LOS ANGELES – Metrolink makes travelling to Fontana for the Auto Club 400 NASCAR Cup Series race on Sunday, March 1 easier and less stressful with three special trains to Auto Club Speedway. Race fans can affordably avoid traffic with the $10 Weekend Day Pass that is good for travel all day and includes a shuttle to the speedway entrance gates.
Metrolink will offer special trains to the Auto Club Speedway from Oxnard, Oceanside and Lancaster with selected stops. Trains will arrive at a specially constructed platform near the back straightaway of the race track in Fontana.
“Watching NASCAR racers drive at top speed is a thrill but inching along in traffic to get to the race is not,” said Metrolink CEO Stephanie Wiggins. “Metrolink riders bypass traffic so they can focus on the race, not the bottleneck.”
Metrolink’s regular San Bernardino Line weekend service will not stop at the Auto Club Speedway platform. Passengers can transfer to the special train at the San Bernardino-Downtown, Covina, Montclair and Rancho Cucamonga stations. Alternatively, travelers can exit at the Fontana or Rancho Cucamonga stations and take a ride hailing service to the speedway.
Fans can purchase the $10 Weekend Day Pass for the special Metrolink train service to the Auto Club 400 on race day at a station ticket machine or through the Metrolink mobile app. For more information go to metrolinktrains.com/race.
Returning trains depart Auto Club Speedway one hour after the end of the race.
Customers can purchase NASCAR race tickets and obtain information on the Auto Club Speedway train schedule by calling Auto Club Speedway at (800) 944-RACE (7223), logging on to autoclubspeedway.com/Metrolink or visiting the Auto Club Speedway ticket office.
ABOUT METROLINK (metrolinktrains.com)
Metrolink is Southern California’s commuter rail service enabling people to connect to their jobs and explore all that the region has to offer. Every year, Metrolink has nearly 12 million boardings from people who ditch their cars to avoid gridlock, removing an estimated 9.3 million vehicles from the roads and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 130,000 metric tons. Metrolink is the largest commuter rail agency in California and the third largest in the United States operating seven lines along a 538-mile network that travels across Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties.
ABOUT AUTO CLUB SPEEDWAY (autoclubspeedway.com)
Located 50 miles east of Los Angeles in Fontana, Auto Club Speedway is California’s premier motorsports facility, hosting over 320 days of track activity each year including the NASCAR Cup Series Auto Club 400 weekend – Feb. 28-March 1, 2020. The two-mile D-shaped oval is one of the fastest tracks on the NASCAR circuit. The Speedway is also home to numerous movie, television and commercial productions, photo shoots, new car testing, club racing and a variety of racing schools. For more information on events at Auto Club Speedway call 1-800-944-RACE (7223) or visit autoclubspeedway.com.
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