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Coronado Street Course

NASCAR's newest street circuit: 3.4 miles of base roads and taxiways at Naval Air Station North Island, threading between aircraft carrier berths and the Halsey Field runways on an active Navy installation.

Length
5.472 km
3.4 mi
Turns
16
Direction
Anticlockwise
In use
2026-present

Coronado Street Course

The Coronado Street Course, raced as the Qualcomm Circuit at Naval Base Coronado, debuted on June 19-21, 2026 on the roads and taxiways of Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego. Laid out by NASCAR in partnership with iRacing, whose LiDAR scans and simulator testing shaped the design before a single barrier was placed, the anticlockwise lap runs 3.4 mi (5.472 km) over 16 turns: the longest course on the 2026 NASCAR schedule and the third longest track in NASCAR history. The event replaced the Chicago Street Race and was timed to the US Navy’s 250th anniversary, bringing NASCAR’s national series to an active military installation for the first time.

Carrier Corner

The lap leaves the Ellyson Start/Finish Line, named for Commander Theodore G. Ellyson, Naval Aviator Number One, and works through square corners at Rogers Road before the long run up Murray Avenue to Carrier Corner (Turn 5), a sharp left-hander threaded between the docking berths of two aircraft carriers on San Diego Bay. The blast that follows is one of the fastest stretches of the lap.

Chicanes and Runway Road

The far end of the course belongs to the Coronado Chicane at Turns 8 and 9, two wide corners likened to the first and last turns at Sebring, chased by the quick Turn 10-11 esses. A hard left at Turn 12 then sends the field down Runway Road past the Halsey Field runway, and a second, unnumbered chicane interrupts the taxiway run home ahead of the final corner.

Race the Base

Motorsport at the base is not new: the Coronado Speed Festival brought SVRA vintage racing to a 1.7 mi (2.736 km), nine-turn airfield course here from 1997 to 2016. The 2026 revival doubled the course length and raised the stakes. In the inaugural Anduril 250 Race the Base, Corey Heim took his first Cup Series victory, while Trackhouse debutant Kevin Magnussen set the fastest lap at 2:12.485.

Corner-by-corner

  • T1

    Turn 1

    • Right

    A sweeping right-hander on Tow Way shortly after the Ellyson Start/Finish Line, feeding a short chute toward the square corners at Rogers Road; the racing surface is at its widest here.

  • T2

    Turn 2

    • Left

    A 90-degree left-hander turning onto Rogers Road, the first of two quick square lefts that end the run from the start/finish line.

  • T3

    Turn 3

    • Left

    The second 90-degree left-hander in quick succession, turning off Rogers Road onto 2nd Street.

  • T4

    Turn 4

    • Right

    A 90-degree right-hander onto Murray Avenue that builds speed into the long straightaway toward the carrier berths; railroad tracks cross the racing surface near the corner.

  • T5

    Carrier Corner

    • Left

    A sharp left-hander positioned between the docking berths of two aircraft carriers at the end of the Murray Avenue straight; the circuit's signature corner, releasing the field onto one of the fastest stretches of the lap.

    Carrier Corner gives the course its identity: the turn threads between the berths where aircraft carriers dock on San Diego Bay, a backdrop no other circuit on the NASCAR schedule can match. The stretch that follows it is one of the quickest sections of the 3.4-mile lap.

  • T6

    Turn 6

    • Right

    A sharp right-hander taken in quick succession with Turn 7; the course narrows noticeably from this section onward.

  • T7

    Turn 7

    • Left

    The left-hand half of the quick Turn 6 and 7 combination, releasing the field onto the run along the northern edge of the base toward the Coronado Chicane.

  • T8

    Coronado Chicane

    • Left

    The opening left-hander of the Coronado Chicane, the two-corner complex at the far end of the course, described as having two wide corners akin to the first and last turns at Sebring.

  • T9

    Coronado Chicane

    • Right

    The second element of the Coronado Chicane, a right-hander immediately after the Turn 8 entry, completing the complex.

  • T10

    Turn 10

    • Left

    A left-hander opening the quick esses that follow the Coronado Chicane.

  • T11

    Turn 11

    • Right

    A tight right-hander closing the esses after the Coronado Chicane and pointing the field southwest toward Turn 12.

  • T12

    Turn 12

    • Left

    A hard left-hander onto the Runway Road section, followed by the straightaway that runs south past the Runway 18/36 threshold at Halsey Field.

  • T13

    Turn 13

    • Left

    A sweeping corner at the southern end of the Runway Road section, carrying the field off the airfield stretch and onto the taxiway that leads back toward the pits.

  • T14

    Turn 14

    • Right

    A sharp right-hander that drops the field off the Turn 13 sweep, taken in quick succession with the Turn 15 left.

  • T15

    Turn 15

    • Left

    A quick left-hander that turns the field onto the long taxiway run back toward the start/finish area.

  • Chicane

    • Chicane

    An unnumbered chicane on the taxiway between Turns 15 and 16, excluded from the official 16-turn count, with a change of pavement through it; the pit lane entry follows the chicane, ahead of the final corner.

  • T16

    Turn 16

    • Left

    The final corner, a left-hander at the end of the taxiway that opens onto the Tow Way front stretch and the run to the Ellyson Start/Finish Line.