Well, this is the pits! And not much more.
NASCAR Xfinity Series driver Garett Smithley has posted an aerial photo of the former Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif., revealing its current condition.
The property of what was once a two-mile oval speedway is being redeveloped into a. industrial park while NASCAR decides if it will build a half-mile oval as it originally planned. Most of the circuit has now been removed and all that is left is the grandstands with a section of track in front of it, plus pit lane and a row of garages.
A large warehouse building now occupies what was the entry to Turn One and the rest of the original track’s outline has been all but erased. NASCAR held its last race at the track in February, 2023, which was won by Kyle Busch.
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“Our goal is really to be in Southern California long term,” NASCAR executive vice president and chief venue and racing innovations officer Ben Kennedy told American Cars And Racing during a press conference for the release of the 2025 NASCAR schedule last August.
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“We’ve continued to work on our plans for Fontana, we have a number of configurations and variations that the team has been working on for what that track might look like and what are kind of the other activities that can happen on that parcel of land that we have there, but then also exploring all of our opportunities in the Southern California market. It’s a massive market for us. Number two in terms of the quantity of NASCAR fans, it’s a huge media market for us, it’s in [broadcast partner] Fox’s backyard. So, strategically as a sport, it makes a lot of sense for us to be in Southern California.”