Auto Club Speedway Launches "Buy Ticket, Get NOTHING" Marketing Campaign

[MattSRD28]

These people are seriously on drugs.

SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, Calif. (Jan. 10, 2011) – In the past, Auto Club Speedway has given race fans who purchased tickets on “Ticket Tuesdays” such goodies as zucchinis, pirate hats and pizzas – all in an effort to help celebrate “National Days” like ‘Sneak a Zucchini onto Your Neighbors Porch Day’, ‘Talk Like a Pirate Day’ and ‘National Pizza with Everything (Except Anchovies) Day.’

Some have deemed our promotion ‘dumb’ (and that’s putting it nicely). So for all those who have that kind of attitude, purchase a $35 ticket any Tuesday in January and help us celebrate “National Nothing Day” on January 16th by getting NOTHING (except of course the ticket you purchase). That’s right, buy a ticket to the March 27th Auto Club 500 at Auto Club Speedway and get no cupcakes, no tacos, no ice cream. You’ll get NOTHING and like it.

But for those of you who think our promotion is clever, purchase a ticket on any Tuesday in February or March and we’ll reward you for your support.

February is “National Plum Pudding Day (12), National Gum Drop Day (15), National Chocolate Mint Day (19), National Tortilla Chip Day (24), National Pistachio Day (26) and National Surf and Turf Day (29). If you celebrate this month correctly, you’re definitely going to have stomach issues. We’re here to help. Purchase a ticket to the March 27th Auto Club 500 and we’ll reward you for buying and ticket AND celebrating February with an antacid for your possible bloating, indigestion and gas.

Extraterrestrial Abductions Day is March 20th and there’s no doubt UFOs and aliens will be out in full force looking to abduct humans. For those of you who don’t duck, dodge or hide well enough or for those who forget to put on their protective anti-alien amulet, purchase a ticket on any Tuesday in March and we’ll give you a three-in-one – compass, whistle and light – to help you find your way back from Mars, Jupiter or wherever it is you disappeared to … and strangely reappeared from ...


For numerous ticket packages starting as low as $35 visit Auto Club Speedway - Auto Club Speedway or call 800-944-RACE (7223).

I see tracks around the country offering smart and useful ticket deals, and then I see my home track pulling this kind of stuff. Is ACS' management all three years old? Why not put this effort into actually providing some decent at the track services? What if the money used to do this was used to, say, help decrease the cost of a 20oz Pepsi at the track, which I'm told is $4?

This coming from the track whose President was "excited" to lose its Chase race, and "thrilled" to be able show off SoCal's "Chamber of Commerce weather" during its one remaining date in March. It is downright embarassing to have to point to this track as my home track.

It's a great shame that this is the only major NASCAR track for the 2nd largest media market in the USA. Just take the race away from this group of clowns, give it to Toyota (Irwindale) Speedway, and make it the Bristol of the West Coast.

 

[Mike24]

NASCAR needs a presence in SoCal...but ACS is not what it needs.


I'd love for someone to look into renovating Irwindale to upgrade it/the facilities enough to accommodate a Cup series weekend.

 

[4WideRacing]

That is crazy! Maybe Jeremy Mayfield could get a job there if he is really on drugs.

 

[Alan Harkleroad]

Agreed! "Just take the race away from this group of clowns, give it to Toyota (Irwindale) Speedway, and make it the Bristol of the West Coast."

 

[dalejrgamer]

Here's a better idea: rebuild Riverside

 

[dalejrgamer]

Hell, talk with the city of Long Beach and see if they're okay about putting a NASCAR race on the streets of Long Beach.

 

[Cheeze]

WTF? They can't be serious. "we’ll reward you for buying and ticket AND celebrating February with an antacid for your possible bloating, indigestion and gas. " That made my day right there. Haha

 

[Fisha695]

Maybe it speaks for my personality but I like their attitude... "You want something to bi*** about I'll give you something to bi*** about!"

 

[Chevellion]

Southern California has always been a weird sports market...they're perfectly happy with their basketball and baseball...but football and auto racing can't hold an audience. It's strange.

That being said I would never see a race at Auto Club even if I was paid to do so.

 

[MattSRD28]

Here's a better idea: rebuild Riverside

If Infineon didn't already exist, I'd agree with that. Nascar basically moved from Riverside to Sears Point in response to Riverside's closing. Infineon fits the traditional presence of a CA road course on the schedule.

Riverside in its old location would never work. The location is much too far away/inaccessible from the rest of SoCal.

Agreed! "Just take the race away from this group of clowns, give it to Toyota (Irwindale) Speedway, and make it the Bristol of the West Coast."

Just drove by Toyota Speedway last night, noticed an electronic sign advertising the race track's presence and 2011 racing season events from the 605 freeway, and thought, "Good Lord. ACS doesn't even have THAT!"

ACS is such an absolute joke compared to any other Cup track, but no one here realizes it since no fan who goes to ACS likely goes to any other Nascar racetrack since no other major track is within 350 miles, and thus doesn't know what they are missing. Same goes for the drivers/teams/media who just helicopter in/out of every track, and gloss them all over except for tracks like Martinsville with well-estabished traditions and local racers.

Hell, talk with the city of Long Beach and see if they're okay about putting a NASCAR race on the streets of Long Beach.

Nascar stock cars just aren't designed for a street circuit. The local roads here are routinely destroyed by overweight big rigs which, combined with brainless state/local governments, cause CA to have the poorest quality roads of any state in the country.

You think the Daytona pothole was embarassing? I don't even want to think about what could happen if 3,600lb. stock cars were unleashed on our streets.

WTF? They can't be serious. "we’ll reward you for buying and ticket AND celebrating February with an antacid for your possible bloating, indigestion and gas. " That made my day right there. Haha

This is how I know ACS could do better but is actively choosing not to. If they have the time to sit around and think up asinine stuff like this, they have the time to really think about how their racetrack could improve. Their choice is made abundantly clear in stupid stunts like this, and every other aspect of how they operate that facility.

Sometimes I wonder if Roger Penske ever feels any sense of shame or embarassment at the sight of what his buyers have done with this track that his company originally built. ACS is a GREAT facility but it's being run like how a bunch of 2nd graders would run Yankee Stadium if given the chance. The examples of sheer, naked idiocy just keep on coming.

 

[Fisha695]

CA to have the poorest quality roads of any state in the country. .

I take if you've never been to PA?

 

[MattSRD28]

I take if you've never been to PA?

I was referring to Reason Foundation's Annual Highway Report. Pennsylvania is 38th, but CA is 48th, behind only Rhode Island & Alaska. We're worse than NY or Hawaii!

Motorists in California and Hawaii have to look out for the most potholes on urban Interstates. In those two states, 25 percent of urban interstate pavement is in poor condition.

CA has a LOT of urban interstate pavement, much moreso than the amount in Hawaii. Just look at a map of CA's freeways, SoCal in particular, and think what it means to have 25% of that in poor condition.

And we're accomplishing this while spending $545,000 PER MILE!

California spends $545,000 per mile.

How? It happens because some people in gov't agencies believe our money is their money to do whatever they want with, instead of what they should be doing with it.

California also squanders a massive amount of transportation money that never makes it onto roads, spending $93,464 in administrative costs for every mile of state road.

Did I mention that CA faces a $20something BILLION budget deficit? Can't wait to see what happens to our roads when the funding goes down, but the waste doesn't!

 

[David24]

Just drove by Toyota Speedway last night, noticed an electronic sign advertising the race track's presence and 2011 racing season events from the 605 freeway, and thought, "Good Lord. ACS doesn't even have THAT!"

Taken from I-10

 

[MattSRD28]

^ I stand corrected about the sign, but I wonder where it is? If it's east of I-15, then it may as well be on the moon since the only traffic on I-10 east of I-15 is either Fontana/Redlands local, or interstate. Maybe 0.00004% of people who do go, or would go, to ACS.

I drive to/from Ontario regularly, and I've never once seen that sign.

 

[Jordan Robson]

A NASCAR race in Irwindale would be total win.

 

[David24]

^ I stand corrected about the sign, but I wonder where it is? If it's east of I-15, then it may as well be on the moon since the only traffic on I-10 east of I-15 is either Fontana/Redlands local, or interstate. Maybe 0.00004% of people who do go, or would go, to ACS.

I drive to/from Ontario regularly, and I've never once seen that sign.

Well every time I go to Banning/Beaumont area I see the sign. I'm not really familiar with the Ontario area but it seems I-10 gets a lot of traffic but I wouldn't know. I'm more familiar with Anaheim.

The sign is on the north side of 10 but I think it's on the east side of the 15. I'm not too sure.

 

[celticfang]

Is ACS stuck in the 90s?

Oh if only Roger Penske was still in control, he'd get rid of BS deals

 

[WinstonCup426]

Wait...if they get nothing, does that mean they don't even get to go to the race?

Either way, this is still dumb.

 

[canadienhits]

I remember 10 months ago we were talking about ACS, and saying they couldn't get any dumber...well.....

 

[Cheeze]

I remember 10 months ago we were talking about ACS, and saying they couldn't get any dumber...well.....

A sign of the Apocalypse, no doubt.