NASCAR is cleaning the slate.
Demolition of the former Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif., continues as NASCAR awaits final approval to start building a new short track on the site.
The NASCAR-owned two-mile oval’s property is being redeveloped as a commercial park, with a small portion of it reserved for a half-mile oval.
The track hosted its final race this past February when Kyle Busch took the checkered flag.
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The short track project has been postponed several times and NASCAR doesn’t have a definitive date for when it will be completed and host its first race.
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Officials have indicated that it could take 18 months to build once the work gets going, which puts the 2025 season in doubt.
The surface of Turns 1 and 2 was torn up in November and captured by a drone photographer, but now more images of the demolition taken by local fans have started to surface on social media.
One posted to X shows that the iconic mission-style front gate has been entirely removed.
Another documents the destruction of the west end of the grandstands, which last had a capacity of 68,000, but were once big enough to hold 92,000 fans.
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Preliminary designs for the new track show it to have a paperclip design with sharp turns connected by long straights. The front straight is slightly curved along a smaller grandstand, something like a miniature version of the two-mile oval’s design.
NASCAR effectively transferred the track’s date to the Iowa Speedway, which will be hosting its first Cup Series race on June 16.
The race will be called the Iowa Corn 350 and is officially sold out at a capacity of approximately 30,000.
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