Irwindale Event Center

Address: 500 Speedway Drive Irwindale California 91706

NASCAR Camping World West Series

34.109444 - 117.988054Koordinaten: 34 ° 6 ' 34 "N, 117 ° 59' 17 " W

Toyota Speedway at Irwindale is a motorsports facility in Irwindale, California, which consists of two paved ovals and a dragster track. The Oval is a 0.53 km (0.33 miles) long, the other, larger, 0.8 km (0.5 miles) long. The motor sports facility is mainly used for race of the NASCAR and USAC.

Since 2003, on the larger oval of the Toyota All-Star Showdown, a special event of the NASCAR discharged. At the Toyota All-Star Showdown, the best drivers in the NASCAR regional series take part, this includes, among others, the NASCAR Camping World West Series. But the master of the Canadian NASCAR championship and Mexican NASCAR championship are eligible. In addition, the Irwindale Speedway is the venue of the Turkey Night races that already known drivers like Tony Stewart and Jason Leffler took part.

The 0.2 -kilometer-long drag racing track was opened in 2003 and is open to road-legal cars. Thus, the track owner, prevent illegal street race, which hitherto existed in the area, as yet there was no such facility.

The track is also the venue for a D1 Grand Prix race, a drift race. In 2003, the first time such a race in Irwindale took place, which was watched by 10,000 spectators at the track. Since the interest was so great find since every year in February D1 Grand Prix race at the track instead. Moreover, since is the finale of a further U.S. drift racing series, Formula D, played on the Irwindale Speedway.

In 2003, Cliff Lett presented on the installation to a new speed record for radio controlled model car. His car reached it a speed of 173.63 km / h