Auto Club Speedway, formerly known as California Speedway in Fontana, California, has become known as one of the most boring racing venues on the NASCAR circut. In order to combat that, the president of the speedway submitted a proposal to the track’s owners, the International Speedway Corp., but the company has failed to act on it thus far. Interestingly, ISC’s board is led by the France family. Yes, that France family.
The plan, would cost between $25 and $30 million, and would involve increasing the corner banking from 14 degrees to 23 degrees. The work could be completed between the two dates that the track currently has on the NASCAR schedule.
In a Los Angeles Times story written by Jim Peltz, the reasoning behind the plan is examined and the some of the reasons as to why it has not been acted on yet are looked at too. The biggest one seems to be the massive cost. ISC, according to Peltz’s story, said that it would spend a total of $50-$55 million on their 13 tracks this year. The nearly $30 million for the Fontana project would steal a huge chunk of that money. Somehow we have to believe that there would be 12 other extremely pissed off track presidents if that were to happen.
It’s certainly something when your track is mentioned as being the most boring track in a racing series that is regularly panned by people as being too boring. Ouch.
