California Speedway Demo / Rebuild

One year ago tomorrow....Damn.
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Based off of some of the noticeable differences between the last set of pics (mostly turns 3 and 4) they haven’t even completed demolition and excavation yet. I would not expect them to air drop a completed short track onto it anytime soon.
 
NASCAR has sold 85% of the property, and they have no real comments about the future of the track, other than stating there's no timeline for anything. Reading between the lines, I would say they are shopping the last 90 acres they still own and hoping to sell for a premium. I sincerely doubt they rebuild another track here.
 
2 Sweet said:
NASCAR has sold 85% of the property, and they have no real comments about the future of the track, other than stating there's no timeline for anything. Reading between the lines, I would say they are shopping the last 90 acres they still own and hoping to sell for a premium. I sincerely doubt they rebuild another track here.
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I’ve been to some awesome races at that place. It was a very unique track.
 
2 Sweet said:
NASCAR has sold 85% of the property, and they have no real comments about the future of the track, other than stating there's no timeline for anything. Reading between the lines, I would say they are shopping the last 90 acres they still own and hoping to sell for a premium. I sincerely doubt they rebuild another track here.
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I'd agree with this. Unfortunately.
 
I'm still stunned this is happening, I never thought I'd see one of the new triovals get torn down, now to tear down some of of 1.5's and put Atlanta back the way it was, (yeah I know not gonna happen) but I can wish. ;):D
 
BobbyFord said:
I saw 221 going into T1.
Saw Kurt going 217 into 3 on the bottom.
75 feet wide, many grooves. So many great races there.
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Wasn't that the **** man? Fontana was my first track. I was so excited to be at a NASCAR event, I was in tears. I turned on the scanner for first practice....and as I was trying to tune into MY Toyota drivers, I landed on Dale Jr.'s scan.....he was headed into Three on his first hot lap, and his brakes weren't right. He said, "Two hundred mile an hour corner entry wit no brakes is booo sheeeet." Just awesome.
 
BobbyFord said:
They keep crap tracks like Talldega and Daytona that provide junk pack racing and 20-car pileups and then they build warehouses on Auto Club Speedway. :dunce:

GALLERY: Warehouses are being built on former Auto Club Speedway site – AmericaJR

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It sucks to lose a track but everytime I see cranes erected I just think of all the great high paid skilled labor jobs that are created. Best way to tell how well a city is doing economically is how many cranes you see in the skyline.
 
Wow, that warehouse where turn one used to be…is right there. I don’t know looks tight getting fans in and out, still looks like though the blueprints that were released. I hope this happens, a cup short track on the west coast would be fantastic.
 
Jorge De Guzman said:
Wow, that warehouse where turn one used to be…is right there. I don’t know looks tight getting fans in and out, still looks like though the blueprints that were released. I hope this happens, a cup short track on the west coast would be fantastic.
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It’s too bad we’re getting more short tracks when the next gen car sucks on them.
 
damn that's tight.

I'm heading to LA in January, but doubt i'll have a chance to swing through Fontana.
 
There is plenty of room there to build a short track, but the stuff on the ends has got to go. The grandstands might look full for once. :p
 
Is the Front stretch going to continue to be banked when the short track conversion takes place?
 
I was under the impression that the front stretch was remaining as is (mostly) and the pit road would be the backstretch. I never liked that idea. In seeing the latest overhead, I don't see how that will work.
 
Jorge De Guzman said:
Is the Front stretch going to continue to be banked when the short track conversion takes place?
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The original plan was a track with an essentially flat backstretch and ridiculously high banked, and obscenely tight radius corners. Tighter than a good number of true, backwoods, Saturday night short tracks. The purpose of this is to save both the frontstretch infrastructure and the current pit road infrastructure. You see, old Fontana has suites running all the way behind the old configuration's pit wall. NASCAR... for God knows what reason... really wants to keep these suites and squeeze an unrealistic track in between.

Then word got out that the simulations done in North Carolina of the proposed track weren't feasible. Which you'd think they would've tried before drawing up an entire master plan, start the permitting process, and announced the changes to the fans

Annnnnnnddddd now we're here and no one's heard anything since that. NASCAR literally took SMI's "mini mile" concept to the EXTREMEME, and said "f it, bet that'll work!" and within 20 minutes of that idea being hatched, the real estate listing for most of the track's property was already out.
 
Speedbowl14 said:
The original plan was a track with an essentially flat backstretch and ridiculously high banked, and obscenely tight radius corners. Tighter than a good number of true, backwoods, Saturday night short tracks. The purpose of this is to save both the frontstretch infrastructure and the current pit road infrastructure. You see, old Fontana has suites running all the way behind the old configuration's pit wall. NASCAR... for God knows what reason... really wants to keep these suites and squeeze an unrealistic track in between.

Then word got out that the simulations done in North Carolina of the proposed track weren't feasible. Which you'd think they would've tried before drawing up an entire master plan, start the permitting process, and announced the changes to the fans

Annnnnnnddddd now we're here and no one's heard anything since that. NASCAR literally took SMI's "mini mile" concept to the EXTREMEME, and said "f it, bet that'll work!" and within 20 minutes of that idea being hatched, the real estate listing for most of the track's property was already out.
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Wait, I missed that on the plans. I figured they'd be reusing pit road sorta but also figured they'd just build backwards to at least give themselves a chance of making it work and that of course they had tested it. Am I imagining here that they were shooting to have the current pit lane not change and just be on the outside of the conceived turns? Like THAT tight?
 
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