Former site of Orange County International Raceway (Irvine, California)

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Orange County International Raceway was a combined ¼ mile drag strip and 2-mile road course located in Irvine, CA, from August 5, 1967 to October 30, 1983.
The area is now an industrial park and highway interchange.
The well-known Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving was founded at the track in 1968.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBWZHeXpil8
Wednesday night "grudge nights" were my favorites.
$5.00 for a night of drag racing my "mom's" car....those were the days! ~phiz 8/03/07

(Ren adds: I found a web site that shows the dimensions of the raceway with a key describing what is there today. Here is the link: silverstone.fortunecity.com/bonneville/218/ociraerial/ . It shows the northwest border extending up to, but not including the 1-5/133 junction, and the southeast border at Barranca. I hope the historical layer gets here soon.)
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_County_International_Raceway
Nearby cities:
Coordinates:   33°39'59"N   117°44'56"W

Comments

  • You missed the whole pit area, staging lanes, timing tower, bleachers and most of the actual track. This was just the shutdown area. Nice try, tho.
  • Your borders on the map only encompass what was the top half of the track, shutdown area and the return road. You left out the "fat" part of the wedge where the pits, staging lanes, grandstands, tower and concessions, etc. were. Nice try, though.
  • The outline here is WRONG. It only shows HALF of the facility.
  • Well, fix it, Dave
  • With the current WM guideline of not tagging or deleting non-existant places you are lucky this tag even exists, Dave, so go blow it out your ear.
  • Photo #5 is an aerial view of OCIR from 1980. There is no other, "missing" half of the facility: what you see is what you get. STFU, Dave.
  • The outline IS right.
  • The outline is WRONG. It only encloses the bing end of the track, the shutdown area and the head of the return road. Perhaps if you had actually BEEN to the place you could get it right.
  • Yes. Photo 5 DOES show the outline of the facility in 1980. Then why didn't you or whoever draw the polygon correctly? People who don't understand photographs should not try to interpret them. So, to everyone who wants my to "STFU" or "Blow it out my ass," You can KISS that ass, buckaroo, and keep kissing it until you know WTF you are talking about.
  • LOL. Sorry Dave, the site was never 2 miles long. (And I was there weekly.)
  • "People who don't understand photographs should not try to interpret them." I guess that explains why the (incorrect, now deleted) tag you added included all of the agriculture to the south, as shown in the aerial view? lol! PLS TO ZBM.
  • There is still part of the paved back entrance, (Walnut Trail) that ran under the freeway still there. How I miss Wed. night racing.
  • Remember the (fox hunts) OÇIR was awesome
  • Was this the same place http://tubulocity.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Schwinn-krate-ad-1968.jpg
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