The Irwindale Speedway & Event Center, which has been the home to NASCAR races, demolition derbies, festivals, and is the go-to place for Southern California's street-legal racing scene, will close ...

Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach. Julie previously reported for the Beach Reporter, ...

IRWINDALE, Calif. (KABC) -- It was a final, emotional lap for racers at the Irwindale Speedway and Dragstrip as it officially closed its tracks after 25 years of business. The speedway celebrated with ...

Burnouts and drag racing mark the tour's opening day festivities at Irwindale.

The LA-area track’s president says eighth-mile drag racing will return in May 2025 at an all-new dragstrip in Bakersfield, California. On Sunday, December 8, 2024, history repeated itself, as ...

IRWINDALE, Calif. (KABC) -- The Irwindale Speedway, which includes Los Angeles County's only 1/8-mile drag racing course, is being forced to shut down. It will be converted into an outlet mall. "This ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Stacey Kent saw Irwindale Speedway built literally from the ground up. She worked for the team that helped construct the short track circuit in the late ...

Every Thursday, Irwindale Speedway has an open drag racing night, where anyone can bring any car and race it on the drag strip. Robert Roth has an old, full sized van that he's decorated like an ...