Racetrack Offers Creative Solution To Illegal Sideshows, Street Races

By CBSLA Staff, CBS Los Angeles:

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — As Los Angeles lawmakers work on a measure to increase penalties for promoting or encouraging street racing and sideshows, Irwindale Speedway has offered a creative solution.

“I thought to myself we just gotta give these kids and these people a place to go do that — to be able to express their passion for automobiles,” said Irwindale Speedway President Tom Huddleston. “And be able to take them and put them to their limits and experience what a car can do in a safe environment.”

As the only remaining short racetrack in Los Angeles, for $20 Irwindale Speedway opens up a “burnout box” every Thursday night. According to Huddleston, the racetrack gets 75-100 cars a night with about 500 people in the crowd watching drivers burnouts safely.

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