Too wet to race

Two of the four drivers involved in a fiery crash in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at the newly named Auto Club Speedway said the track is not ready for a race.
It has been raining for the past two days at the track. The start of the race was delayed two and a half hours because of rain. Casey Mears spun out on lap 21 and hit the wall causing a crash that collected four cars. Dale Earnhardt Jr., Denny Hamlin and Reed Sorenson were also involved in the wreck.
Hornish ran underneath Mears's car and flipped it over. The cars caught on fire as the track emergency crews arrived to assist the drivers.
It looked like Mears's car hit a wet spot on the track before it spun out and hit the wall.
Hamlin and Earnhardt Jr. drove their cars to the garage for repairs.
"I think we can get back out there, but I think there are 42 other drivers that would agree that we should not be racing on that race track right now," Hamlin said. "I hit a slick spot and my car took off. You can see it on television -- right at the seems, it's seeping a lot of water. It hit a wet spot and I'm not going to be the last one. I'm not sure if that was the cause of that most recent crash, but it was the cause of ours."
Earnhardt Jr., a teammate of Mears at Hendrick Motorsports, was hit when Mears's car slid down the track after hitting the wall. He echoed Hamlin's assessment of the track conditions.
"We rushed into this. It’s a bad move," Earnhardt Jr. said.
Mears and Hornish were evaluated and released from the track's infield care center.
"There was nowhere to go either way," Hornish said. "Not a very good day. This doesn’t help us out much."