Well, Rusty Wallace (just announced on Nascar today on ESPN Busch show) has been tapped again (after the Iowa track) to design a new 7/8’s mile track up in Atwater, Calif. area.
It will be a $200 Million multi race tracks raceway.
From Jayski.com:
Rusty Wallace to consult in development of N. Calif track: Riverside Motorsports Park and Rusty Wallace Inc. (RWI), announced that the two companies have entered into a five-year agreement that enlists NASCAR Champion Rusty Wallace as a consultant in the development and construction of Riverside Motorsports Park in Merced County, CA. The terms of the agreement call for the 1989 NASCAR Premier Series Champion to provide track design enhancement engineering to the eight world-class motorsports venues within the RMP facility, which was approved for construction in December 2006.
Originating in August 2000 as RMP Founder and CEO John Condren’s concept for the future of motorsports in California and first announced as a development proposal on 12 August 2003, Riverside Motorsports Park will include eight different motorsports venues, offering 15 race tracks within a single recreation and entertainment park:
" Northern California’s first world-class oval speedway (length: 7/8-mile) for all major stock car and open-wheel racing series " A 3.2-mile road course for sports cars, endurance and open-wheel racing (closely replicating the world-famous Riverside International Raceway, which closed in 1988)
" A 1/4-mile (5,000-foot total length) drag strip
" An integrated 1/3- and 1/2-mile, banked paved oval tracks for stock cars and sprint cars
" A 3/8-mile dirt oval track for motorcycle, stock car, sprint and midget racing
" A 3/4-mile karting course (for sprint and shifter karts)
" 1/2-mile motocross and 1/8-mile BMX courses
" A 1-mile off-road course for trucks, buggies, rally cross cars, etc.
(Rusty Wallace site)(4-7-2007)