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Season opening Pro Drive Racing School April 10-11
The 2-Day Pro Drive Racing School is the ultimate driving experience. Get behind the wheel of a real race car and experience the thrill of the race from the best seat in the house. You’ll learn the fastest way around…
Cascade Sports Car Club Announces Schedule
Cascade Sports Car Club’s 2025 season is packed with thrilling events for both participants and spectators. Our HPDE events get you and your car on the track, while our races offer exciting, close wheel-to-wheel action. Spectators enjoy FREE admission, parking,…
Tire Rack Street Survival school is coming soon!
The Tire Rack Street Survival® school is a safe teen driving program designed to go beyond today’s required driver education and give teens across the U.S. the driving tools and hands-on experience they need to become safer, smarter drivers. The school provides trained…
Lucky Dog Racing League “Salute to the Dawgs” Returns to PIR
Lucky Dog Racing League returns to Portland International Raceway on July 19-20, 2025 for “Salute to the Dawgs,” presented by Oregon’s own Pyrotect. The event honors our veterans, military, first-responders, and their families & veterans racing program Heroes Motorsports. Since…
FOPIR Thanks Volunteers
The August IndyCar race at PIR marked the conclusion of “FOPIR” road racing events in 2024. Starting with NASCAR and Formula E in June, and followed by the Rose Cup Races in July, hundreds of volunteers have worked tirelessly to…
Big Indy Car Weekend at PIR
The NTT INDYCAR SERIES returns to Portland International Raceway on August 23-25, 2024. The 2024 BITNILE.COM Grand Prix of Portland will mark the 30th open-wheel race weekend at PIR and the 40th anniversary of the first race held in 1984…
Trans Am Series Returns to Portland
The Trans Am Series presented by Pirelli’s Western Championship returns from a nearly three-month hiatus for the PIR SpeedTour at Portland International Raceway. The Trans Am Series has been visiting Portland since 1972, holding 31 races at the 1.97-mile circuit…
Don’t Miss the 58th Annual Thursday Night Motocross
Racing at PIR on Thursday Nights began back in the early 1970’s when a guy by the name of Jim Rockstead had just been up at Sidewinders the Friday night before watching the flat track races and thinking how cool…
Feel the Thunder of Late Model Stock Cars
If you loved the NASCAR Xfinity Series race here at PIR in May, you’ll want to find the best seats at the track for the Rose Cup Races’ Late Model Stock Cars. This race is open to all late models…
The Heart of Amateur Racing
At this weekend’s Rose Cup Races, there’s one group of cars that represents the heart and soul of amateur racing, and the deep history of the Rose Cup. The Small-Mid Bore race group comprises street cars of the 1970s, 80s,…
62 Years of Rose Cup History
In the first months of 1961, the Portland Rose Festival Association partnered with the city’s Jaycees club and Cascade Sports Car Club to launch a new sports car racing event as part of the city’s annual Rose Festival civic celebration.…
Go racing with Spec Racer Ford
One of the most popular amateur racing series in America is the Sports Car Club of America’s Spec Racer Ford. With more than 900 cars built over more than 35 years, the Spec Racer Ford offers an affordable way to…
Thrilling Spec Miata Racing!
With their brightly colored paint jobs, Spec Miata race cars are often jokingly known as Skittles, named after the candy. But don’t be fooled by the size or the colors, because Spec Miata is always one of the closest and…
Rose Cup Races Event Preview
For over 60 years, the Rose Cup Races have represented the best in local amateur racing and big-league professional sports car racing in America. The Rose Cups are the longest-running annual race west of the Mississippi River, and this year,…
Gary Bockman Pole Award Tradition Continues
Beginning in 2022, the pole position award given to the fastest Rose Cup Qualifier was named in honor of Gary Bockman. For those who have been involved in racing at PIR over the last 50 years, there is no person…