Southern California - no place to drag race in the birthplace of drag racing

The first commercial drag race took place on July 2, 1950, on an out-of-commission Army air base in Santa Ana, California. Soon, that facility was known as the "Santa Ana Drags".
When it closed nine years later, drag racing had become a nationwide sport with established rules and classes, national championships, and a major sanctioning body. Now, drag racing has evolved into a huge worldwide motorsport—and it also still exists at a smaller grassroots level not much different from what those guys in Santa Ana were doing 70 years ago.

With the announced closing of Irwindale Speedway at the end of 2024, the only two drag racing facilities left in SoCal for weekly events will be either...
* Barona (1/8-mile) - located on the Barona Indian Reservation east of San Diego, 120+ miles from my home in north Orange County
* Famoso Dragstrip (1/4-mile) - north of Bakersfield, 180 miles from my home

I know land values in SoCal are expensive and people living too close to the track will complain about the noise, but you would think that a track in a heavy-industrialized area (thinking Los Angeles/Long Beach harbor area) would be worth trying to keep illegal speed contests off of the streets.