ACTION AT IRWINDALE ... AUGUST 22, 23, 24, & 25

ACTION AT IRWINDALE … CAR FUN FOR EVERYONE
AUGUST 22, 23, 24, & 25:  THURSDAY - SUNDAY
Just Say" "Supersize My Irwindale Weekend Please …"


Irwindale, Calif. - - The wide, wonderful world of California Car Culture will be in full song Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at Irwindale Speedway and Dragstrip with three different motorsports events and a spectacular car show over the four-day span.  

Starting on Thursday Night, August 22, the drag strip will host its regular NHRA Street Legal "Test'N'Tune" night open to all comers.  These "run what you brung" nights of drag racing have been averaging over 200 racers with some 2,000+ approving fans in attendance.  A new 500-seat grandstand was installed just a couple of weeks ago but the places along the spectator fence still get filled up early with many fans arriving as soon as the tech gates open at 4PM to claim their favorite viewing areas.  

A real "happening", one never knows what machines they'll see until they get to Irwindale on a particular Thursday … Everything from wild to mild and all shades in between, the hottest bikes and the most super of street cars … They're all there and running hard on Thursday nights.  More information: (626) 358-11100

On Friday Night, August 23 the Irwindale 1/8-mile Dragstrip will get heated up for a second night in a row when the first edition of the 32-Car Manufacturer's Cup Challenge Race takes center stage.  Gates open at 4PM and the elimination rounds will start at 7PM.  It's Team Mopar against Team Ford, against Team General Motors, all against Team Import.  All the best of best will be running "Chicago Style" on Irwindale's super-fast launch pad.  There'll be plenty of great give-aways for the fans, as well as exhibition runs featuring some pretty (make that VERY) strong racing cars.  

A manufacturer's midway will purvey all manner of automotive goodies, and a special racing car show will highlight half a hundred of the coolest cars ever to rotate a set of rubber tires.  There'll be raffles for fan prizes and "Round Girls" (no comment, -ed.) who will manage the scoreboards for each round of the 32-car round robin eliminations.  Over $3,000 (and still counting at this printing) in cash and merchandise prizes has been posted by local buisnesses for this event. More information: (626) 334-1800

Hot August Nights anyone?

Saturday Night, August 24 will see fans flocking to the 6,500-seat speedway for a great night of NASCAR racing on the fast half-mile oval.  The track's top stock car division, the Jani-King Super Late Models, will be racing hard down to the short strokes in their 2002 championship points battle where every finishing position point becomes a precious proposition. So too will the Grand American Modifieds, Modified 4's, and the King Taco-sponsored Legends Cars.

 The 2002 season is drawing short, points, prestige, and bragging rights are all on the line … No one wants to finish eleventh when they're "this close" to the person in tenth place.  Gates open to the public at 4PM and the now-traditional (and very well received) King Taco On-Track Autograph Session invites fans of all ages right down on the track at 6PM with racing firing off at 7PM sharp.  More information (626) 358-1100

Wrapping up the weekend with a Sunday, August 25, afternoon/early evening "Import Supershow" from 2 - 8PM, DUB Magazines EMPIRE offering will present 500 of the West Coast's "Baddest" imports on display right on the Irwindale Speedway racetrack along with music from SoCal's hottest DJ's and a surprise live performance or two.  Cars, Motorcycles, Luxury, and SUV's will vie in forty categories for huge trophies and some $10,000 in cash awards.  A $1,000 bikini contest is also part of the attraction at this Sunday afternoon super show. More information: (562) 789-8816

A four-ring circus of car lover's delights, Irwindale Dragstrip and Speedway has something that's sure to ring each and every car-person's personal bell on this menu … from NASCAR to NHRA, to 500 of the nicest imported and domestic wheels on the planet ... And it's all at freeway-close Irwindale on this late August extended weekend.  Beeeee Yoouuuknooowwhereeee!

FOR MORE INFORMATION:  Doug Stokes (626) 358-1100 x 206