Some view NASCAR races at the California Speedway as boring because there isn’t enough passing, and Dale Earnhardt Jr. offered a blunt solution Friday: Start over in Fontana. “Dig it up and rebuild it,” he said when asked how to generate closer racing on the two-mile, D-shaped oval. “They do it at other places, so I don’t see why we couldn’t do it here. It’s a little too flat, The banking is flat in Turns 1 and 2 and it’s not conducive to good racing.” All four corners have 14-degree banking. “We’re going 196 [mph] down the front straightaway into a flat corner,” Earnhardt said. “How are you supposed to race around that? You do your best just to get around it uneventfully, you know, much less try to pass somebody.” The track’s banking is flatter than some Nextel Cup tracks, but others have even less banking in the corners, including the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway.(Los Angeles Times)(9-2-2006)
