| Race details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Race 10 of 36 in the2003 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season | |||
_-_Speedway.svg) Track map of the speedway at Auto Club Speedway AKA California Speedway | |||
| Date | April 27, 2003 (2003-04-27) | ||
| Official name | Auto Club 500 | ||
| Location | California Speedway,Fontana, California | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 2.0 miles (3.23 km) | ||
| Distance | 250 laps, 500 mi (804.672 km) | ||
| Average speed | 140.111 miles per hour (225.487 km/h) | ||
| Attendance | 120,000 | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Dale Earnhardt, Inc. | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Tony Stewart | Joe Gibbs Racing | |
| Laps | 100 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 97 | Kurt Busch | Roush Racing | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | Fox Broadcasting Company | ||
| Announcers | Mike Joy,Darrell Waltrip andLarry McReynolds | ||
The2003 Auto Club 500 was aNASCARWinston Cup Series stock carrace held on April 27, 2003, atCalifornia Speedway inFontana, California. Contested over 250 laps on the 2-mile (3.23 km) asphalt D-shaped oval, it was the tenth race of the2003 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season.Steve Park ofDEI won thepole.Kurt Busch ofRoush Racing won the race. This was also the last race forJerry Nadeau. His career ended with an injury during practice at Richmond.
The track,California Speedway, was a four-turnsuperspeedway that was 2 miles (3.2 km) long.[1] The track's turns werebanked from fourteendegrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, was banked at eleven degrees. Unlike the front stretch, the backstraightaway was banked at three degrees.
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