One Of California’s Best Speedways Is Closing

The speedway’s Goodbye Extravaganza on December 21 will certainly include a number of occasions for the sendoff, like Figure-8 racing, wandering, and the ARCA Menard Collection West. Irwindale will certainly start selling tickets for the last event on November 8.

Kevin Harvick’s Kern Raceway will take control of the possessions and events for 2025 and beyond. Motor1 has actually called the raceway concerning its plans for the residential property, and we’ll upgrade the tale if we hear back. We hope it does not turn into one of the other plenty of abandoned tracks that trash the nation.

The Irwindale Speedway and Dragstrip will certainly shut at the end of the 2024 season. On Tuesday, the Irwindale Speedway and Event Center introduced the decision alongside plans for the track’s last occasion– a Farewell Extravaganza set for December 21.

The center, located in Southern California, opened in 1999 and has encountered feasible closures in the past, consisting of in late 2017 when the current administration took over. It has actually held various automobile events and races over its 25-year history, including NASCAR, Solution Drift– providing the place the title “Your home of Drift,” demolition derbies, and drag racing.

Occasions will continue over the following couple of weeks, consisting of Thursday Evening Thunders, offering motorists their last run down the dragstrip on December 5. The Mooneyes Xmas Celebration is the strip’s final hurrah, set for December 7.