Irwindale drags

IRWINDALE EVENT CENTER: NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE USE
APRIL 13, 2012 1:30PM

GREEN LIGHT! DRAG STRIP AT IRWINDALE
... BACK IN BUSINESS: THURSDAY APRIL 19

Irwindale, Calif. - - NHRA street-legal drag racing has just been given the green light and is back on schedule in Irwindale after (way too many) weeks away, the hot eighth-mile drag strip at Irwindale is all set to starting to lighting up the night again on Thursday, April 26.

We're very pleased to be able to bring street-legal drag racing back to the Irwindale facility, said Jim Cohan, CEO of Race Training, USA Inc. the operators of LA Racing Experience, the event center?s stock car driving school. We understand how much this place to race means to so many people.

Cohan's group (which has been in operation at the Irwindale facility for some seven years now) will stage regular Thursday night street-legal events, a number Sunday Summit Series races, and, perhaps even a few special Saturday nights under the lights on the Irwindale eighth-mile.

The drag strip at Irwindale opened in 2001 has seen thousands of street-legal runs by thousand of drivers: young, old, and in between.

In fact, all one needs to become a bona fide drag racer is a valid driver?s license, your favorite, fastest car, pickup, motorcycle, or SUV it needs to have a working muffler, and needs to be capable of passing the NHRA safety test. Take that machine up to the line, rev it up, watch the famous ?Christmas Tree? light up, and count down: yellow, yellow, yellow, GREEN! and put the pedal to the metal.

From track opening time at 4pm, with first runs at 5pm, and all the way until 10pm, racers can line up in the staging lines and take their shots at the clocks. Every driver gets a time slip for every pass? down the 660-foot strip that they make which shows the numbers for their whole run, including the all-important reaction time, which shows precisely how quickly a driver left the starting line when the lights turned green.

We want everyone to know how much Jim Mnoian and Jay Garrett, the owners of the Irwindale property, have been very involved with the process of getting the drag strip back on line, said Cohan. These two gentlemen are both team players, they understand what the drag strip means to the community, and we're very proud to be working with them.