"Auto Club Speedway is an awesome track. It is one of the oldest surfaces we race on so tire fall off is pretty big. Once the tires fall off you move around a lot so it will be important for us to make sure our No. 28 Winfield Toyota will work on multiple lines around the track and have the best grip possible."
Sunday's event will mark Earnhardt's first career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) start at the fast 2.0-mile track, and his fifth career NSCS start. The Mooresville, NC native made his two starts this season at the Atlanta Motor Speedway and at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
CGR in XFINITY at ACS: CGR scored their first-ever XFINITY Series pole position at ACS in September 2004 with driver Casey Mears. In 14 starts at the 2.0-mile Southern California Speedway, CGR drivers have collected one pole, two top-five and two top-10 finishes. The best result came in that same September 2004 race, when Mears finished second.
Straight out of Concord, Roush Fenway Racing would like to welcome everybody to the “Wild, Wild, West” as the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) returns to the Golden State for the third leg of the West coast swing at Auto Club Speedway (ACS) in Fontana, Calif. a track that has seen a Roush Fenway Ford visit victory lane 15 times.
The Motorcraft/Quick Lane Racing team and its rookie wheelman Ryan Blaney face a couple of obstacles as they go for their third consecutive top-10 finish this weekend in the Auto Club 400 at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif.
Stenhouse has three NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) starts at Auto Club with an average starting position of 26.7 and average finishing position of 23.0.
“Over the past couple of years the races have been so good there,” Allmendinger said. “It’s always nice to see that place packed with fans. The last two years the races have been sold out and that makes it awesome and the finishes have been exciting.
KASEY AT AUTO CLUB: The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series encounters the first two-mile track of the season this weekend at Auto Club Speedway. Kasey Kahne is familiar with Victory Lane at the Fontana, California, track, taking home the checkered flag in the September 2006 race.
After its summer break, the JBS Equipment NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series presented by Elite Motorsports jumps right back into its Road to the Championship playoffs in a major way
