{"id":429,"date":"2009-02-05T07:46:28","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T03:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=429"},"modified":"2009-02-24T07:50:36","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T03:50:36","slug":"irwindale-racing-cards-provide-variety-it-is-considered-one-of-the-top-short-tracks-in-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=429","title":{"rendered":"Irwindale racing cards provide variety &#8211; It is considered one of the top short tracks in the nation."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"storybody\">Toyota Speedway at Irwindale and other Southern California short tracks that host racing mostly on Saturday nights are gearing up for the 2009 racing season.<\/div>\n<div class=\"storybody\">The Irwindale facility, considered one of the best short tracks in the nation, is a half-mile paved oval that features late-model stock cars.<\/div>\n<div class=\"storybody\">Trucks and smaller cars called bandoleros and legends also compete at Toyota Speedway, which also hosts demolition derbies and figure-eight races.<\/div>\n<p>The track&#8217;s notable events during the year include its NASCAR season opener March 21, the NASCAR Camping World Series 200 on July 4, the NASCAR Late Model final on Oct. 24 and the venerable Turkey Night race with sprint and midget cars Thanksgiving night.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 17, the speedway also is scheduled to host a professional &#8220;drifting&#8221; event as part of the Formula Drift series&#8217; schedule&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/la-sp-irwindale5-2009feb05,0,4857652.story\" target=\"_blank\">More info<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota Speedway at Irwindale and other Southern California short tracks that host racing mostly on Saturday nights are gearing up for the 2009 racing season. The Irwindale facility, considered one of the best short tracks in the nation, is a half-mile paved oval that features late-model stock cars. Trucks and smaller cars called bandoleros and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19,20,22,23,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-drag-racing","category-drifting","category-nascar","category-new-automobile-products-tests","category-sprints-midgets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}