Irwindale Speedway
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Irwindale Speedway is a motorsports facility located in Irwindale, California. It features banked, paved 1/2 and 1/3 mile oval tracks. It is mainly used for USAC sprint car and regional NASCAR races.
Drag racing is presented at this facility as well. 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.
The venue is also known for drift events, when it hosted D1 Grand Prix's first oversea event in 2003, with a sell-out crowd attendance of 10,000, it had surpassed all other event 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 the domestic series, Formula D event. Since then, the venue has been expanded to accommodate 15,000 spectators.