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SAVE IRWINDALE SPEEDWAY
Our tumblr hopes to bring awareness to people about the negative consequences of street racing, and we hope to encourage our readers into joining the fight against the closure of Irwindale Speedway.
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The Skate Park of Drift Tracks
The Formula Drift season wrapped up back in October at Irwindale Speedway here is a throwback video made by Nitto Tires as they talked with professional drifters Vaughn Gittin Jr and Matt Powers about the "House of Drift." It's an extremely challenging track, but also an extremely exhilarating one. Powers thinks it's the skate parks of drift tracks, and he's probably right. Irwindale Speedway will be missed!
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Memories at Irwindale
Tires screeching, clouds of smoke, and cars crashing Irwindale Speedway was the place where I first witness drifting live in person back in 2003. The memories at Irwindale will live with me forever. I have been attending every drift event at Irwindale Speedway since the beginning.
The first D1 Grand Prix professional drifting series took place in the USA on August 31, 2003 at Irwindale Speedway produced by American marketing company, Slipstream Global. Slipstream Global would later create the Formula Drift Championship in 2004. With a sellout crowd of ten thousand, which broke the record for the Irwindale Speedway venue and the series, this venue became the series' opening round in 2004. As popularity of the track grew for drifting it became nicknamed the House of Drift.
For the past fourteen years Formula Drift has had its final round of the series to crown the points leader champion at Irwindale Speedway. Its been great being able to have a track to go to within the L.A area and it will be sad to have to say goodbye. It was an honor for me to be able to promote drift events at Irwindale for Formula Drift.
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Street Racing And Car Accidents
We all know street racing is dangerous. However, many times when people are participating in bad activities such as street racing they fail to think about the consequences. Some of the consequences of street racing are injury, license revoke, jail time, and lastly death.
Below I will post some tragic images of the aftermath of street racing.
So as you can see street racing is extremely bad. That is why we encourage all of you race and car enthusiast to really try to fight for a place where this came be done with moire safety measures such as Irwindale Speedway.
Some tips to avoid street racing
1. When a car pulls up on you on the freeway or red light ignore them and continue going at regular speed.
2. Drive at the speed limit
3. Think about yourself and your family
Although, these tips sound like common sense many people still ignore them. However, we hope if you're reading this and seeing the images will help you see that it is not worth it.
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Get Ready everyone! We have a fun filled November! #saveirwindale #dragstrip #irwindalespeedway #smoketires #savelives #musclecars #imports #carguys #cargirls #dragrace #jdm_daily #mkt3810 #jdmgram #irwindale_event_center #americanmusclehd #midweststreets #speedsociety #drift #drifting #driftcar #mopar #srtaaddicts #musclecarzone #formuladrift #racingfx #turbo #streetcar #streetlegal #twinturbo #supercharged #blown #bigblocks #hemi #1320video #speedhunters #superstreet #widebody #dragracing (at Irwindale Event Center)
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Ever thought about stage racing? Well before you pursue it, make sure you follow these safety tips giving to us by @irwindale_event_center http://www.irwindalespeedway.com/dragstrip/howto.html
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History of Irwindale Speedway
The Irwindale Event Center (a.k.a. Irwindale Speedway and Irwindale Dragstrip) is a motorsports facility located in Irwindale, California, United States. It opened on March 27, 1999 under the official name Irwindale Speedway. Toyota purchased the naming rights to the facility in 2008, and from that time until 2011 it was also known as the Toyota Speedway at Irwindale.
The speedway features banked, paved 1/2- and 1/3-mile oval tracks and a 1/8-mile drag strip. From its opening until 2011 it was primarily used for NASCAR races such as NASCAR K&N Pro Series West and Whelen All-American Series events. In late 2011, NASCAR announced it was dropping Toyota Speedway from its schedule. The company that manages the track, Irwindale Speedway LLC, filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy on February 13, 2012.
In January 2013, it was announced that the track would be re-opening as the Irwindale Event Center, and would operate as a Whelen All-American Series venue for the 2013 season. For the past decade, the Formula Drift Championship Series has featured sold out events at the venue.
In 2015, plans were made to demolish Irwindale Speedway and build an outlet mall on the site of the track. As of 2016, the track is still open for business. On August 9, 2017 it was officially announced that as of January 31, 2018, Jim Cohan, CEO of Team 211 Entertainment, who operates the track under the name of Irwindale Event Center, would cease operation.
Drag strip
The 1/8-mile drag racing strip opened on September 29, 2001. In 2003, in cooperation with local law enforcement, Irwindale Speedway opened its own dragstrip and hosts legal drag races for street-legal cars, trucks, and motorcycles. The dragstrip is proud to extinguish the "nowhere else to go" excuse used by illegal street racers, and local police often hand out flyers to offenders for free entry into drag races at the dragstrip to promote safe racing.
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The House of Drift
The venue is also known for drifting events; when it hosted D1 Grand Prix's first overseas event in 2003, with a sell-out crowd attendance of 10,000, it had surpassed all other events Irwindale hosted in the past, the previous being 8,700. Since then, it has become the series regular opening round in February and a non championship event in December and has also hosted a round of the domestic series, Formula Drift. The venue has been expanded to accommodate 15,000 spectators. The circuit is regarded as one of the most popular courses for crowds and drivers despite the unforgiving concrete wall which drivers usually brush through with their rear bumpers. Because of its popularity, the circuit is nicknamed the House of Drift.
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Possible closure and demolition
In September 2013, the property housing the Irwindale Event Center was purchased by Irwindale Outlet Partners, LLC for $22 million. The lease for the Irwindale Event Center continued on a year-by-year basis. In March 2015, plans were made to demolish Irwindale Speedway and replace it with Irwindale Outlet Center, an outlet mall, but the closure has been delayed. The track is currently running the 2017 season. On August 9th, 2017, Cohan made an announcement in an e-mailed statement saying that the track was closing down officially in January 2018.
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