaped oval superspeedway in unincorporated San Bernardino County, California, near Fontana.
Pontiac, or formally the Pontiac Motor Division of General Motors, was an American automobile brand owned, manufactured, and commercialized by General Motors. It was originally introduced as a companion make for GM's more expensive line of Oakland automobiles. [ 3 ]
This includes the final race at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway in 1984, the inaugural Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1994, the final race at North Wilkesboro Speedway in 1996, the first race at California Speedway (now Auto Club Speedway) in 1997, and the first race at Kansas Speedway in 2001.
Auto Club Speedway, the track where the race was held. Auto Club Speedway (previously California Speedway) was a two-mile (3.2 km), low-banked, D-shaped oval superspeedway in Fontana, California which hosted NASCAR racing annually from 1997 to 2023. It was also used for open wheel racing events.
California 500 (IndyCar) was a USAC and later CART sanctioned Indy car race held at Ontario Motor Speedway from 1970 to 1980 Auto Club 500 is a NASCAR race held at the California Speedway which was called the "California 500 presented by NAPA" from 1997 to 1999
1989 Saleen Mustang SSC. The Saleen brand was established in 1983 originally as "Saleen Autosport" by Steve Saleen, a former professional Formula Atlantic race-car driver. [5] [6] The first Saleens were produced in 1984 when they built three cars as the first production run – a white hatchback, a bright copper-glow five-speed hatchback, [7] and a black hatchback.
By 1999, he became the speedway's manager of new business development. [2] On February 19, 2004, he was reassigned to the Charlotte Motor Speedway's parent company, Speedway Motorsports, Inc. (SMI) to serve as the company's executive vice president of sales and marketing.
The layout of California Speedway, the venue where the race was held. The track, Auto Club Speedway, was a four-turn superspeedway that was 2 miles (3.2 km) long. [5] The track's turns were banked from fourteen degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, was banked at eleven degrees. Unlike the front stretch, the ...