The control tower at Buttonwillow Raceway Park.

Buttonwillow Raceway Park is a motorsports park in Kern County, California, 10 miles (16 km) north of the town of Buttonwillow and 28 miles (45 km) northwest of Bakersfield. Kern County is a County located in the southern Central Valley of the U California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. Buttonwillow is a Census-designated place (CDP in Kern County, California, United States. Owned and operated by the California Sports Car Club, a region of SCCA, Buttonwillow is the "flagship" track of Cal Club, and is also the location of the Club's administrative offices. The Sports Car Club of America ( SCCA) is a club and sanctioning body supporting Road racing, rally, and Autocross in the United States

Located in the central part of California, Buttonwillow Raceway is approximately 4-5 hours drive from San Francisco and San Diego, and approximately 2 hours from Los Angeles. It is located 1/2 mile west of Interstate 5 on Lerdo Highway, and its main feature - the race control tower - can be seen from at least two miles (3 km) going either direction on the interstate. Interstate 5 (I-5 is the main Interstate highway on the West Coast of the United States, paralleling the Pacific Ocean from Canada to Mexico When events are held here, most stay either in RVs, fifth-wheel trailers or the specially-constructed worker compound (or "worker village") on the track grounds, or in the hotels on Highway 58 in Buttonwillow itself. State Route 58 is an East - West Highway across the southern San Joaquin Valley, the Tehachapi Mountains, which border the

External Links

• Official Track Website
• Trackpedia guide to driving this track

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