Ever since NASCAR ran the second race of the season at Auto Club Speedway with the announcement that this would be the last race at the 2.0-mile superspeedway, news on the track has stalled completely. NASCAR had previously said they planned to convert the track to a 0.5-mile short track, but, no announcement has been made on that progress either since the big track was closed.
Some wishful thinkers hoped that the lack of news meant that NASCAR was reconsidering getting rid of the track, but, the 2024 schedule came with no mention of Auto Club Speedway. However, some Internet sleuths have noted some activity at the track, but, it may not be the activity some hoped for.
There has not been any official announcement on what is going on at Auto Club Speedway, but HubbaDuck97 drove past the facility and noticed two signs posted outside of the facility. One said, “NASCAR/New Valley Construction Entrance” and the other said “Hillwood Construction Entrance Only”.
No other context was given, and no other images were shown regarding what specifically was being done at the track. It is also unclear exactly how long those signs have been posted.
Another update was posted by Jeff Gluck later in Tuesday when he posted construction getting started at Auto Club Speedway. For now, they were just taking care of parking lots with the picture by Will Lester. Long story short, construction has started, and it is happening.
Aside from that there is not much else that has been officially announced by NASCAR. They never even announced when they reportedly sold the land at and surrounding Auto Club Speedway originally. However, the original Adam Stern report did state that roughly 90 acres would be left over for NASCAR to construct a short track on the site.
From there, we know very little else, but we can begin to speculate about what all of this means. There was also some speculation on Twitter about whether or not there could be some changes to how the track could be laid out on the property. Nascarman on Twitter put together his theory based on the property map.
It’s worth noting that we could not verify this is exactly how the land was divvied up when it comes to the sale. Then again, if this is true, it does not change that much about the original plan as it would still be a Martinsville-shaped short track, but it would just be in a different location on the property than originally thought.
As far as when Auto Club Speedway may be able to return to the schedule, if at all, it’s going to be a while. Now that construction has started, it gives the track some hope that it can return sooner rather than later, albeit in the short track form.
The silence of NASCAR is interesting as well. The Auto Club Speedway Twitter account still exists under the handle @NextGenCA, and it is active. It has been used to primarily retweet NASCAR promotional tweets, but it’s still there.
It’s obvious that NASCAR has not forgotten about it, and the fact that construction is happening with no NASCAR announcement can mean one of two things. First off, it could mean that nothing has changed about the plans, and this is just the normal timeline NASCAR claimed. The silence could also mean that NASCAR has given up on any plans at the site, but that seems unlikely given both the signs and the construction actually starting.
California race fans will be watching what happens at this location as construction continues. As of right now, NASCAR has remained silent, and we will have to wait. Maybe when the 2025 schedule comes out, we will know more about the true future of Auto Club Speedway.
It was a busy Saturday at EchoPark Speedway (formerly Atlanta Motor Speedway). First, he had the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race. Then, the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series took center stage and they were two vastly different events. Ultimately, it was Sheldon Creed standing tall in victory lane when all was said and done. Here’s what you need to take away from tonight’s NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series race at EchoPark Speedway.
Corey Day had a very sloppy, bad race in general, and it started early. First, he caused a wreck that took out Harrison Burton and a couple of others. Then, he took out the JRM duo of Carson Kvapil and Justin Allgaier. You can recap that first incident by reading the article below.
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Kvapil and Allgaier weren’t the only JRM cars to have issues tonight. Firstly, Rajah Caruth was out of control throughout the race, fighting a mean-handling car. He was able to brilliantly save it several times, to his credit. But perhaps the biggest incident involving the four JRM Chevys came at Lap 142 when Sammy Smith had a tire go down and spun in front of the pack. This took out several drivers, including Taylor Gray, among others. Read about that here:
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As Ross Chastain took the lead and the pack was closing in on 20 laps to go, things a little deeper in the pack started to get a little hairy. We had yet another huge crash late in the running here tonight, this one sparked by Sammy Smith’s flat rear tire. Here’s what happened:
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It has been a tail of two races when it comes to today’s NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series at EchoPark Speedway (formerly the Atlanta Motor Speedway). We got off to a rough start with Corey Day triggering a massive wreck that took out the likes of Harrison Burton, and the Sieg brothers. Then, the field settled in and started to churn laps. Here’s what’s gone down so far.
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