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Ascot Park, first named Los Angeles Speedway and later New Ascot Stadium, was a dirt racetrack located near Gardena, California. Ascot Park was open between 1957 and 1990. The track held numerous United States Auto Club (USAC) national tour races and three NASCAR Grand National (now NASCAR Cup Series) races.
Auto Club Speedway (known as California Speedway before and after the 2008–2023 corporate sponsorship by the Automobile Club of Southern California [1]) is a defunct 2-mile (3.219 km), D-shaped oval superspeedway in unincorporated San Bernardino County, California, near Fontana.
After the construction of a 5 ⁄ 8-mile dirt oval near Lincoln Park had been announced in early December 1923, [5] the new Ascot speedway, which was built by promoter George R. Bentel and his publicist Bill Pickens, [3] opened on January 20, 1924, when 35,000 spectators attended the inaugural event, which featured both auto and motorcycle racing.
The Exposition moved to a new site north of Downtown Sacramento in 1968, and the old fairgrounds were closed and sold for development in 1970. The final day of the track was marred by tragedy when three drivers were killed in the 100-lap super-modified caged sprint car competition. [2]
However, during the first practice session for a sprint car race, driver Casey Diemert died of head and neck injuries after hitting the wall and flipping his car from turn 3 to turn 4. [6] Irwindale Speedway as it was prepared for the 2006 Toyota All-Star Showdown. From 2003 to 2010, the main 1 ⁄ 2-mile oval hosted the NASCAR Toyota All-Star ...
The 2013 Auto Club 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on March 24, 2013, at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California, United States.Contested over 200 laps on the 2-mile (3.2 km) asphalt D-shaped oval, it was the fifth race of the 2013 Sprint Cup Series championship.
Donny Schatz pounced on the high side of turns 3 and 4 on the last lap of the 30-lap feature, pinning Daryn Pittman in lapped traffic to steal his first win of 2019 and 13th of his career at Las Vegas. Schatz led the opening 13 laps of the feature before Pittman got underneath him in turn 2 and led the rest of the way until the final corners.
World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series, originally known as the World of Outlaws (often abbreviated WoO) is an American national touring dirt track racing series. It is owned and operated by World Racing Group , and was rebranded when the World of Outlaws Late Model Series was introduced. [ 1 ]