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The speedway offers several facilities to the public to accommodate "road races, motorcycle races, vehicle testing, and drag races". For those who don't know, in addition to Nascar, the raceway also hosts open-wheel events from both the Indy and Racing Leagues. Similar to other racetracks Fontana, not only features an infield road-course which have been used by the Grand American Road Racing Association, and by the Japanese Grand Touring Car Championship, but the JGTC was a night race which made that event so unique.
In 2005, 19 year old Kyle Busch received his first ever Nascar Nextel Cup at the California Speedway, and became the youngest driver to ever win a race in the Nextel Cup.
In 1999 Canadian driver Greg Moore was killed in a crash at the race track, resulting his car to overturn. After the incident that caused his death the ISC had no choice but to pave the section of the backstretch in time for the 2000 Nascar event to prevent cars from sliding in that section.
The circuit at the California Speedway was used for commercials, and in 2004 sections if the motion picture Herbie was filmed at the track.