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Sonoma Raceway is a racing sports club in America, situated in Sears Point, California, in the southern Sonoma Mountains of Sonoma Country, California. Sonoma Raceway was known as Sears Point from 1967 to 1980 and from 1982 to 2002, for a year in 1981, Golden State Raceway was named after Sears Point. Jim Coleman Kentfield and advocate Point Reyes Robert Marshall jointly constructed a 2.520-mile (4.056-km) road racetrack (2.9 km2). Both of them came up with an idea during the hunting trip. The track finished paving the racetrack in November 1968, after breaking ground. The road course has 12 turns and an overall elevation change of 160 feet (49 meters) over its hilly terrain.

On December 1, 1968, an SCCA Enduro took place in Sears Point for the first time as a formal event. Every year it has organized many NASCAR Cup Series races that took place on the road courses. In addition, the IndyCar Series and NHRA Camping World Racing Series were organized, along with many other auto and motorcycle races, including the American Federation of Motorcycles. Sonoma Raceway still hosts non-professional or club sporting events, some of which are available to the general public.

The Los Angeles-based entertainment corporation, Filmways Corp., bought the racetrack for $4.5 million in 1969. The racetrack was shut down and changed into a tax haven for Filmways in May 1970 after $300,000 in losses were disclosed. In 1973, Parker Archer and Hugh Harn of Belvedere of Napa negotiated a contract for the track's lease from Filmways. In 1974, Bill Benck and his ally, Bob Bondurant, the owner and operator of the Bob Bondurant School of High-Performance Driving, took control and function of the mortgage raceway from Parker Archer and Hugh Harn. A few years later, for an alleged figure of $1.5 million, Black Mountain Inc., which comprised Howard Meister of Newport Beach, William J. Kolb of Del Mar, and Bondurant Howard Meister of Newport Beach, bought the track from Filmways. 

Following a financial disagreement with the Black Mountain group, Filmways regained ownership of the racetrack in 1981. For a year, the racetrack was named Golden State Raceway. A 1964 NHRA top-fuel drag racing winner Jack Williams, John Andersen, and Rick Betts bought the track from Filmways in the amount of $800,000 during an auction. Sears Point Global Raceway was the new name of the raceway after that. In 1985, the "Pave the Point" fundraising initiative raised funds to repave the entire runway in the buildings and main paddock areas A, B, C, and D. Riverside International Raceway in Moreno Valley, California, closed after the 1988 season. NASCAR wanted to replace it with a West Coast road course event and decided on the Sears Point venue. To build the Moreno Valley Mall, they had the Riverside Raceway demolished. A beautification project that included the installation of a 62-foot (19 m) high, four-sided computerized lap leader board cost more than $1 million in 1994. Later, a $3 million renovation added a two-story driver's lounge, VIP rooms, and an emergency medical facility. In 1995, Sears Point scheduled the crucial event for the NASCAR Craftsmen Truck Series after the SportsCar and Trans-Am races took place on the racetrack.

In November 1996, owner "Skip" Berg Bruton sold the track to Smith, chairman of Speedway Motorsports. For modernization purposes, Sears Point started the creation of "the Chute," a high-speed stretch of 890 feet (270 m). They built the chute primarily to improve competition, increase speed for the stock cars, which aren't always ready for road course racing, and increase spectator visibility. The inaugural race of the American Le Mans Series occurred in July 1999 in Sears Point. The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors approved it unanimously by a 5-0 vote for Sears Point to start work on a $35 million transformation plan that included resurfacing of both roads and dragstrip, 64,000 Hillside terrace seats, and increased run-off around the whole track,

Infineon Technologies purchased Sears Point Raceway naming rights in 2002 and changed its name to Infineon Technologies. Before abandoning the event, the Sonoma Grand Prix moved to the Rolex Sports Car Series, which restricted Daytona Prototypes in 2008. However, since 2010, the course has seen a slight revival, with the track becoming a sponsor of several events and hosting a growing number of smaller series, including the return of the WTCC and SCCA World Challenge. The year 2012 saw the end of Infineon as the corporate sponsor, with the track renaming itself Sonoma Raceway. On March 7, 2012, Infineon revealed that when the contract expires, it will not extend its naming rights agreement in May 2012.