Posts Tagged ‘Auto Club Speedway’
NASCAR — please come back to Southern California
NASCAR, over the years you’ve cultivated a large and loyal audience for Cup and Xfinity Series stock car racing in Southern California. Sadly, that ended in 2023 with the last race at Auto Club Speedway. However, you kept our hopes alive with serious talk about building a short track on the site of that superspeedway.…
Read MoreMotor Press Guild Photo of the Year Award
The Motor Press Guild, of which I am a long-time member, is America’s largest association of automotive journalists and public relations professionals. Our Excellence in Automotive Journalism Awards program draws entrants from across the nation. It “is designed to promote the highest caliber work in the automotive media,” and includes books, articles, photographs, audio-visual works,…
Read MoreSand-filled barrels save lives on the racetrack & on the street
On Saturday, February 26, at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California, NASCAR race fans witnessed a spectacular, explosive crash. At the wheel of the Menards/Patriot Lighting Toyota #19 was driver Brandon Jones. Fortunately, he walked away from the wreck. The event was the NASCAR Xfinity Series’ “Production Alliance Group 300,” the first race of a…
Read MoreNASCAR Auto Club 500 at California Speedway
Fontana, CA – Feb. 25, 2007 Twice per year I travel to California Speedway in Fontana to cover NASCAR NEXTEL CUP races. This past February, while I was walking in front of the grandstands during the Auto Club 500, a race fan called out to me and asked me some questions about being a motorsports journalist. That led…
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