Im in the south LA area for a couple months in a work project and would like to go to any racing events, open track days, drag racing, etc but don't know when or where!!

I rented a V6 Camaro and would like to take it to a track too...

any advise?

 

I think they are still doing 1/8 mile drag racing at the Irwindale speedway, that is the closest racing to Los Angeles. They had a recent change of ownership or management, so it may be tough to find current information.
http://www.irwindalespeedway.com/
http://www.dailynews.com/sports/ci_2...-open-april-26
http://www.yelp.com/biz/toyota-speedway-irwindale


The Auto Club Speedway (In Fontana) is the closest road-race track. NASA and SpeedVentures are the ones who usually organize track days there.
http://speedventures.com/events/Default.aspx
http://socal.drivenasa.com/2011/12/2...-schedule.html



The website for the SCCA's Los Angeles autocross chapter is www.solo2.com , they tend to have one event every month. There's an autocross today in Irvine, at the Orange County Great Park , which used to be part of the El Toro Marine Corps Airbase so you might find the location using either name. It's probably too late to register to race today, but it's free to spectate at autocrosses so it might be entertaining if you've got time to kill today.


Willow Springs raceway is about 100 miles north of LA, I'm not too in touch with their trackday schedule, but I'm pretty sure JustDrift.com holds entry-level drift practices and events up there.
www.JustDrift.com
http://www.willowspringsraceway.com/




Some of the local rotorheads used to organize meets and cruises around Malibu (about 20 miles away) or the San Bernardino mountains (about 60-80 miles away), but I haven't been to one of those for a few years so I'm not sure what's going on lately. Shoot me a PM if you find something that looks interesting, I might try to make it out there.

 

sadly irwindale is closed down until further notice. hopefully it will reopen soon but bc toyota pulled funding it might be quite some time

 

No meets no cruises most RX-7 have blown motors or about to blow.

 

irwindale is open they got permission from the bk court to only open the drag track. they've been going strong for about a month now. every thursday till 10 i beleive it gets packed every time. just this past weekend they had drags on thur sat and sun for fathersday. had a jet engine car running on sunday.

 

What are you thinking wanting to race in a V6 Camaro?

May as well be in a Civic.

 

might as well last week some guy raced a bone stock focus and a golf cart also ran

 

lol

 

It isn't a racing event nor anything but it is entertaining:
What about cars and coffee on saturday mornings? It is at the mazda headquarters in Irvine.

 

And people don't race Civics?

It so happens that it's the only nice "sports" car available at National under my Company's agreement so I rented it and would like to see how bad it really is at drag or track

I got an upgrade to Executive Elite, I'll check if i can get the Convertible Mustang to drive the Pacific Hwy to SF one of these weekends.

Oh, I'll check into this!

Irvine is kinda far from South LA isn't it? I'd like to go I guess I can plan to visit if I ever go to SF.

Anything interesting in San Diego other than the Zoo?

 

SF as in San Francisco? No dude Irvine is in in the middle of orange county (it's a rather small couty BTW) which is south of LA county. Sandwiched between San Diego and LA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_County,_California

Anything to do in SD? As far as races you can check here:
http://racelegal.com/race-schedule/

Or you can always go into Tijuana and catch a donkey show... ha ha

 

doh!
for some reason I thought Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca was near MNAO in Irvine and in my mind I placed Irvine up there when I looked up the track...

Thanks for the info! Now I looked in G maps and realized that Irvine is actually not that far from me!

 

Laguna Seca =/= Laguna Beach... by quite a distance.

 

Irvine is pretty close to LA, and the Cars and Coffee shows are definitely worth checking out. You've got to get there early, if you show up at 9am many of the cars will be leaving or already gone.

 

HAHAAH... sick...

I haven't been to cars and coffee yet, sounds like it could be a good deal.