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In 1975, Skip Barber started the Skip Barber School of High Performance Driving at Riverside International Raceway. [1] In 1976, it was renamed the Skip Barber Racing School. Despite selling the school in 1999, Barber remains active in motorsports today as the owner of Lime Rock Park. [2] On May 22, 2017, the school filed for Chapter 11 ...
It featured a 15-turn, 1.6-mile road course, an eight-acre asphalt pad for advanced training with more than 100 race-prepared vehicles. [2] Bob Bondurant's copyrighted Bondurant Method taught competition driving, police pursuit driving, evasive driving for chauffeurs and bodyguards, stunt driving, and other courses. [3] [4]
The fastest official all-time track record set during a race weekend on the original Long Grand Prix Road Course is 1:20.683, set by Allan McNish in an Audi R8 during qualifying for the 2000 Grand Prix of Sonoma. [19] As of August 2024, the fastest official race lap records at Sonoma Raceway for different classes are listed as:
Ventura Raceway is a 1/5 mile, high-banked clay oval racetrack located at the Ventura County Fairgrounds in Ventura, California, United States.On a weekly basis the track is home to many types of dirt track racecars including wingless sprint cars, midgets, dwarf cars, stock cars, modifieds, sport compacts, and karts.
2008 saw Top fuel & funny car races be reduced to the present 1000 feet. The season closer, the NHRA Finals, was brought to the facility in 1984 from the now defunct Orange County International Raceway. When the event was first brought to Pomona, the event was sponsored by Winston (after NHRA's main title sponsor at the time, RJ Reynolds ...
High Performance Driver Education (HPDE) refers to driving schools held on dedicated race tracks designed to teach drivers proper high-speed driving techniques. HPDE events are held by various automobile enthusiasts' clubs at some of the most renowned road-course tracks around the world. Participants include both students and instructors.
Pages in category "Racing drivers from Los Angeles County, California" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Last Drag Race, Shav Glick, Los Angeles Times, October 29, 1983. Orange County Drag Strip Opens Tonight , Los Angeles Times, August 5, 1967. 33°39′43″N 117°44′51″W / 33.66200°N 117.74750°W / 33.66200; -117.74750 ( site of Orange County International