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The season will begin on April 4 at Long Beach and will conclude on October 18 at a yet to be announced location after eight events. This is the first Formula Drift season in its 22-year history to not feature a final event at Irwindale Speedway after the track's announced permanent closure on October 29, 2024. [1] [2]
The season began on April 13 at Long Beach and concluded on October 19 at Irwindale Speedway after eight events. This is the last Formula Drift season to feature the final event at Irwindale Speedway, after the track's announced permanent closure on October 29, 2024. [1] The season finale at Irwindale had been held since Formula D's inception ...
The event served as a CART/Champ Car race from 1984 to 2008, then became an IndyCar Series race event in 2009. The 2017 race was the 43rd running, and the 34th consecutive as an IndyCar race, one of the longest continuously running events in the history of American championship car racing. On three occasions (1984, 1985 and 1987) the race ...
This list of current motorsport championships is a list of all Active National and International motorsport championships decided by the points or positions earned by a driver from multiple races across Multiple Disciplines including Single-seat Open Wheel, Karting, sportscar and endurance Racing, StockCar, Modified StockCar, Modified Dirt Stock, Tour Car, One Manufacture Series, Rally, Rally ...
The Irwindale Speedway & Event Center (a.k.a. Irwindale Speedway, Irwindale Dragstrip, or "The House of Drift") was a motorsports facility located in Irwindale, California, United States. It opened on March 27, 1999, under the official name Irwindale Speedway.
Formula DRIFT (also known as Formula D or FD) is an American drifting series, and was co-founded by Jim Liaw and Ryan Sage in 2003 as a sister company to Slipstream Global Marketing, the same partnership that introduced D1 Grand Prix to the United States.
This sense of drift is not to be confused with the four wheel drift, a classic cornering technique established in Grand Prix and sports car racing. [citation needed] As a motoring discipline, drifting competitions were first popularized in Japan in the 1970s and further popularized by the 1995 manga series Initial D. Drifting competitions are ...
Option hosted an early exhibition drift event in 1996. During the early 1980s, the factory-backed Renault Formula One team often used Willow Springs to test their cars before the early season United States Grand Prix West held at Long Beach in Los Angeles. ChampCar Endurance Series hosts a double-8+7-hour endurance race on Big Willow. [22]