**ATT: SoCal irwindale speedway CLOSING**

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Just got word of this in the news and official word will be out Monday.
This doesn't look good for SoCal another track gone to the few we have left

Irwindale Speedway appears to be closing track - LA Daily News (http://www.dailynews.com/sports/ci_19947581)

[future]

So what happenes to formula d now?

[all show no go]

So what happenes to formula d now?



Streets of Irwindale??? =I


Say it isn't so..

[zspeedrft]

sucks major balls....

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No fucking way!?! Faaaaack :(

[HyperTek]

Not enough support, how many nascar races have you guys gone to there? Probably none, except the small drift events held there.

[rob22]

some company will buy it.

[yetijeff]

Another one bites the dust. What a shame 

[cbcm2435]

some rich person that has always wanted to own a race track will buy it

[TougeLove]

me^ and ill invite everyone talking shit on here to prove themselves, then have a slime tank if you loose like on double dare. then the loser has to drive their slimy car off my property cuz its mine lol

[Lil_D]

^ i like that idea

[jdm2191]

this is not cool at all :(

[lude4life13]

A lot of drifting guys use this.. I hope they dont resort to using the streets now.

[rat240]

its not like irwindale catered to the daily drifter

[Functiontheory]

I'm sure it will be ok, people will figure it out. Drifting wont die. It does suck a lot, but we will overcome. And FD will find another place bigger and better I'm sure.


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[s13 @ fullboost]

irwindale was really fun i will miss it =/

[Flicktitty]

Not enough support, how many nascar races have you guys gone to there? Probably none, except the small drift events held there.
Exactly, I'm not from the area, But i'm assuming if it's anything like the local tracks around here they have a weekly or bi-weekly circle track racing event that if people don't show up to why would they stay open to keep some kids happy for a handfull of drifting events a year.

[DJ-of-E]

I'm sure it will be ok, people will figure it out. Drifting wont die. It does suck a lot, but we will overcome. And FD will find another place bigger and better I'm sure.


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Most likely Fontana Speedway. They have a lot of traffic for Auto-X and track events going on a weekly basis.

[pacotaco345]

So what happenes to formula d now?

FD Willow Springs!!!

[HyperTek]

Exactly, I'm not from the area, But i'm assuming if it's anything like the local tracks around here they have a weekly or bi-weekly circle track racing event that if people don't show up to why would they stay open to keep some kids happy for a handfull of drifting events a year.

I will miss it, I attended alot of the Formula D, D1, and even Drift Showoff events there. As well as done my first track event there years ago. But those where not nascar events, which was their main sponsor.. Once their main sponsors drop out, they don't see much revenue from other events I guess. I don't like short tracks for nascar imo it is just too small , id rather go to Autoclub speedway and see cars doing like 200mph if I want to see nascar.

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Struggling Irwindale Speedway cancels season - ESPN Los Angeles (http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/story/_/id/7572437/struggling-irwindale-speedway-cancels-season)

[KRE8xBOOST]

Wtf! This sucks

[tricky_ab]

I heard rumblings about this, but it sucks that it's true...

[[email protected]]

Emails and postings on Facebook have been made to show support and try to keep it alive.
Myself an others had a idea and sent a email to Rob Dyrdek in regards to the track and how it woul be a good investment for him and his company as well as monster banging it for motorsports events skating venues etc along with the drag and even scca cone courses.

[racer98]

Just got word of this in the news and official word will be out Monday.
This doesn't look good for SoCal another track gone to the few we have left

Irwindale Speedway appears to be closing track - LA Daily News (http://www.dailynews.com/sports/ci_19947581)



Toyota mentioned just now they are pulling the plug and to top it off

Motor racing: Irwindale Speedway cancels 2012 season - latimes.com (http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-irwindale-closing-20120214,0,5376299.story)


Now I guess its chuckaluckaducka speedway in the boonies, willow or the falling apart button willow. :picardfp:


just waiting for someone in the 626 code area to quote me to say they have a place to do this cheaper ;).

[racer98]

Emails and postings on Facebook have been made to show support and try to keep it alive.
Myself an others had a idea and sent a email to Rob Dyrdek in regards to the track and how it woul be a good investment for him and his company as well as monster banging it for motorsports events skating venues etc along with the drag and even scca cone courses.




Issues are just way to much to be faced with, to keep this venue open.


CARB
Noise pollution
Properly tax
Declining attendance
Economy


Issue is there are a lot of mechanics that are needed to keep a track open and sadly the owners probably got something interesting instead of keeping the track open. Issue is Fontana will be the only and last place nearest to Los Angeles and that is even still a far drive for a lot of people.

[Bigalow311]

Speedhunters:
NEWS>> CONFIRMED: IRWINDALE CANCELS 2012 SEASON - Speedhunters (http://speedhunters.com/archive/2012/02/13/news-gt-gt-confirmed-irwindale-cancels-2012-season.aspx)

[PeaceOnesxWai]

Maybe adams will buy it haha


Price tag is around 10 Mil

[fatduece]

Seems like the only prospering thing in Cali, are the [email protected] parades.

[moco]

Damn this sucks :/

[Run NoeL, Run!]

Just in case none of you want to read the entire article.
This sucks. ._.'
"Attendance over the past two seasons has gradually dwindled since the heydays of the early 2000 s. The track does not release attendance numbers, but an average of about 2,700 people attended 28 races last year.

The track averaged more than 5,000 attendees in a 6,500-seat stadium for four consecutive seasons, starting in 2001."

[HAWAII]

A lot of GrassRoots promoters try to talk to Irwindale for the past couple of years to rent the facility for Drifting but their prices are ridiculous. If they have special prices for smaller groups to bring in income, it would have prevented this closing.

Now some rich fucker will demolish it and build houses.

[Jose1]

Now some rich Attorney will demolish it and build houses.


talk about profit and fixed, so now what will happen, so the attorney and his buddy's will make profit from bleeding people for some crappy homes financed by his buddies at the bank and to top it off will make more money from people who will get nailed for street racing or accidents caused by people who do not have a place close to them to race legally, call me stupid but do the math and add it up.

[ZenkiKid]

Irwindale Speedway group files for bankruptcy - ESPN Los Angeles (http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/story/_/id/7576141/irwindale-speedway-group-files-bankruptcy)

Damn.. they are up the asshole in debt.

[dawnattack]

developers are probably on this and they don't care about racers...it's all about cashflow..:rant:
street racing? not again!!!

[DJ-of-E]

developers are probably on this and they don't care about racers...it's all about cashflow..:rant:
street racing? not again!!!

The bigger issue is what will happen to all those shops in the El Monte area once this is closed. There's a lot of "car shops" because of Irwindale. Now that it is closed, those shops would most likely close down and move because (let's face it) El Monte is pretty expensive and ghetto to open house there. Probably moved more west.

[Bigalow311]

^^
I concur.

There will be blood.

[Tulok]

More and more street racing, here we come! like the old days again, hopefully nobody gets hurt!

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[roboticnissan]

I vote for ports of long beach replace the irwindale events.

[Bigalow311]

I vote for ports of long beach replace the irwindale events.

I know you were joking but, God, I hope that doesn't happen. I wanna get as far away as I can from them government yahoos.

[iveexcaped3]

arent they building a new track at orange show in san bernardino? i know they took out the old one but i thought i heard their building a new one

[roboticnissan]

I know you were joking but, God, I hope that doesn't happen. I wanna get as far away as I can from them government yahoos.




Why would i be joking??? The ports of long beach event was awesome in every aspect.

Its suitable to replace irwindale

[Bigalow311]

Why would i be joking??? The ports of long beach event was awesome in every aspect.

Its suitable to replace irwindale

Looks like I'll never attend... at least not with my current fun car.