Irwindale 2016 NASCAR/NHRA Shedules Announced

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IRWINDALE EVENT CENTER
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Irwindale Event Center Releases
2016 Speedway & Dragstrip Calendar
Irwindale, Calif. - - (Saturday, January 23, 2016 8:00 p.m.)  Irwindale Event Center
tonight announced its 2016 Speedway and Dragstrip schedules.  "We're very excited
about being back for 2016," IEC President/CEO Jim Cohan said. "Our fans have been
great and very patient, and we hope that they'll have a wonderful time with all 
of the exciting motor-entertainment that we've got lined up for them this season.
 And the same goes for all of the competitors and crews that put on the show. They've
been very understanding and loyal, and we couldn't have asked for more."
The 2016 Speedway competition schedule started tonight with the track's own Irwindale
Race Trucks division during "Night of Destruction presented by Pick Your Part" with
eleven more action-packed nights of NASCAR competition featuring everything from
 Late Models to Mini-Stocks with a "Special Event" K&N Pro Series West race on March
19 to the eighteenth Late Model race on July 16. NASCAR Late Models, Irwindale Race
Trucks, Super Stocks and Mini-Stocks will all be featured divisions along with Legend
Cars, Bandoleros, Southwest Tour Trucks and Racecar Factory Spec Late Models (formerly
"S2 Tour"). A Spears SRL Southwest Tour event will share the card with the Lucas
 Oil Modifieds on April 30.
And ... just to keep fans hanging on the edge of their seats, there are three more
incredible nights of fearsome fun that everyone knows as "Night of Destruction presented
by Pick Your Part" on March 12, May 7 and July 2.  These wild slam-bang events are
fan favorites and combine skill, daring and sheet metal in various types of mechanized
contests that has to be seen to be believed. From Enduro Racing to Skid Plate Racing
to Pick Your Part Compact Car Demolition Derbies to Trailer Racing and on to Auto
Soccer with a 400-pound steel ball ... these nights are pure adrenaline plain and
simple.
Also, monthly Thursday Night Drift presented by Formula Drift returns on February
11. This event features the art of drifting in the facility that the competition
 themselves named "The House of Drift".
On Irwindale's quick eighth-mile dragstrip twenty-seven more Thursday nights of 
NHRA Street Legal Drag Racing will see drivers having a ball running their own cars
for times and bragging rights. "Thursday Night Thunder" is just that and races run
there every Thursday through the end of July. To fans, racers (or both), drag racing
is exciting stuff especially with only 660 feet to get it done.
And for the serious Drag Racers, there's the six-race NHRA Summit Series.  Its four
highly competitive divisions of racing for an annual points championship and a chance
to move on to the next level for high scorers.  "Summit Sundays" kick off on February
28 and run through July 24.
... Irwindale Event Center will go into 2016 with the same family-friendly prices
for admissions and parking that it opened with in 1999.  The attached schedule is
correct and complete as of the date of this release, however changes and additions
are always possible over the course of a season, so fans are invited to check in
 at: www.IrwindaleEventCenter.com [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001a-6yT4OHBw4WB5k7gKbG2dgtKpr77NX7gZXnGpFJ8tp82eQNxM4Oxljb6XJDmJ7Y3zMCNonaBrUySCx8YwvaHNaslSSnDta5-kCf2ffHlwOfKa9XOxCg5NGDYjk4ST9QG9Yl3l6jbbX0fEDyWgChns0y3SkaWMUnKnfWN7YRdZMdviVCTbMGNA==&c=iJ442UmG3QDdnar7VUYMPN-oSDb7kQyefFI8vs7gTsTUvlKf_qPyWw==&ch=_0hEZDeCLho8qnXg0SHKgBRf7vN_dVaf2rMdLMvvlGkLc2Qs9tmtyw==]
on a regular basis for schedule additions, updates and changes. -IEC
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2016
January 23: Night of Destruction presented by Pick Your Part - Seidner's Collision
Centers Enduro, Seidner's Collision Centers Skid Plate Racing, Pick Your Part Compact
Car Demolition Derby, Trailer Racing, Irwindale Race Trucks
February 11: Thursday Night Drift presented by Formula Drift
March 12: Night of Destruction presented by Pick Your Part - Destruction Events 
TBA, Southwest Tour Trucks
March 19: (Special Event) Bill McAnally Racing presents K&N Pro Series West Toyota/NAPA
Auto Parts 150, Whelen Late Models, Racecar Factory Spec Late Models
April 2: NASCAR - Late Model Twins, Irwindale Race Trucks, Mini Stocks, Legend Cars
April 16: NASCAR - Late Model Twins, Super Stocks, Mini Stocks, Racecar Factory 
Spec Late Models
April 30: Lucas Oil Modifieds, Spears SRL Southwest Tour, Legend Cars, Bandoleros
May 7: Night of Destruction presented by Pick Your Part - Destruction Events TBA,
Late Models
May 14: NASCAR - Late Model Twins, Irwindale Race Trucks, Legend Cars, Racecar Factory
Spec Late Models
May 28: NASCAR - Late Model Twins, Super Stocks, Mini Stocks, Southwest Tour Trucks
June 11: NASCAR - Late Model Twins, Irwindale Race Trucks, Mini Stocks, Legend Cars,
Bandoleros
June 25: NASCAR - Late Model Twins, Super Stocks, Southwest Tour Trucks, Racecar
 Factory Spec Late Models
July 2: Night of Destruction presented by Pick Your Part - Destruction Events TBA,
Late Models
July 16: NASCAR - Late Model Twins, Irwindale Race Trucks, Legend Cars, Bandoleros,
Racecar Factory Spec Late Models
2016

* January 28: NHRA Thursday Night Thunder
* February 4: NHRA Thursday Night Thunder
* February 11: NHRA Thursday Night Thunder
* February 18: NHRA Thursday Night Thunder
* February 25: NHRA Thursday Night Thunder
* February 28:  NHRA Summit Series Race #1
* March 3: NHRA Thursday Night Thunder
* March 6:  NHRA Summit Series Race #2
* March 10: NHRA Thursday Night Thunder
* March 17: NHRA Thursday Night Thunder
* March 24: NHRA Thursday Night Thunder
* March 31: NHRA Thursday Night Thunder
* April 7: NHRA Thursday Night Thunder
* April 10: NHRA Summit Series Race #3
* April 14: NHRA Thursday Night Thunder
* April 17: NHRA Summit Series Race #4
* April 21: NHRA Thursday Night Thunder
* April 28: NHRA Thursday Night Thunder
* May 5: NHRA Thursday Night Thunder
* May 12: NHRA Thursday Night Thunder
* May 15: NHRA Summit Series Race #5
* May 19: NHRA Thursday Night Thunder
* May 26: NHRA Thursday Night Thunder
* June 2: NHRA Thursday Night Thunder
* June 9: NHRA Thursday Night Thunder
* June 16: NHRA Thursday Night Thunder
* June 23: NHRA Thursday Night Thunder
* June 30: NHRA Thursday Night Thunder
* July 7: NHRA Thursday Night Thunder
* July 14: NHRA Thursday Night Thunder
* July 21: NHRA Thursday Night Thunder
* July 24: NHRA Summit Series Race #6
* July 28: NHRA Thursday Night Thunder
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