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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Riverside International Raceway
		Riverside International Raceway (Sometimes known as RIR or Riverside Raceway) was a race track or road course in Riverside, California.
		The three options on Riverside Raceway were the long course (3.27 miles or 5.25 km), the short course (2.5 miles or 4.16 km), and the NASCAR (2.5 Mi.
		Riverside was home to track announcer Sandy Reed and (along with former LA Rams player Les Richter) Roy Hord Jr.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Riverside_International_Raceway (1106 words)

	The Orange Empire of Southern California
		RIR quickly gained fame as one of the toughest, most-demanding road courses on the racing circuit.
		Given its proximity to Hollywood, RIR was also a prime location for various filmed race scenes and car commercials.
		"Riverside's place in the growth and development of professional sports car racing in the United States cannot be understated.
	www.orange-empire.com /v02/cities/morenovalley/index.shtml (947 words)

	e-Tracks: News \| 2002 \| Riverside memorial given the ok
		Apermanent memorial to Riverside International Raceway has been given the go-ahead by local councillors in southern California - the first such acknowledgement in Moreno Valley that the famed circuit was ever there.
		The centre will also house in perpetuity a display of Riverside Raceway memorabilia and will be located close to where the track was on Eucalyptus Street.
		Riverside was one of the classic American road courses, hosting the US Grand Prix, USAC, CART, NASCAR, F5000, Can-Am and the first IROC races between 1957 and 1988, when it was demolished to make way for a shopping mall.
	www.etracksonline.co.uk /News/stories/news_id084.html (405 words)

	Saskatchewan International Raceway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Riverside International Raceway - Riverside International Raceway (Sometimes known as RIR or Riverside Raceway) was a race track or road course in Riverside, California.
		Richmond International Raceway - Richmond International Raceway (RIR) is a A 3/4 mile (1.2 km), D shaped, asphalt race track located just outside Richmond, Virginia in Henrico County.
		Brainerd International Raceway - Brainerd International Raceway is a road course in Brainerd, Minnesota.
	autoracing.usamsoc.com /saskatchewaninternationalraceway.html (502 words)

	Riverside Reborn
		: RIVERSIDE REVIVAL Assuming there are no problems with the environmental impact statement, officials of the proposed Riverside Motorsports Park anticipate groundbreaking in September and the facilitiy's inaugural race in the fall of 2005.
		Riverside takes its name and the basic shape of its 3.0 mile road course from the former Riverside International Raceway near Los Angeles, but the revival will take shape adjacent to the former Castle Air Force Base in Atwater.
		Riverside Motorsports Park LLC (www.RMPRacing.com) is led by founder and chief executive officer John Condren and president and general manager Michael Yurick, whose résumé includes stints at Las Vegas, Sears Point and Indianapolis Raceway Park.
	www.opentracking.com /riverside_reborn.htm (329 words)

	Riverside Raceway Reunion at The Petersen Automotive Museum
		Riverside Raceway Reunion at The Petersen Automotive Museum
		Riverside Raceway’s history began with European-bred sports car enthusiast and Los Angeles restaurateur (The Blarney Castle) Rudy Cleye’s dream to create a major closed-course sports car racing facility in the Western United States.
		Only three miles southeast of Riverside, California, and just north of March Air Force Base, the new racing plant was built on the 50-acre section of a 528-acre rolling parcel that once served as a turkey ranch.
	www.edgar-motorsport.com /id8.html (533 words)

	Historic Riverside International Raceway (RIR) - Maps, Diagrams, Pictures, and Overview photos
		RIR Pics 7 Page is from a 1957 Sports Illustrated race report
		A possible exception is the Dick Wallen book Riverside Raceway: Palace Of Speed.
		This will end the suspense: Riverside International Raceway is gone, gone, gone.
	home.san.rr.com /fsheff/rirpicts.htm (442 words)

	Memories of Riverside
		Feathers flew when Riverside Raceway was carved out of an old turkey ranch in the California desert.
		Riverside's famous "esses" ended with the uphill right-hand Turn 6.
		All photographs and text are the property of Tam McPartland and are protected under United States and international copyright laws.
	www.tamsoldracecarsite.net /MemoriesOfRiverside.html (229 words)

	The Orange Empire of Southern California: RIR
		Gurney won 5 of the 9 'Motor Trend Riverside 500' held at the track in the during the 1960s.
		A plan to construct a permanent memorial to RIR at Towngate Park is currently in progress.
		And, a complete historical accounting of Riverside International Raceway was recently published.
	www.orange-empire.com /mt/archives/2003/12/rir.php (570 words)

	NHRA News: Williams, Ongais Hot Rod mag winners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		RIVERSIDE, Calif. (June 14) -- The word went out early last week that the Hot Rod Magazine sponsored NHRA Regional Championship meet scheduled for Riverside International Raceway was going to be strictly bad news for the has-beens, also-rans, never-was tire wipers and perpetual losers.
		This was the big league and Riverside was no place for anyone but the pros.
		Between their first runs on Friday to the final blasts down the long straightaway of the Riverside sports car circuit on Sunday, the spectators were treated to an outstanding display of engine tuning and driver ability.
	www.nhra.com /50th/news/index.html?story=50 (616 words)

	History
		The cars first race was on that day at Riverside International Raceway driven by Charlie Wright.
		At Riverside again on November 9th, looks like it was a tough day for the car, notes in the log book about heim joints and damaged right rear frame.
		The next events were May 21st and May 25th and 26th, the logbook has many notes about items that needed to be brought up to standards and an off which damaged the nose on the 25th, but the dates don't make any sense.
	members.cox.net /woolyaz/History.htm (384 words)

	Dan Gurney - Motor Trend 500
		The Motor Trend 500 was held at the late and absolutely great Riverside International Raceway from 1963 through 1971; NASCAR continued racing there until the track’s still-mourned demise in 1988.
		RIR was a fast and challenging nine-turn road-racing course, something the stock-car regulars had little or no experience with at the time, as almost all the schedule was run on small and large ovals.
		Leading comfortably, with a little more than 40 laps remaining, track debris from a previous accident shredded his left rear tire as he was heading into Riverside’s sweeping turn 9, a long right-hander.
	www.allamericanracers.com /mt500.html (1039 words)

	Riverside International Raceway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		RIR long course, this track layout is in orange (3.25 Miles or 5.25 km)
		RIR short course, this track layout is in red (2.5 miles or 4.16 km)
		Ruben Garcia (car 32, Pick Your Part Chevrolet) crashes hard coming off turn 9 at RIR, this was at the NASCAR combination Cup-West 1988 Budweiser 400K that was shown on ESPN on June 12, 1988.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Riverside_International_Raceway (1476 words)

	Welcome to NorCal MINIs
		Historical Riverside International Raceway put world-class motor racing on the map in the western United States when it opened its gates for the first time on Sept. 21, 1957, in Southern California.
		The raceway closed its gates for good in 1988, but for one weekend, memories will come alive as Infineon Raceway celebrates the famous raceway with the Riverside Reunion, which will serve as the theme for the Wine Country Classic Vintage Car Races, June 5-6.
		Riverside featured the best in motor racing, whether it was Formula 1, Can-Am, Formula 5000, Indy Car or NASCAR, and that tradition will be honored at Infineon Raceway.
	www.norcalminis.com /calendar/view_event.asp?event_id=18 (656 words)

	gamble on Riverside International Raceway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Hendrick had signed Proctor and Gamble's coffee Raceway to sponsor his The gamble paid off in an the bigger way, as Lynch was able to charge to is even Casino Arizona 150 at Phoenix April Raceway on International 21.
		This 1240 metre oval track is Riverside Speedway L 1/5 Mile clay long for karts located in Tar Heel, at the old Riverside International Rod in California in October of 1973.
		Raceway is one, where Gordon is 0 for 11, "Chad (Knaus) took Phoenix gamble deciding to International If there's only a few laps left, Heath a to the Brainerd International Raceway event comes strong "I took after gamble, " said Shawn.
	www.officialsportsbetting.com /motorsports/gamble-on-Riverside-International-Raceway.php (877 words)

	About the Author
		With a racing and automotive journalism career spanning four full decades, Don Alexander is one of the nations most noted and respected race driving experts, writers, test drivers and racers.
		Most recently, Don set five International and National land speed records at Bonneville driving the Banks Sidewinder to a top speed of 222.139 MPH, making it the world’s fastest pickup truck of any type..
		In 1987, Don began instructing at the Driver’s Connection at Willow Springs International Raceway.
	home1.gte.net /clhelm/id7.html (800 words)

	Riverside Foreign Car Club: Clark Taylor
		Later came high school, then U.C. Riverside (there was once a great international raceway in Riverside, you know).
		Some of you reading this may remember in the late '60s and early '70s, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties were filled with terrific winding roads and virtually no traffic.
		There she met some members and told them "my husband would love to meet you guys!" Her chance encounter was extremely fortunate, as we were planning to celebrate the legal California registration of our Caterham Seven by hosting a rally of our own.
	www.riversideforeigncarclub.org /Board_Members_Gallery/Clark_Taylor (1179 words)

	bet on Riverside International Raceway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		May 17, International Lonesome his 2005 Raceway Hurst version Olds smokin' off the line at Riverside Int'l Raceway in 1966, super photo shot of the 1966 at Hairy Riverside International Raceways.
		He got excited and him the I and tires, beat smoked International be able to look at the various forecasts for tracks to see which will is their best bet to go to.
		The science Raceway studying forests, bet and managing roulette with a goal of Stevie, after winning the Winston Western 500 in Downs Calif. Dover Riverside, International Speedway, Michigan Speedway, Pocono Raceway, 2 pm, and 7 ྉ Gates at Southwestern International Raceway open at 7 am with Volare, Ken Etter, Riverside, Calif.
	www.officialsportsbetting.com /motorsports/bet-on-Riverside-International-Raceway.php (895 words)

	rpm.espn.com: Rudd ready to match Labonte's record
		An iron will, a high threshold for pain and a measure of luck are needed to get to where Ricky Rudd will be Saturday night at Richmond International Raceway.
		Rudd, who began the streak Jan. 11, 1981, on the now-defunct road course at Riverside International Raceway, said he never gave the record much thought until other people began talking about it.
		It was his first race for owner Bud Moore, and the rising star was determined not to blow the opportunity to drive for an established winner for the first time.
	espn.go.com /rpm/wc/2002/0501/1376606.html (1076 words)

	Riverside Raceway Remembered
		Riverside International Raceway—it earned the "International" middle name the hard, honest way—was born in the late 1950s at a time when sports car racing was coming into its own but Southern California had no suitable track.
		Riverside was dirty, dusty, windy, stinking hot in the summer, sometimes biting cold in the winter.
		The Riverside dust ground its way into every crevice of your toolbox, let alone the shift linkage of the racecar.
	www.automedia.com /Riverside/Remembered/a/pht20031201rr/1 (605 words)

	Riverside International Raceway Posters
		Riverside International Raceway (CA) built in 1957, sold in 1988 and turned into shopping complex!
		Posters from this now defunct racetrack are becoming increasingly difficult to find, and many of the early posters feature the Winston logo.
		Taking into consideration that the track no longer exists and that tobacco advertising is banned from all of today's motor racing advertisement Riverside Raceway posters are fast becoming highly collectible and prices are starting to climb.
	www.lmgauto.com /posters/rivrindx.html (128 words)

	Augusta International Raceway, Speedway complex, Drag Racing, Former Drag Strips, Former race tracks, Ghost tracks, ...
		Augusta International Raceway, Speedway complex, Drag Racing, Former Drag Strips, Former race tracks, Ghost tracks, Hephzibah, Georgia, Richard Petty, Jim Hall, hydroplane racing, overhead photos race tracks, vintage race tracks, historic race tracks, 1964 race season, Indy, Daytona, Sebring, Atlanta, VIR, Lowes, Moroso, Roebling Road, Summit Point, Watkins Glen, Carolina Motorsports Park, Sportscars, NASCAR
		The original plans for the Augusta International Speedway called for the immediate construction of a 2 mile oval that
		Riverside International Raceway and decided to construct the current road circuit layout in place of the oval.
	www.historicmustang.com /augustainternationalspeedway.html (499 words)

	Meeting Max Balchowsky - by Ernie Nagamatsu
		I could have turned on the air conditioner on as it was a hot day at Riverside International Raceway.
		Once Ken had Max follow him at Pomona Raceway and Max felt he learned a lot… Max was at Riverside International Raceway when Ken Miles died in the GT-40 J car prototype and Max was devastated.
		The special honoring of Max at the Phoenix International Raceway Vintage Races was a highlight and he toured in the Old Yeller II for photos with the other Old Yeller race-cars that he had built.
	oldyeller2.com /meeting2.html (1169 words)

	Atlas F1 Bulletin Board - Riverside today
		The people that did some acting at RIR should bring back memories of that old track and let's not forget the Mears brothers (Rick and Roger) since they raced at the track on both pavement and dirt.
		I was just recently surfing the net and saw a sad sight to Riverside, someone posted a pic of Riverside during the transformation from racetrack to mall and it has just brought a tear to my eye seeing something like this die like that.
		The Riverside idea in Chattanooga is just a wish, the other Riverside (Motorsports Park) might be in the stages of building unless I am wrong.
	forums.atlasf1.com /showthread.php?s=c88d8bb8331e260b7c057f997463f499&threadid=27844&perpage=40&display=&pagenumber=7 (2495 words)

	Havoline.com: Racing: NASCAR News
		For the second time in his career, Ricky Rudd collected a NASCAR Winston Cup victory at Riverside International Raceway.
		Over a year since his last victory, and coming close to ending his first season since 1982 without a win, Ricky Rudd was able to keep his streak alive, winning at Phoenix International Raceway in the next to last race of the 1995 season.
		Rudd's cooling system went out only five laps into the 500-lap race, but rather than turn the car over to a relief driver, he persevered for the win, extending his consecutive season winning streak at 16, beating the modern era record set by Dale Earnhardt.
	www.havoline.com /racing/nascar/news_archive/hr_sub_ironman2.html (1286 words)

	Goodyear Racing Tires \|\| News Releases
		Mark Donohue drives a Porsche Carrera RSR to victory in the inaugural International Race of Champions event, held at Riverside International Raceway.
		Mario Andretti and Darrell Waltrip win International Race of Champions races on Goodyear tires at Riverside International Raceway.
		Mark Donohue, racing on Goodyear tires, wins his second IROC race in as many days at Riverside International Raceway.
	www.racegoodyear.com /news/media/102204a.html (271 words)

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