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Nu-Way Retakes Irwindale Speedway: Dragstrip First Order Of Business
by Andrew Wolf on March 21, 2012
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Southern California’s Irwindale Speedway, shuttered in January amid bankruptcy filings by the longtime lease holders, got one step closer to a determination on its future on Tuesday per a report by the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, as land and track owner Nu-Way Industries regained control of the facility in a ruling by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court.
According to the report, Jason Rund, the Chapter 7 trustee for Irwindale Speedway LLC, ended the 33-year lease held on the facility last week, turning control back over to Nu-Way. With this hurdle in the rear view mirror, Nu-Way is now free to determine what it will do with the property, which features state-of-the-art half and third-mile paved ovals and an eighth-mile drag strip.
“We’re just trying to feel our way through,” Nu-Way’s Jay Garrett said. “We weren’t able to do too much because the property was tied up with the bankruptcy. We can go ahead now.”
Nu-Way’s Garrett and Jim Mnoian, who have managed the family-owned property for more than 40 years, are still in the determination phase of what they plan to do with the property. “We would considered (selling) it, but we’re not actively pursing it right now,” Garrett said. “We have a lot of different avenues that we’re pursing. We’re trying to get a few other activities in there that will provide entertainment as well as racing. The phone has been ringing off the hook.”
Garrett indicated that he and Mnoian have fielded hundreds of phone calls from interested buyers of the property and racing facilities. “(Racing) will take a little longer to get re-geared back up,” Garrett said. “But there are a couple of leading candidates. We’ll have to see what it has to take to put it together.”
In a great bit of news for the drag racing community, Garrett and Mnoian indicated that their first order of business is re-opening the drag strip, citing the recent closure of the Auto Club Dragway in Fontana and the need for a straight-line venue in the region. “It’s locked, loaded and ready,” Cohen said of the drag strip. “We know it’s very popular.”

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Saw that same news, Ron. Great news for SoCal drag racing. Just wish it was 1/4-mile instead of 1/8th.
Maybe something brewing for 1/4-mile drag racing in the not-too-distant future in another part of SoCal.
 
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.
 
That is good news.Would be beautiful if 1320 came back to SoCal.
 
Thats great news. I like the eighth mile racing. Irwindale gets pretty busy on thursday night test and tune. The eighth mile vs quarter mile makes the runs go that much faster. You could usually knock out two or three runs in the first hour but later in the evening it's usually only about one run an hour.

Great entertainment value at $10 for spectators and $20 for racing. Might have to go run the car this Thursday to celebrate.
 

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While this is great news for the drag racers, the circle track remains closed. Leaving 100's of racers no place to race.

To bad the group that runs the driving school has no interest or backing to reopen the circle track that at one time was filled 1000's of race fans.
 
Really Irwindale is a nice track for stock cars. I hope this track hold many events in 2012.
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Yep it re-opened. a friend took his Coronet there and ran some 6.3x passes. Said it was CROWDED!
 
johnn34 said:
Really Irwindale is a nice track for stock cars. I hope this track hold many events in 2012.
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The Racecar Driving Experience (driving school) that operated the Thursday night drags has no intention of re-opening the famed Irwindale Speedway 1/2 mile banked track to weekly racing. Those racers will have to sit idle. The race supported businesses, and concession people will have to collect unemployment.

See, the circle track racing cuts into prime Saturday track time for the driving school business. Racing on the 1/2 mile is a conflict of interest to Racecar Driving Experiance (driving school).
 
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