Riverside International Raceway (Sometimes known as
RIR or
Riverside Raceway) was a
race trackA race track is a purpose-built facility for racing of animals , automobiles, motorcycles or athletes. A race track may also feature grandstands or concourses. Some motorsport tracks are called speedways.A racetrack is a permanent facility or building...
or
road courseRoad racing is a form of motor racing held on paved, purpose-built race tracks , though racing done on airport runways and temporarily closed-off public roads is often included in the definition....
in
Riverside, CaliforniaRiverside is the largest city in the Inland Empire Metropolitan Area of Southern California, and is approximately 60 miles east of Los Angeles, and 12 miles southwest of San Bernardino. Riverside is the county seat of Riverside County, and is named for its location beside the Santa Ana River...
. The track was in operation from September 22, 1957, to July 2, 1989. The original course design proved to be dangerous, and it was partially reconfigured in 1969.
The track was built to accommodate several different
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. By closing off certain sections of the track, the route drivers had to follow could be altered. The three options on Riverside Raceway were the long course , the short course , and the
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course. The original racetrack had a backstretch from 1957 to 1968. When the track was redesigned in 1969, turn 9 was made wide and a
doglegDogleg or dog-leg may refer to:* Dog leg, an unusual manual transmission layout* Dog-leg , a configuration of stairs which includes a half-landing before turning and continuing upwards* Dogleg, a feature of a golf course...
was added to scrub speed from the race cars.
The six courses of Riverside
Before a racing event at RIR, track crews added
traffic pylonsTraffic cones, also called road cones, highway cones, safety cones or construction cones, are usually cone-shaped markers that are placed on roads or footpaths to temporarily redirect traffic in a safe manner...
to close off sections of the track. Track courses are shown in the illustrations below (the 1957 course is in black, while the 1969 course above is in blue).
Diagram notes: The long course (shown below before the 1969 version) had the backstrech. When the 1969 version was built, the dogleg was added as a speed scrubber to reduce speeds when approaching turn 9. The NASCAR course, 1st design on the right (light blue illustration), would not use turn 7. In the short course, the track would use turn
7A rather than 8. The NHRA drag strip only used the backstrech from the runoff to the Bosch Bridge. The Oval (early '60s) used turn 9, ran counterclockwise, uphill for turn 1&2 and then there was a downhill turn for 3&4.
Movies and television
RIR was also a prime spot for movie shoots. Parts of the television shows
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,
Simon and Simon,
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,
Knight Rider, and the HBO program
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were shot on location at RIR. The failed television pilot
Riding With Death (featured as an experiment on the television show
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) also contains footage of racing at RIR.
RIR was extensively featured in a 1961 telefilm episode "Route 66: The Quick and the Dead". The episode stars Martin Milner and George Maharis. Milner races a 1960 powder-blue Chevrolet Corvette in the film.
RIR was also a location shooting in the following
moviesFilm encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects....
:
The Love BugThe Love Bug was the first in a series of movies made by Walt Disney Productions that starred a white Volkswagen racing Beetle named Herbie. It was based on the 1961 book Car, Boy, Girl by Gordon Buford. The movie follows the adventures of Herbie, his driver Jim Douglas , and Jim's love interest,...
,
RoadracersRoadracers is a 1994 made-for-television film directed by Robert Rodriguez, his second feature film following the success of his 1992 debut, El Mariachi...
,
Fireball 500Fireball 500 was a stock car racing film, blended with the beach party film genre. A vehicle for stars Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello and Fabian, it was one of a string of similar racing films from the 1960s...
,
Grand PrixGrand Prix is an action film released in 1966. It was directed by John Frankenheimer with music by Maurice Jarre. It starred James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand, Brian Bedford and Antonio Sabato. Toshirô Mifune has a supporting role as a race team owner, inspired by Soichiro Honda...
,
On the BeachOn the Beach is a 1959 post-apocalyptic drama film based on Nevil Shute's novel of the same name featuring Gregory Peck , Ava Gardner , Fred Astaire and Anthony Perkins...
,
SpeedwaySpeedway is a 1968 action film musical film starring Elvis Presley as a racecar driver and Nancy Sinatra as his love interest.Scenes were shot at the Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina...
,
Stacey,
Thunder AlleyThunder Alley was an American sitcom which ran aired from March 9, 1994 to July 4, 1995 on ABC.-Synopsis:The show starred Edward Asner as retired race-car driver Gil Jones. The pilot episode featured Felicity Huffman in the role of Bobbi Turner, Gil's daughter. When ABC picked up the series,...
,
WinningWinning is a 1969 American motion picture starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. A number of racecar drivers and racing persons appear in the film, including Bobby Unser, Tony Hulman, Bobby Grim, Dan Gurney, Roger McCluskey, and Bruce Walkup....
, and
The Killers.
Many advertisements were also shot at RIR.
History
The first weekend of scheduled races in September 1957, a California Sports Car Club event, John Lawrence of Pasadena, California, lost his life. Lawrence, a former Cal Club, under 1500 c.c. Production champion, went off at Turn 5 (later designated Turn 8). With no crash barrier in place, and no rollbar on the car, the MG A he was driving went up the sand embankment, then rolled back onto the track. Though Lawrence survived the incident, and appeared slightly injured; he died later at the hospital of a brain injury.
The second major event at the track, in November 1957, was a sports car race featuring some of the top drivers of the day, including Carroll Shelby, Masten Gregory and Ken Miles. Another driver entered was an inexperienced local youngster named Dan Gurney, who had been offered the opportunity to drive a powerful but ill-handling 4.9-liter Ferrari after better known drivers like Shelby and Miles had rejected it. Shelby led early but spun and fell back. Gurney assumed the lead and led for much of the event. Shelby, driving furiously to catch up, finally overtook Gurney late in the race and won. Gurney's performance caught the eye of North American Ferrari importer Luigi Chinetti, who arranged for Gurney to drive a factory-supported Ferrari at LeMans in 1958, effectively launching the Californian's European career.
Footage exists of classic races like the 1986
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in which the Chevy Corvette of
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, attempting a three-wide pass, hit the
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of
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and the
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of
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at Turn 1. St. James' car caught fire and Chip Robinson nearly cartwheeled into the crowd. Fortunately, St. James survived the flames and Robinson escaped uninjured within the track bounds.
The track was known as a relatively dangerous course, with its long, downhill back straightaway and brake-destroying, relatively slow 180-degree Turn 9 at the end. During the 1965 Motor Trend 500 NASCAR race, Indycar great A.J. Foyt suffered a brake failure at the end of the straight, going end-over-end at high speed. Crash crews assumed Foyt was dead at the scene, until fellow driver Parnelli Jones noticed a twitch of movement. Ford factory sports car driver Ken Miles was killed there in a testing accident in August 1966 when his Ford GT-prototype (known as the J-car) became aerodynamically unstable and flew out of control at the end of the back straight. In December 1968, American Formula 5000 champion Dr. Lou Sell crashed and overturned in Turn 9 on the first lap of the Rex Mays 300 Indianapolis-style race, suffering near-fatal burns. These accidents and others caused track management to reconfigure Turn 9, giving the turn a dogleg approach and a much wider radius (a water improvement also closed the raceway for a few months).
In January 1964, Riverside also claimed the life of 1962-'63
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champion
Joe WeatherlyJoe Weatherly was a two-time NASCAR championship driver. Weatherly was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2009.-Personality:...
, who refused to wear a shoulder harness and wore his lap belt loosely. Weatherly died when he lost control entering Turn 6, hitting the steel barrier almost broadside and had his head snapped out the window against the barrier. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq9-Yi1CHIQ For a final tribute, the old version of Riverside Raceway (1957-1968) was etched on his headstone as a final joke since Joe was a comedian.
Nevertheless, in 1983 Turn 9 was the site of the only fatality in
IMSAThe International Motor Sports Association is an American auto racing sanctioning body based in Braselton, Georgia. It was started by John Bishop, a former employee of SCCA , and his wife Peggy in 1969 with help from Bill France, Sr...
GTP history. In the 1983 Times Grand Prix,
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's Joest-constructed
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lost its rear wing at the Dogleg and hit two freeway-type barriers sending it into a horrific roll at Turn 9.
When the racetrack was proposed in the mid 1950s, Riverside International Motor Raceway (as it was called at the time) was planned to ultimately be long, but the club extension was never constructed and the track's final length (after Turn 9 was adjusted in 1969 to a 10 degree banked sweeper) was .
Of the entire road course races run at RIR, there was at least one that was run in a counter-clockwise direction sometime in the 1960s. In the spring of 1966 Dan Gurney tested his first Eagle racing car on a shortened, counter-clockwise version of the track (to accommodate the car's Indianapolis-specific left-turn oiling system). The test led Gurney to propose to track president Les Richter to hold an Indianapolis-style race there. The Rex Mays 300 served as the season-ending USAC Indianapolis-car race from 1967 to 1969.
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taped the June 12, 1988, Budweiser 400 race at RIR and caught racer
Ruben GarciaRuben Garcia is an American NASCAR racer from South El Monte, California. He started out in the Winston West Series. He is best remembered for hitting the wall at the Riverside International Raceway on June 12, 1988, when he came off turn 9 and hit the wall near the grandstands.-References:*,...
crashing hard off turn 9 and his car went through two cement barriers before coming to rest near a catchfence where fans were sitting. No fans were hurt during the incident.
After 14 years of NASCAR as a driver and later a car owner,
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won his first NASCAR race in 1983, when
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drove his #3
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Chevrolet to victory in the 1983 Budweiser 400k.
From 1981 until 1987, NASCAR's championship race was at Riverside. The
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Championship Trail also held their season ending race from 1967 to 1969.
Riverside was home to track announcer
Sandy ReedSandy Reed was a track announcer with Ascot Park in Gardena, California, and the Riverside International Raceway in Riverside, California. He was in several movies, including Fireball 500....
and (along with former LA Rams player Les Richter)
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NASCAR Car owner Rick Hendrick drove a select few races at Riverside in his own cars. In the final race in 1988, he got out of the car and let
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take over.
Riverside's
Winston Western 500The Winston Western 500 was an annual NASCAR Winston Cup race held at Riverside International Raceway in Riverside, California, USA, in January, and then in later years, November. From 1965 to 1981, the race was held in January and was the season opening race...
was the opener to the NASCAR Winston Cup season until 1981, when NASCAR moved the start of the season to February and changed the starting race to the
Daytona 500The Daytona 500 is a -long NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held annually at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. It is one of four restrictor plate races on the Cup schedule. Matt Kenseth is the defending champion of the race....
. That same race was moved to the end of the year and became the season finale for the Cup Series, a distinction it held until 1986.
One of the roads alongside the Moreno Mall is called Andretti Road, a reference to Mario Andretti, who won multiple races at Riverside.
Use in gaming
The track was used in Sierra's
NASCAR LegendsNASCAR Legends is a NASCAR racing simulator developed by Papyrus Design Group for Windows-based personal computers and released under the Sierra Entertainment marque in late 1999...
and later was converted to
NASCAR 4,
NASCAR Season 2002 and
2003.
The 1969-1989 version was also used in the game
Grand Prix LegendsGrand Prix Legends is a computer racing simulator developed by Papyrus Design Group and published in 1998 by Sierra Entertainment...
.
Two of the course layouts are being used in an upcoming Classic Champ Car game.
Closure and RIR's transformation into a shopping mall
After former Los Angeles Rams player
Les RichterLes Richter is a former Los Angeles Rams National Football League football player turned auto racing president of the Riverside International Raceway.-Biography:...
sold the property to Fritz Duda in 1983, 1988 would be the final year of racing for Riverside International Raceway. On June 12, 1988, NASCAR held its final race at RIR - a race won by
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(a caution flag was out for
Ruben GarciaRuben Garcia is an American NASCAR racer from South El Monte, California. He started out in the Winston West Series. He is best remembered for hitting the wall at the Riverside International Raceway on June 12, 1988, when he came off turn 9 and hit the wall near the grandstands.-References:*,...
when he came off Turn 9 and lost control of his car and hit a wall, missing the grandstands). In 1989, after the
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held its last race, the track finally closed its gates after 32 years of racing after SCCA Cal Club racer Mark Verbofsky died and the track ended the way it started: with a dead racer. Fritz Duda turned the "House that
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built" into a
shopping mallA shopping mall, shopping centre or shopping center is a building or multiple buildings consisting of a complex of shops representing leading merchandisers, with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from unit to unit, along with a convenient parking area – a modern,...
which opened in 1992. The
Moreno Valley Mall at TowngateThe Moreno Valley Mall at Towngate is a shopping mall located on the former site of the Riverside International Raceway in Moreno Valley, California....
is on the northern end of the former Raceway Property and houses now occupy the southern end of the old racetrack (where
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and
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raced). In a 1994 topographical map, the remains of Riverside's Turn 9 and a wall were still visible. However, today nothing is left of RIR except for memorabilia from the racetrack. The old Administration Building remained until 2005, when it was torn down to make way for a complex of townhomes.
When Riverside closed in 1988, it followed in the footsteps of
Ontario Motor SpeedwayThe Ontario Motor Speedway was a race track built similar to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Designed by California born architect Walter Ted Tyler, the track opened in 1970, and was considered state of the art at the time...
(in nearby
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), which closed in 1980, and preceded by Ascot Park in 1991.
In 2003, the remainder of the old Riverside International Raceway was torn up, the sign that was at California 60 and Day Street was removed to make way for a
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and the old Turn 9 of the old track is now home to houses.
Ironically, in 2003, plans were announced in northern California, near Merced, to build a road course with a similar design to the famed Riverside layout, with a major difference in a chicane and Turn 9 (the track would have been known as the
Riverside Motorsports ParkRiverside Motorsports Park was a proposed , motorsports-themed family entertainment park to be built in Merced County, California. The name "Riverside Motorsports Park" was derived from the configuration of the park's 3-1/2 mile Road Course, which would have replicated, as closely as possible , the...
, the track plan is now dead as of 7/24/2009).
Races held at Riverside International Raceway
- The NASCAR
The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is a family-owned and operated business venture that sanctions and governs multiple auto racing sports events. It was founded by Bill France Sr. in 1947-48. As of 2009, the CEO for the company is Brian France, grandson of the late Bill France Sr...
Winston Cup SeriesThe Sprint Cup Series is the top racing series of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing . It was formerly known as the Strictly Stock Series and Grand National Series . While leasing its naming rights to R. J...
and Winston West: Motor Trend 500, NASCAR Winston Western 500The Winston Western 500 was an annual NASCAR Winston Cup race held at Riverside International Raceway in Riverside, California, USA, in January, and then in later years, November. From 1965 to 1981, the race was held in January and was the season opening race...
, and NAPA/Budweiser 400KThe Budweiser 400 was an annual summer NASCAR Winston Cup race held from 1970 to 1988 at Riverside International Raceway in Riverside, California, USA. A 400-mile race was also run at the track in November 1963. The race distance was 400 miles until 1976 when it was shortened to 249 miles...
(The Cup and West series raced together in those races.)
- The CART
A cart is a vehicle or device designed for transport, using two wheels and normally pulled by one or a pair of draught animals. A handcart is pulled or pushed by one or more people...
PPG/Indycar World Series (now Champ CarChamp Car was the name for a class and specification of cars used in American Championship Car Racing for many decades, primarily for use in the Indianapolis 500 auto race...
): AirCal 500Air California, later AirCal, was a regional airline using mainline equipment and serving different points in the state of California and some neighboring western U.S. states. It was founded by a partnership of Orange County businessmen as an alternative to other airlines and what was left of the...
/ L.A. Times 500 (1981-1983)
- USAC
The United States Auto Club is one of the sanctioning bodies of auto racing in the United States. From 1956 to 1979, the USAC sanctioned the United States National Championship, and from 1956 to 1997 the organization sanctioned the Indianapolis 500...
Championship Trail (IndycarSince 1916 there has been a recognized United States national automobile racing National Championship for drivers of professional-level, single-seat open wheel race cars. The championship has been under the auspices of several different sanctioning bodies since 1909. Since 1911, the Indianapolis...
) Rex Mays 300 (1967-1969)
- The Los Angeles Times Grand Prix
The Los Angeles Times Grand Prix was sponsored by the Times to produce money for its charities. The Special Events director was Glenn Davis, the winner of the 1946 Heisman Trophy. His secretary was Joanna Gorner, who had been Carroll Shelby's secretary when he was beginning his Cobra team. Will...
of Endurance
- The 1960 United States Grand Prix
The 1960 United States Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on November 20, 1960 at Riverside International Raceway in Riverside, California.__FORCETOC__-Summary:...
- (Unofficial) 24 hours of Riverside, testing the Chevy Corvair
- IROC
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- NHRA drag racing
Drag racing is a competition in which vehicles compete to be the first to cross a set finish line, usually from a standing start, and in a straight line. First gaining popularity in the USA after World War II , the sport steadily grew in popularity and spread across the globe...
in the mid sixties.
- SCORE International
SCORE International is an off-road sanctioning body in the sport of desert racing and is famous for its flagship event, the Baja 1000. SCORE races are held in United States and Mexico...
Off Road World Championships, the last one was held in August 1988.
- IMSA
The International Motor Sports Association is an American auto racing sanctioning body based in Braselton, Georgia. It was started by John Bishop, a former employee of SCCA , and his wife Peggy in 1969 with help from Bill France, Sr...
and SCCAThe Sports Car Club of America is a club and sanctioning body supporting road racing, rally, and autocross in the United States and was formed in 1944...
car races
- Rex Mays 300
Rex Mays is a former AAA Championship Car race driver from Riverside, California. He made his Indianapolis 500 debut in 1934 and won the pole in 1935, 1936, and again in 1940 and finished second, he returned the next year and finished second again...
- AMA motorcycle racing
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