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Irwindale Speedway Weekly Newsletter and Coupon
"THE BEST SHORT TRACK RACING I'VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE!" --Darrell Waltrip
In This Issue
* OPENING NIGHT IS COMING THIS SATURDAY...MARCH 18!
* IRWINDALE SPEEDWAY TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE AND PRINTABLE AT HOME
* HOT VW’s DRAG DAY SUNDAY MARCH 19 – IRWINDALE SPEEDWAY
* RACING SCENE Column - By Tim Kennedy
Dear Irwindale Speedway Fan
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OPENING NIGHT IS COMING THIS SATURDAY...MARCH 18!
This Week Irwindale Will
Honor Shav Glick and Fans Will Enjoy a Combo of
NASCAR Racing and Figure 8 Action with Jesse James!
Irwindale Speedway kicks off its motor racing season
this Saturday, March 18. Inclement weather forced
postponement of the season opener originally
scheduled for March 11.
“Saturday cannot come soon enough to drop the
green flag on our eighth year of
racing at Irwindale Speedway,” said Bob DeFazio,
COO and General Manager of Irwindale
Speedway. “We are looking forward to a great
season opener which will be a
sample of the exciting racing fans can expect to
watch at our facility every
Saturday evening throughout the season.”
Opening night activities
include Advantage Ford
Presents Shav Glick Night, honoring
the longtime racing writer with the Los Angeles
Times. Racing activities on the
Ѕ-mile oval include the Lucas Oil Super Late
Models
(rescheduled from the 11th),
Grand American Modifieds, Auto Club Late Models and
the Justice Brothers Pure
Stocks. Action will then shift to the “Figure-8 course
with the Pick Your Part
Figure 8’s featuring Jesse James of the Discovery
Channel’s Monster Garage
television series.
Gates open at 4 p.m., fan appreciation autograph
session with take place at
5:30 p.m., and racing beginning at 7 p.m.
Tickets for all Irwindale Speedway events are
available for purchase at the
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Club of Southern California members who show
their membership card will receive discounts on
parking and on special items
offered at the concession and souvenir stands.
Irwindale Speedway is located at 500 Speedway Blvd
near the I-605 freeway and
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“The simplicity of purchasing tickets online to each of
our weekly motor racing events will be a tremendous
convenience to our fans,” said Bob DeFazio, COO and
General Manager of Irwindale Speedway. “Those fans
that purchase and print their tickets in advance will
be able to eliminate the worry and hassle of
purchasing tickets upon arrival at the facility,
allowing them to enjoy their Irwindale Speedway
experience that much more.”
Tickets for all Irwindale Speedway events including
the season opener Shav Glick Night Presented by
Advantage Ford on Saturday March 11 can also be
purchased at the Speedway ticket office or by calling
(626) 358-1100.
The action-packed evening includes the Lucas Oil
Super Late Models, Vista Paint Super Stocks, Auto
Club Late Models, Mini Stocks and the King Taco
Super Trucks. Gates open at 4 p.m. with a driver
autograph session at 5:30 p.m. The green flag waves
on the evening’s first race at 7 p.m.
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HOT VW’s DRAG DAY SUNDAY MARCH 19 – IRWINDALE SPEEDWAY
CB Performance presents Hot VW’s Drag Day, Sunday
March 19th at the Irwindale Speedway. Gates open
at 7am for a full day of VW activities, including eight
classes of drag racing, a swap area (spots are free
with spectator admission), vehicle displays and a
Sponsor/manufacturers midway.
Spectators are $15, kids 11 and under are free, race
entry is $35 (car and driver). Mufflers are required.
Drag racing classes include the Quick 16, a qualified
bracket sponsored by A1 Muffler, with an additional
$50 entry and a $1200 purse; the Jackpot Bracket
sponsored by BLIMP, with an additional entry of $25,
the purse determined by the amount of entries.
There is also three air-cooled trophy brackets, one
water-pumper trophy bracket, and a special bracket
for Vee-Dub Busses.
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RACING SCENE Column - By Tim Kennedy
Los Angeles, CA. - Another retirement party for Shav
Glick, the esteemed
85-year old Los Angeles Time motor sports writer,
took place at California
Speedway in Fontana. The date was Thursday
evening February 23, the eve of
NASCAR's three-day racing weekend at the two-mile
track. The proximity to the
Fontana races enabled many of his friends and
journalism colleagues to attend and
wish Shav well in retirement. His last day at the
Times was January 15. About
175-200 people attended the tribute, held in the
track's "party tent" in the
infield between the starting line and turn four.
American Auto Racing Writers and
Broadcasters Association (AARWBA) staff arranged
the affair and handled
sign-ins.
Bob Steinbrinck, long-time radio voice at KMPC 710
AM in Los Angeles and
Riverside International Raceway turn six announcer,
served ably as master of
ceremonies. Fellow long-time motor racing scribes Bill
Center (San Diego
Union-Tribune) and Jim Short (Riverside Press-
Enterprise) came to the stage and
spoke fondly of working alongside Shav in track press
rooms and just knowing the
unassuming Shav as a friend. Short also will be
retiring later this year.
Shav's boss, LA Times sports editor Bill Dwyre also
spoke warmly about Shav, who
was seated on the stage for the night of tributes.
The Times assistant sports
editor attended as well. Gillian Zucker, president of
California Speedway and
hostess of the buffet dinner/tribute to Shav, spoke
about Shav. She gave him a
California Speedway gold life-time media pass and
reserved parking space number
one. A video presentation featuring glowing
comments about Shav from NASCAR
executives Bill France, Jr and Jim Hunter followed.
Seated among the audience
were NASCAR president Mike Helton and Les Richter,
the ex-L.A Rams linebacker,
long-time Riverside track president and NASCAR vice-
president.
Fellow writers who attended Shav's tribute dinner
included Mike Harris
(Associated Press), David Poole (Charlotte Observer),
Lewis Franck (Reuters wire
service), Damian Dottore (Orange County Register),
Louie Brewster (Inland
Valley Daily Bulletin) and Martin Henderson (LA
Times). NASCAR driver Brendan
Gaughan and long-time racing PR maven and personal
friend Doug Stokes and his
wife Dede also attended. Many persons in motor
racing public relations attended,
including Tom Blattler (Bobby Rahal Racing) and
Dennis Kaiser (The PR Garage).
Shav served as Grand Marshall for the February 26
NASCAR Nextel Cup Auto Club
500. The Fox TV broadcast of the race showed Shav
giving the "Gentleman Start
Your Engines" command and he performed his duty on
cue perfectly. Shav's
successor at the LA Times motor sports desk is Jim
Peltz, who covered the NASCAR
races at Daytona Beach and Fontana.
SHAV BIO: He began his sports writing career 71
years ago in Pasadena and
worked from ages 14 to 85. He covered 35
Indianapolis 500s, 32 Daytona 500s,
numerous Formula One, sports car, motorcycle,
midget and sprint car races and
even the new motor sports sensation from Japan-
drifting. Shav also covered two
Olympic Games, a dozen Masters golf tournaments,
plus U.S Opens and St.
Andrews (Scotland) tourneys, Wimbledon tennis,
cricket in Australia, baseball World
Series, Santa Anita horse races and numerous Rose
Bowl football games in his
hometown of Pasadena. During World War II Shav
served in the public relations
corps of General Douglas MacArthur in the South
Pacific.
The late L.A Times publisher Otis Chandler, who died
at age 78 this year
on February 27, hired Shav away from the Pasadena
Star-News in 1954 to write
for the Los Angeles Mirror. It merged with the L.A
Times in 1963 and Shav's
by-line has appeared in the Times since then. Times
sports editor Bill Shirley
named Shav to succeed Bob Thomas as the motor
sports writer when Bob left the
Times in 1969. Shav has handled the racing beat ably
for 37 years. He has won
numerous awards for his accurate and entertaining
reporting of the motor sports
scene. He even has the media center at NHRA's
Pomona Raceway named for him. A
Shav Glick Award is named in his honor. It goes
annually to a distinguished
person in motor racing. Recently Shav was inducted
into the Motorsports Hall of
Fame of America in Novi, Michigan in the at-large
category. He joins some of
the legendary names of American racing in that
respected hall.
P.S.-The LA Times announced on March 3 that
Sports Editor Bill Dwyre, 61,
was promoted to the new position of executive
sports editor to aid in the
transition of his successor, Randy Harvey, 54. Randy
is a long-time Times
sportswriter/columnist who has been sports editor of
the Baltimore Sun for the last
two years. Dwyre has been the Times sports editor
for 25 years and he wanted to
give up his managerial duties for writing. Times
readers may look forward to
Dwyre by-lines and opinion pieces in the Times in
coming years. The Notre Dame
alumnus is a tennis aficionado who made sure motor
sports had solid coverage
in the Times. Hopefully Harvey and Peltz will continue
the tradition of motor
sports coverage that Dwyre and Glick gave Times
readers for decades.
Irwindale Speedway opening night, Saturday March
11, was to be Shav Glick
Night at the track. However, rain intervened and
postponed the 2006 track
opener to March 18 when Shav will be honored by
track management and IS fans. The
five division card rained out March 11 was the ninth
rain-out in IS track
history since it opened on March 27, 1999. The last
rain-out occurred on March
19, 2005. Two rain-outs happened in 2004 on April 3
and April 17.
Irwindale Speedway held two open practice days on
Saturdays February 18
and 25 from 11 a.m to dusk. Cost was $100 per car
with free pit passes for
crews and spectators. About 25-30 cars took part on
the 18th and more than 40
racing cars/trucks took advantage on the 25th to
test and set-up their vehicles
for competition this season. On the first test day
NHRA drag racer Frank
Pedregon had his new super late model on the track
for the first time. The all black
car (with no number on it yet) spun into the wall in a
turn during one session
and needed extensive repairs to the left rear and left
front. The driver was
stock car rookie/360 cu. in. sprint car veteran
Jessica Helberg, 18, from
Northern California. She was uninjured in the mishap
on a chilly day. She has
raced her family No. 4 Beast/Chevy with CASA at
tracks such as Altamont Raceway.
She made her debut at Irwindale last Thanksgiving
when she made the USAC
Western Sprint Car Series feature on Turkey Night
and raced to the checkered flag in
her IS debut.
Subjects of feature stories in the Orange County
Register by motor sports
writer Damian Dottore were Mauricia Grant (on March
1) and Scott Speed (on
March 8). Mauricia is the 20-something African-
American NASCAR tech inspector
who was referred to Irwindale Speedway by the
Urban League and worked in tech
inspection at IS through 2004. She joined the
NASCAR Busch Series tech staff in
2005. Scott, 23, is a Formula One 2006 rookie from
Manteca, CA. He is the
first graduate of the Red Bull energy drink F.1
American driver development
program in 2002. He has been racing in a European
lower formula three series since
2003, interrupted by a serious illness-ulcerative
colitis. Treatment in Austria
prevented the removal of his colon, which could have
ended his racing career.
His illness is now in remission. Scott qualified 16th
fastest in a 22-car F.1
field for the F.1 season opener in Bahrain on March
12. He raced without
error and finished 13th, with 18 drivers still racing at
the finish. Scott
completed 56 of the 57 laps run on the 12-turn, 3.37-
mile course in his F.1 debut
with the Scuderia Toro Rosso (Red Bull) ex-Minardi
team. He is the first driver
from the USA to race in F.1 since Michael Andretti
ran F.1 one season in 1993.
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