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How are you watching the races at Auto Club Speedway? Find out how to get the latest from wherever you.

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Even if you’re not at the track, you can keep up with all the live action on TV and at NASCAR.com. (All times Eastern, unless noted.)

Watch practices and the race on TV:

SPRINT CUP SERIES:

Friday, March 22:

Practice on SPEED, 2:30 p.m.

Coors Light Pole qualifying on SPEED, 7 p.m.

Saturday, March 23:

Practice on SPEED, 12:30 p.m.

Final practice on SPEED, 3:30 p.m.

Sunday, March 24:

Auto Club 400 on FOX, 3 p.m.

NATIONWIDE SERIES:

Friday, March 22:

Practice on SPEED, 4:30 p.m.

Saturday, March 23:

Coors Light Pole qualifying on SPEED, 1:30 p.m.

Royal Purple 300 on ESPN, 5 p.m.

Get inside the garage:

GarageCam will be live streaming on Friday, March 22 from the Sprint Cup garages at 2 p.m. and the Nationwide garages at 4 p.m. ET.

Keep an eye on the media center:

Press Pass will have live news conferences. All times local.

Friday, March 22

Kyle Larson | 10 a.m.

Clint Bowyer | 10:15 a.m.

Jimmie Johnson | 10:30 a.m.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. | 10:45 a.m.

Brad Keselowski | 11 a.m.

Sprint Cup Series post-qualifying driver news conferences | 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, March 23

Nationwide Series post-race driver news conferences | 4:30 p.m.

Sunday, March 24

Sprint Cup Series post-race driver news conferences | 3 p.m.

Want more?

Get lap-by-lap updates on NASCAR.com during practice laps, qualifying and races.

Re-live the race:

Watch race highlights from your favorite driver and top moments shortly after the race using Race Replay  delivered by FedEx Racing.

Want to attend the races this weekend? Buy tickets to the Auto Club 400 and Royal Purple 300.

Know the track:

Check out our Auto Club Speedway track page to take a video tour of the track and explore the best fan views.

Want to meet a driver?

Here is a list of appearances. (List subject to change, all times local.)

Friday, March 22:

Tony Stewart Walk of Fame induction | 10:40 a.m., outside of Gate 12.

Austin Dillon, Trevor Bayne, Travis Pastrana, Regan Smith, Brian Vickers, Brad Sweet, Josh Wise, Sam Hornish Jr., Dakoda Armstrong, Ryan Reed and Parker Kligerman autograph session | 4:30 p.m. in the garage area.

Saturday, March 23:

Kyle Larson | 9:45 a.m., Lefty’s Fun Zone

Juan Pablo Montoya | 10:30 a.m., Garage fence line along Terrace Road. Pre-race pit pass required.

Sunday, March 24:

Joey Logano Q&A | Main Auto Club display in the Auto Club Speedway FanZone, 8:30 a.m.

Clint Bowyer autograph session | Garage fence line along Terrace Road, 8:30 a.m. Pre-race pit pass required.

Marcos Ambrose autograph session | Garage fence line along Terrace Road, 9:05 a.m. Pre-race pit pass required.

Mark Martin autograph session | Garage fence line along Terrace Road, 9:10 a.m. Pre-race pit pass required.

Martin Truex Jr. autograph session | Garage fence line along Terrace Road, 9:10 a.m. Pre-race pit pass required.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Q&A | Sprint Unlimited Experience in the Auto Club Speedway FanZone, 9:15 a.m.

Carl Edwards | Ford display in the Auto Club Speedway FanZone, 9:30 a.m.

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Built by Roger Penske and Kaiser, Auto Club Speedway is a two-mile, d-shaped oval track in Southern California.

Keep all eyes on the race:

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Follow from anywhere:

NASCAR Mobile ’13: This new app is free to download with an upcoming in-app subscription for premium content including live driver audio, live advanced leaderboards and live alternate camera angles (when available).

Buddy system:

Watch live enhanced coverage with 10 HD cameras, a live chat and live standings for this week’s Nationwide series races with RaceBuddy.

Play NASCAR FANTASY LIVE:

Don’t forget to do your research and set your lineup.

Expert tip of the week:

This week, favorites and dark horses will both come from NASCAR’s superteams. Two-mile tracks require a perfect marriage of speed and handling and financial security is the key to a strong relationship. Get more tips from Dan Beaver’s fantasy blog.

Keep up with the latest:

Use our weekly Driver Reports for a quick breakdown of how each driver is looking. Also each week, our writers vote on which drivers are making moves. Read the resulting driver Power Rankings to help power up your lineup.

Last year’s top three finishers:

1. Tony Stewart

2. Kyle Busch

3. Dale Earnhardt Jr.

See the complete results from last year’s event here.

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Hill, team looking to grow together

After making three starts in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series last season for Frank Stoddard’s race team, Timmy Hill is back in the No. 32 car for this weekend’s event at Auto Club Speedway in Southern California. And this year, the plan is to get him plenty more seat time in the vehicle.

Hill takes over the FAS Lane Racing Ford this weekend at Fontana, and with a few exceptions will be the team’s primary driver for the remainder of the season. The 20-year-old from Port Tobacco, Md., has five previous Sprint Cup starts to his name, the best a 22nd-place finish for Stoddard at Kansas Speedway in October of last season.

“He’s a good young kid,” Stoddard said. “He certainly wants to do it. His dad came to me last year and asked if he could get in the car a few times, so we made an arrangement and tried to work him in there, and I thought he did a really good job. He had a top-25 finish at Kansas City. He didn’t tear the car up, didn’t put a scratch on it in the races. His feedback was good. He had as good a speed as we’ve had with anybody in the car. … So I think there’s room for him to grow and get better, and that’s what we’re looking for.”

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FAS Lane still has remaining obligations to two other drivers, Ken Schrader and Terry Labonte. Schrader will start the April 7 event at Martinsville Speedway with Federated Auto Parts on the car, while Labonte will run the remaining restrictor-plate races backed by C&J Energy Services. Hill will be in the No. 32 car for the balance of the schedule.

His sponsor will be a company new to NASCAR — OXYwater, a hydration beverage brand launched last year out of Columbus, Ohio. FAS Lane has announced that the company will back the No. 32 car for 24 races this year, as well as the full season in 2014 and 2015. The company debuted on Labonte’s car last weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway, where the two-time champion finished 25th.

The sponsorship commitment “allows us to continue to work on the cars and start improving them,” Stoddard said. “We need to start improving them, we need to get some engineering and stuff. We’re not going to be able to ramp this thing up and just snap our fingers and fix everything that ails us. But we’re certainly going to be in the mix to, in six months, be able to improve the program. That’s really our main goal right now.”

Placing Hill in the seat is separate from the sponsorship deal, Stoddard said. The driver will join Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Danica Patrick as candidates for the circuit’s Sunoco Rookie of the Year award. Contenders for the award earn points based on their 17 best finishes of the season.

“We’re going to run really hard with Timmy here, and hopefully make a little bit of a charge toward Rookie of the Year,” Stoddard said. “I know it’s going to be difficult with him running fewer races, but nonetheless, that’s our plan right now, and hopefully that goes off well.”

Stoddard, a former crew chief with 14 career race wins on NASCAR’s top circuit, founded his race team in 2011. He now partners with OXYwater, whose founders include former Ohio State linebacker Preston Harrison.

“We’ve always been a team that’s come to the race track and raced, and it took a lot of money out of our pockets to go do that,” Stoddard said. “So now we’re asking the NASCAR fans to get behind us and … show that they’ll come out and support the brands that support NASCAR. That’s the way to get new companies in there. We have to continue to get the NASCAR fans to support the companies that are supporting us.”

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Champ overtakes Johnson in points, rankings; Edwards, Stewart stumble

Driver                    Change            High/Low            Last race

         

1. Brad Keselowski    

  

Outlook: Well, that didn’t take long. After finishing in the top five in every race thus far, the reigning Sprint Cup Series champion has overtaken Jimmie Johnson in the standings. It could be a short-lived stay at the top, however, as he struggles at Auto Club Speedway, while Johnson stands above the crowd at the track in his home state.
Standings: 1st, 166 points

2. Jimmie Johnson       

  

Outlook: Johnson had a bit of a rough day at Bristol, finishing out of the top 10 for the first time this season after blowing a tire and hitting the wall. But hey, at least he can laugh it off.
Standings: 3rd, 151 points

3. Dale Earnhardt Jr. 

  

Outlook: Earnhardt is off to his best start since 2008, but much of the credit has to go to crew chief Steve Letarte. The Hendrick Motorsports driver credited his sixth-place finish at Bristol to late pit calls made by the veteran chief.
Standings: 2nd, 157 points

4. Kasey Kahne            

  

Outlook: It’s merely a coincidence, but it’s funny how on the same night that Kahne made a cameo on "The Cleveland Show" that made him look like an incompetent driver, he ended up in Victory Lane.
Standings: 7th, 124 points

5. Kyle Busch                

  

Outlook: There may be no hotter driver than Busch right now, as he nearly swept the weekend by setting the new qualifying record at Bristol, winning the NASCAR Nationwide Series race and finishing second on Sunday. He’s this week’s Mobil 1 Driver of the Race.
Standings: 10th, 115 points

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6. Matt Kenseth           

  

Outlook: Kenseth was the unfortunate victim of Jeff Gordon’s blown tire, and his fall in these rankings has more to do with the emergences of Kahne and Busch than his 35th-place finish.
Standings: 13th, 103 points

7. Clint Bowyer            

  

Outlook: Bowyer’s fifth-place finish vaulted him back toward the top of the standings, yet the driver seemed to be more concerned about what he’d be putting in his stomach. Hey, whatever works.
Standings: 4th, 128 points

8. Denny Hamlin            

  

Outlook: Oh, Denny boy. Hamlin is making plenty of headlines these days, but not for winning races. It’s fair to assume Joey Logano was one of the drivers that didn’t stand up for Hamlin following his recent $25,000 fine. And he likely won’t be in the future, either.
Standings: 6th, 125 points

 

9. Greg Biffle                

  

Outlook: Biffle was a big fan of how his car was running this weekend, which is a good sign, but from the sounds of it, there was some strategy that backfired. "Finally had a good car at Bristol, just lost track position at the end and got ate up by new tires behind us!! Team did a great job".
Standings: 5th, 126 points

10. Kevin Harvick           

  

Outlook: Harvick’s choice to take four tires late in the race contributed to a huge downturn of positioning, but for most of the day he was a solid competitor. However he is in good position for next week’s race, as he has a favorable past in Fontana.
Standings: 17th, 98 points

 

11. Jeff Gordon              

  

Outlook: Gordon was having a good week. He was the darling of the Internet with his test drive video and had a solid hold on the lead in the Food City 500 before blowing a tire and crashing. Take his 34th-place finish with a grain of salt.
Standings: 21st, 90 points

 

12. Carl Edwards            

  

Outlook: Really rough outing for Edwards at Bristol. First, he barely managed to wiggle out of a wreck caused by Jeff Burton, then got sick while driving, finishing in 18th place. 
Standings: 8th, 124 points

 

13. Martin Truex Jr.        

  

Outlook: After a rough restart late, Truex Jr. ended up finishing just outside of the top 10, but ran inside it for most of the day.
Standings: 18th, 96 points

 

14. Joey Logano             

  

Outlook: It’s what everybody was talking about post-race, and for good reason. Logano angrily trying to stick his head into the window of Denny Hamlin’s No. 11 is one of the most vivid images of this young season.
Standings: 12th, 104 points

 

15. Tony Stewart           

  

Outlook: Stewart’s bad luck continued at Bristol, blowing a tire a mere nine laps in. He finished 31st, but could rebound next week, as he’s been wildly successful at Auto Club Speedway in the past.
Standings: 24th, 85 points

 

16. Paul Menard            

  

Outlook: Despite losing a spot in the rankings, Menard is the only Richard Childress Racing driver in the top 15 in points, the fourth straight season he’s been in the top 10 after four races.
Standings: 9th, 118 points

 

17. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 

  

Outlook: Considering he had to start at the back of the pack following an engine change, a 16th-place finish is more than respectable for the rookie.
Standings: 11th, 115 points

 

18. Kurt Busch               

  

Outlook: Hello, 2013. Meet Kurt Busch. The five-time Bristol winner is always great at Thunder Valley and used the Food City 500 to thrust himself into significance.
Standings: 16th, 98 points

19. Ryan Newman       

  

Outlook: Newman saw his Bristol qualifying record set in 2003 broken by Kyle Busch, but rebounded by finishing seventh in the Food City 500. You win some, you lose some.
Standings: 23rd, 87 points

 

20. Jamie McMurray        

  

Outlook: After an encouraging 10th-place finish, McMurray makes his first appearance in the top 20 and out of ‘In the Rearview’. His start at Auto Club Speedway in 2012 was disastrous, so his stay might be a short one.
Standings: 14th, 100 points

       

In the rearview

 

Note: These rankings have been determined by a poll that included writers Kenny Bruce, Holly Cain, David Caraviello and Zack Albert, and video host Alan Cavanna. Tell us what you think about the Power Rankings. Use the hashtag #NASCARPOWER.

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Take a look back at the race and track history with some noteworthy numbers

0.114    seconds was the margin of victory when Kevin Harvick beat Jimmie Johnson to the checkered flag in the spring 2011 race, the closest since the advent of electronic scoring.

2    miles is the length of the track.

9    is the number of wins that belong to Hendrick Motorsports, the most of all teams (Roush Fenway Racing is second with seven).

12    is the number of top-five finishes by Jimmie Johnson, more than any driver (Jeff Gordon is second with 10, Matt Kenseth is third with eight).

14    The degrees of banking in all four turns.

15    drivers have poles at Auto Club Speedway, led by Kurt Busch with three.

19    is the age of the youngest pole winner (Kyle Busch at 19 years, 9 months and 25 days in the spring of 2005).

20    is the age of the youngest race winner (Kyle Busch at 20 years, 4 months and 2 days in fall of 2005).

23    Sprint Cup races have been held at Auto Club Speedway. Jeff Burton and Bobby Labonte have started in all of them without visiting Victory Lane, the most among all active drivers.

31    is the deepest someone has started in the field before winning the race (Matt Kenseth, spring 2006).

34    drivers from California have won at least one race in NASCAR’s three national series. Twenty-four of those have been in the Sprint Cup series (Jeff Gordon leads with 87 while Kevin Harvick leads the Nationwide series with 39 and Ron Hornaday Jr. leads the Truck series with 51).

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42    is the age of the oldest pole winner (Mike Skinner at 42 years, 10 months and 2 days in the spring of 2000).

44    is the age of the oldest race winner (Rusty Wallace at 44 years, 8 months and 15 days in spring of 2001).

48    is the car number that Jimmie Johnson drove when he went to Victory Lane for the first time in his Sprint Cup series career on April 28, 2002. The 48 car has been to Victory Lane five times, more than any other car.

122.4    is the driver rating for Jimmie Johnson at Auto Club Speedway, the highest of all drivers.

125    drivers have completed in at least one Sprint Cup race at Auto Club Speedway.

133    Sprint Cup races have been run in the state of California (Riverside International Raceway, Sonoma Raceway, Auto Club Speedway, Ontario Motor Speedway, California State Fairgrounds, Carrell Speedway, Ascot Stadium, Bay Meadows Race Track, Marchabnks Speedway, Oakland Stadium, Redwood Speedway, Willow Spring Speedway, Capitol Speedway, Merced Fairgrounds and Santa Clara Fairgrounds).

183.015    is the speed in miles per hour of the first pole at Auto Club Speedway, won by Joe Nemechek in 1997 (39.341 seconds).

188.245    is the speed in miles per hour of the track qualifying record, set by Kyle Busch in 2005 (38.248 seconds).

200    is the number of laps in the Auto Club 400 (400 miles).

424    drivers in NASCAR’s national series history have called California home.

715    number of quality passes by Jeff Gordon (series high).

1995    The year groundbreaking for California Speedway began (it was changed to Auto Club Speedway in 2008).

2004    was the year the first night race was held and the first year both Sprint Cup and Nationwide ran two races at the speedway.

2,500    is the length of the backstretch in feet.

3,100    is the length of the frontstretch in feet.

 


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Stars to offer legendary NASCAR phrase ahead of Auto Club 400

Stars of the upcoming film G.I. Joe: Retaliation, D.J. Cotrona and Adrianne Palicki, will serve as Grand Marshals for the Auto Club 400 at Auto Club Speedway on Sunday 3 p.m. ET.

As Grand Marshals, Cotrona and Palicki will give the legendary command “Drivers, start your engines” to the 43-car field of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at Southern California’s premier motorsports facility. The event will be televised on FOX.

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In G.I. Joe: Retaliation, set for release in theaters on March 28, Cotrona plays Flint, a beloved character of the G.I. Joe mythology and a solid and strong-willed soldier who has a bit of a rebellious streak.  Palicki plays Lady Jaye, the only female in the squad and never one to back down or be intimidated.

This film is follow-up to the 2009 release “G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA,” which grossed more than $300 million worldwide. In this sequel, the G.I. Joes are not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra, they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence. The film stars Cotrona, Byung-hun Lee, Palicki, Ray Park, Jonathan Pryce, RZA, Ray Stevenson, and Channing Tatum, with Bruce Willis and Dwayne Johnson. 

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Check out which car colors will hit the two-mile track in Fontana

Editor’s note: This story will be updated as additional paint schemes are revealed.

This weekend’s races at Auto Club Speedway will give NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and Nationwide Series drivers the chance to race on the lowest banking (three degrees on the backstretch) and the longest straightaways (3,100 feet on the frontstretch) for the first time this season.

Below are some of the special paint schemes you’ll see at the Royal Purple 300 and the Auto Club 400.

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Marcos Ambrose will drive the No. 9 MAC Tools Ford.

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Tony Stewart will drive the No. 14 Rush Truck Centers/Mobil 1 Chevrolet.

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Greg Biffle will drive the No. 16 3M Window Film Ford.

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Kyle Busch will drive the No. 18 Interstate Batteries Toyota.

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Joey Logano will drive the No. 22 Auto Club of Southern California Ford.

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Ryan Newman will drive the No. 39 Wix Filters Chevrolet.

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Jimmie Johnson will drive the No. 48 Lowe’s / Jimmie Johnson Foundation Chevrolet.

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Sam Hornish Jr. will drive the No. 12 Wurth Ford in the Nationwide Series race.

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2013 Paint Scheme Previews:

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Go behind the wheel and inside the headsets around the World’s Fastest Half Mile.

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Reconfigured short track produces tight racing, high drama

BRISTOL, Tenn. — Race one prompted the helmet toss. Race two featured the former teammate fracas. Will race three at the reconfigured Bristol Motor Speedway be more of the same or even more of what fans seem to feed on?

With just two NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races thus far on the retooled .533-mile bullring, it’s premature to render a verdict on what sort of track Bristol has become. According to the early reviews, however, the changes are a huge hit.

Speedway officials announced in grand fashion after last spring’s Food City 500 that they would alter the track to promote closer-quarters racing, something that was missing after the surface shifted to progressive banking in 2007. The grinding away of the top lane of concrete didn’t exactly return the track to its previous condition, but it’s hard to argue with the positive response.

"I think if you look at it objectively, this was a great race."

— Brad Keselowski

"I would say that the old Bristol isn’t back. I quite honestly feel like this one’s better," said Brad Keselowski, who finished third Sunday after winning two of the previous three Bristol races. "Now it’s hard because you don’t have the nostalgia effect, the Terry Labonte-Dale Earnhardt battles for the win, all that kind of stuff. That’s not coming back. But I think you have something better than that right now.

"I know there’s a lot of people that don’t see it that way. I think if you look at it objectively, this was a great race."

Every great race needs a camera-friendly highlight with a side of controversy. After Sunday, the new track is 2-for-2.

Last fall, Tony Stewart meted out revenge after his crash with Matt Kenseth by winging his helmet squarely at Kenseth’s car on pit road. Sunday, it was Joey Logano and former Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Denny Hamlin doing their part. Their post-race discussion escalated into a shoving match between their crews, continued into a Twitter skirmish and included the memorable Logano quote: "That’s a freaking genius behind the wheel of the 11 car — probably the worst teammate I ever had."

The sideshows and sound bites will be what fans remember. But beyond those etched-in images, the afternoon with plenty of two- and sometimes three-wide racing likely will also stand the test of time.

"It’s a very racy track. It’s a bit of an unknown," Keselowski said. "It changes a lot throughout the race. Certainly you have the ability to run into each other like you always had, but you also have the ability to really work a lot of different lanes. That makes lap traffic and all that stuff really, really fun to go through and really fun to watch."

Before the race, scribes and drivers alike tried to predict what sort of event Bristol would produce. On Friday, Dale Earnhardt Jr. struck a cautionary tone, saying "everybody needs to put away the pick-axes and hammers because we really don’t know what makes a good race track."

After notching a steady sixth-place finish Sunday, Earnhardt’s measured response seemed to reiterate his earlier statement: Leave Bristol alone.

"I hope the race was fun for the fans. I enjoy racing here," Earnhardt said. "What are you going to do? It’s not the old Bristol any more and it won’t be unless they spend several million dollars trying to get it back and even then, who knows if you could. You’ll get everybody’s opinions."

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