Sonoma Raceway
Driver Car Date Speed Time Layout
Fastest qualifying lap Allan McNish Audi R8 July 23 , 2000 1:20.683 4.05 km ( Full )
Fastest racing lap Marco Werner Audi R8 July 17 , 2004 110.641 miles per hour ( 178.06 km/h ) 1:21.688 4.05 km ( Full )
Trans-Am qualifying Brian Simo Qvale Mangusta July 22 , 2001 1:35.727 4.05 km ( Full )
NASCAR qualifying Kyle Larson Chevrolet June 22 , 2019 95.901 miles per hour ( 154.34 km/h ) 1:34.598 4.05 km ( Full )
NASCAR race Ernie Irvan Chevrolet Lumina June 7 , 1992 81.413 miles per hour ( 131.02 km/h ) 2:17:26 4.05 km ( Full )
IndyCar qualifying Josef Newgarden Dallara DW12 Chevrolet September 16 , 2017 113.691 miles per hour ( 182.97 km/h ) 1:15.5205 3.838 km ( Indy )
IndyCar race Scott Dixon Dallara Honda September 17 , 2018 98.6 miles per hour ( 158.68 km/h ) 1:19:8646 3.57 km ( Indy )
WTCC qualifying Alain Menu Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T September 22 , 2012 86.206 miles per hour ( 138.74 km/h ) 1:45.235 4.032 km ( WTCC )
WTCC race Tiago Monteiro Honda Civic WTCC September 10 , 2013 84.206 miles per hour ( 135.52 km/h ) 1:46.905 4.032 km ( WTCC )
AMA Pro Superbike Ben Spies Suzuki GSXR-1000 May 17 , 2008 1:34.731 3.57 km ( Motorcycle )
Pirelli World Challenge GTS Race Jack Baldwin Porsche Cayman S PWC August 23 , 2013 69.583 miles per hour ( 111.98 km/h ) 1:42.558 km ( PWC )
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Sonoma Raceway, formerly Sears Point Raceway and Infineon Raceway is a road course and drag strip located on the landform known as Sears Point in the southern Sonoma Mountains in Sonoma, California, USA. The road course features 12 turns on a hilly course with of total elevation change. It is host to one of only three Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series races each year that are run on road courses (the others being Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, New York and the Bank of America Roval 400 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Charlotte, North Carolina). It is also host to the Verizon IndyCar Series, the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, and several other auto races and motorcycle races such as the American Federation of Motorcyclists series. Sonoma Raceway continues to host amateur, or club racing events which may or may not be open to the general public. The largest such car club is the Sports Car Club of America. With the closure of Riverside International Raceway in Moreno Valley, California after the 1988 season, NASCAR, wanting a west coast road course event to replace it, chose the Sears Point facility. Riverside Raceway was razed for a shopping center and houses. In 2002, Sears Point Raceway was renamed after a corporate sponsor, Infineon. However, as with many renamings of sports complexes, many people still call it by its original name. (It was never affiliated with Sears, Roebuck and Company, having been named for the nearby Sears Point Ranch founded in the 1850s by settler Franklin Sears.) On March 7, 2012, it was announced that Infineon would not renew their contract for naming rights when the deal expired in May, and the track management is looking for a new company to take over naming rights.