Movies and Television
Due to its proximity to the Southern California entertainment industry, RIR was a frequent filming location for Hollywood movies, television series and commercial advertisements.
Scenes from the television shows CHiPs, Simon and Simon,The Rockford Files, Knight Rider, and the HBO program Super Dave Osborne were shot on location at RIR. The failed television pilot Riding With Death, featured as an experiment on the television show Mystery Science Theater 3000, also contains footage of racing at RIR.
RIR was extensively featured in the 1961 telefilm "The Quick and the Dead," an episode of the series Route 66. The episode stars Martin Milner and George Maharis, and guest stars Harvey Korman, Regis Toomey, and Betsy Jones-Moreland. Milner races a 1960 powder-blue Chevrolet Corvette in the film.
Film shoots at RIR included scenes from: The Betsy (1978), Fireball 500 (1966), Grand Prix (1966), The Killers (1964), The Love Bug (1968), On the Beach (1959), Roadracers (1959), Speedway (1966), Stacey (1973), Thunder Alley (1967), Winning (1969), and Viva Las Vegas (1964).
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