Auto Club Speedway

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Auto Club Speedway
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Location Fontana, CA
Races Round of California
V8 Champ Car
TM Lights Round of California
2012 Karl's 250
Hanmore World Championships

Auto Club Speedway (originally California Speedway) is a two-mile (3 km), low-banked, D-shaped oval superspeedway in Fontana, California. The racetrack is located near the former locations of Ontario Motor Speedway and Riverside International Raceway.

Construction of the track, on the site of the former Kaiser Steel Mill, began in 1995 and was completed in late 1996. The speedway has a grandstand capacity of 91,200 and 28 skyboxes. Lights were added to the speedway in 2004. In 2006, a fanzone was added behind the main grandstand. It currently hosts events for V8 Champ Car, the TM Master Cup Series, and Formula Overdrive. The ARLA Elite Series made visits to this track in 2008 and 2012, and the TM Lights also made visits here in 2010 and 2012.

The track was the site of the TM Master Cup Series' season-opening race in 2013, the Round of California. It will also host the 2013 Hanmore World Championships in Formula Overdrive after the disastrous running of the event at the Texas Motor Speedway in 2012.