On January 10, 1997, Marlboro Team Penske's driver Paul Tracy became the first driver to test on the new speedway, NASCAR held its first open test session on at the track from May 5-7, The official opening and ribbon cutting ceremony was held on June 20, 1997, with the first race, a NASCAR West Series race, being held the next day.
The first NASCAR Winston Cup Series race (now the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series) was held on June 22, 1997, and the first NASCAR Busch Series (now the Xfinity Seriesrace was held on October 30, 1997.
Auto Club Speedway lost its playoff date in 2011.
The track length is , the interior test circuit is , the sports car course is , the Motorcycle course is , and the drag strip is .
Lawrence J. DeNardis
Lawrence Joseph "Larry" DeNardis (March 18, 1938 – August 24, 2018) was an American politician. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives for the state of Connecticut's 3rd congressional district from 1981 to 1983. He was also president of the University of New Haven.
He announced on January 12, 2010, that he was forming an exploratory committee to run for Governor of Connecticut in 2010 as a Republican.
DeNardis died from a short-illness in New Haven on August 24, 2018 at the age of 80.
Michael Stonebraker
Michael Ralph Stonebraker (born October 11, 1943) is an American computer scientist.
He is the founder of many database companies, including Ingres Corporation, Illustra, Paradigm4, StreamBase Systems, Tamr, Vertica and VoltDB, and served as chief technical officer of Informix. He is also an editor for the book "Readings in Database Systems".
Newburyport, Massachusetts
Newburyport is a small city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, northeast of Boston. The population was 17,416 at the 2010 census.
Denise Scott Brown
Denise Scott Brown (née Lakofski; born October 3, 1931) is an American architect, planner, writer, educator, and principal. She worked for the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates in Philadelphia. Scott Brown and her husband and partner, Robert Venturi, are thought as the most influential architects of the twentieth century.
Beverly Willis
Beverly Willis (born February 17, 1928) is an American architect. Beverly Willis’s life as an artist and architect begins here. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1928 and weaned on these Midwestern oil fields, Willis experienced an America awestruck by the machine, nostalgic for the days of westward expansion and determined to preserve its puritan ethic.
Her best known built-work is the San Francisco Ballet Building in San Francisco, California. She is the co-founder of the National Building Museum, in Washington, D.C., and founder of the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, a non-profit organization working to change the culture for women in the building industry through research and education.
Jacksonville Landing shooting
The Jacksonville Landing shooting was a mass shooting that happened on August 26, 2018, at a "Madden NFL 19" video game tournament at the Jacksonville Landing in Jacksonville, Florida. Three people were killed, including the shooter, and eleven others were injured.
The shooter, 24 year-old David Katz, was a competitor in the tournament who lost. He left and then came back with a gun and fired 12 shots. Katz was the only suspect and had only one handgun.
In addition to the gunman, two people were confirmed killed: Taylor Robertson, age 27, and Eli Clayton, age 22.
The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office urged individuals to stay away from the location at 2:13 p.m. EDT, and SWAT officers evacuated and searched the area.
U.S. President Donald Trump contacted Florida Governor Rick Scott, offering federal assistance in response to the shooting.
Elite Dangerous
Elite Dangerous or "Elite: Dangerous" is an online-only space adventure, trading, and combat simulation video game made by Frontier Developments. The player is a spaceship pilot in a realistic recreation of the Milky Way. The people who made the game designed it to be very close to a exact copy of the Milky Way as possible.
Margarita Mamun
Margarita "Rita" Mamun (born November 1, 1995 in Moscow, Russia) is a retired Russian rhythmic gymnast. She won a gold medal in the individual all-around competition at the 2016 Rio Olympics. She has won fourteen World Championships medals, including two all-around silver medals in 2014 and 2015. Mamun starred in the documentary film "Over the Limit."
Mamun has a Bangladeshi father and a Russian mother. Her mother is a former rhythmic gymnast. Mamun began training in rhythmic gymnastics when she was seven years old. As a junior gymnast, Mamun represented Bangladesh for one year. As a senior gymnast, she represented Russia. Mamun became a senior gymnast in 2011. That year, she won a bronze medal in the all-around and a gold medal in ball finals at the Montreal World Cup. In 2011, she was ranked twenty-second in the world. In 2012, Mamun won three bronze medals at the Deriugina World Cup. She also won the all-around gold at the Sofia World Cup, and won the team gold medal at the Aeon Cup. Mamun was ranked seventeenth in the world in 2012. She did not compete at the 2012 London Olympics.
In 2013, Mamun competed at the Moscow Grand Prix and won the all-around gold medal. She also won three gold medals and one bronze in the apparatus finals. At the 2013 European Championships, Mamun and her teammates won team gold for Russia. She won a gold medal and three silver medals in the apparatus finals. Mamun competed at the 2013 Summer Universiade, where she won all-around gold and three gold medals in the apparatus finals. At the 2013 World Championships, Mamun won two gold medals and a bronze in the apparatus finals. She was ranked first in the world during the 2013 season.
In 2014, Mamun again competed at the Moscow Grand Prix and won the all-around gold medal. She won three gold medals and one silver in the apparatus finals. Mamun competed at the 2014 European Championships, but only placed fifth in the all-around. At the 2014 World Championships, Mamun and her teammates won team gold. Mamun won the all-around silver medal, as well as two gold medals and two silvers in the apparatus finals. She was ranked second in the world in 2014.
In 2015, she won gold in the all-around, ribbon final and hoop final at the Moscow Grand Prix. She also won bronze in the ball final. At the 2015 European Championships, Mamun and her teammates won team gold. She won gold in the hoop final and silver in the ball final. In 2015, the European Games were held for the first time. Mamun competed at the European Games and won the all-around silver and a gold medal in the hoop final. At the 2015 World Championships, Mamun and her teammates won team gold. Mamun won a gold medal and three silver medals. She was awarded the Longines Prize for Elegance. Mamun was ranked second in the world in 2015.
In 2016, Mamun won the all-around silver at the Russian Championships. She also won the all-around silver at the 2016 European Championships. She won gold in the all-around at the 2016 Baku World Cup, and set a record by scoring the highest number of points ever in the all-around. Mamun competed in the 2016 Rio Olympics. She won the individual all-around gold medal and set an Olympic record, scoring the highest number of points ever at an Olympic Games. Mamun was ranked first in the world during the 2016 season. Sadly, two days after she won gold at the Olympics, Mamun's father died.
Shortly after the 2016 Olympics, Mamun became engaged to Alexandr Sukhorukov. She married him in 2017. On November 4, 2017, Russian coach Irina Viner announced that Mamun was retiring from gymnastics.
Henrik Thrap-Meyer
Henrik Thrap-Meyer (31 July 1833 – 29 December 1910) was a Norwegian architect. He is most associated with a wide range of significant buildings, including churches and schools.