With the Lucas Oil Late Mode Dirt Series season concluding over the weekend at the 44th annual General Tire Dirt Track World Championship presented by ARP at Eldora Speedway, the tour unveiled its schedule for the 2025 season.

As the series welcomes FloRacing as its presenting sponsor for next season, there are numerous schedule changes to break down and detail across the 58-race touring calendar.

The 2025 Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series season is marked by a whopping $1.27 million points fund, an additional $750,000 in feature purses, a series championship prize of $250,000 (up from $200,000), new and improved events, and a new-look Georgia-Florida Speedweeks.

Below we break down the biggest changes on the 2025 Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series schedule.

The New-Look Georgia-Florida Speedweeks

The modified Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series schedule will be felt from the season's onset as Georgia-Florida Speedweeks moves on without East Bay Raceway Park. 

The Super Bowl of Racing at Georgia's Golden Isles Speedway expands to four race nights instead of three and its Jan. 15-18 opener marks the earliest-ever start to the Lucas Oil Series season. Florida's All-Tech Raceway gets an additional date as well, going from two race nights to three from Jan. 30-Feb. 1.

Florida's Ocala Speedway is the new home of the five-race Winternationals as the unique, egg-shaped 3/8-mile oval rounds out Speedweeks from Feb. 4-8.

New Tracks, Events On Lucas Oil Series Schedule

Indianapolis-located Circle City Raceway is the only new track on the 2025 Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series schedule. The quarter-mile hosts a $15,000-to-win event on May 2, which replaces Kentucky's Ponderosa Speedway on the tour's calendar the first Friday of May.

Along with Ponderosa, Illinois-based Tri-City Speedway and West Virginia's Tyler County Speedway are tracks not on the tour's 2025 schedule. Tri-City's mid-July date has been replaced by Missouri's Lucas Oil Speedway, which now has a July 11-12 doubleheader and five series race nights.

Tyler County's eight-year run hosting the Hillbilly Hundred — the longest running 100-lap Dirt Late Model event — has ended as the Carl Short-promoted event moves to Lernerville Speedway and expands to two nights Aug. 29-30.

It'll also be the first time the Hillbilly Hundred will be contested outside West Virginia since the race began in 1967. As a result of the Hillbilly Hundred moving to two nights at Lernerville, Ohio's Portsmouth Raceway Park loses its August date, but remains on the series schedule July 4.

Eagle Raceway joins Golden Isles Speedway, All-Tech Raceway, Lucas Oil Speedway and Lernerville Speedway in tracks that'll have additional series dates as the third-mile Nebraska oval receives a three-day event May 15-17 culminating with a $50,000-to-win finale the week before the Show-Me 100.

Richer Purses For Lucas Oil Series Crown Jewels

Many Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series events are bolstered in purse money for the 2025 season, namely $75,000 winner's shares (up from $50,000) for the Show-Me 100 at Lucas Oil Speedway, Knoxville Late Model Nationals at Knoxville Raceway and Silver Dollar Nationals at Huset's Speedway.

Eagle Raceway's $50,000-to-win event May 17 is now the first event paying more than $50,000-to-win on the series schedule. Furthermore, Saturday night features pay a minimum $25,000-to-win (up from $15,000) and Friday night features a minimum $15,000-to-win (up from $12,000).

All told, 16 of the 58 series race dates have purse increases from the 2024 season.

• Feb. 4 at Ocala Speedway (replacing East Bay's Winternationals opener): $7,000-to-win from $5,000
• Feb. 5 at Ocala (replacing East Bay's Winternationals second night): $10,000-to-win from $7,000
• Feb. 8 at Ocala (replacing East Bay's Winternationals finale): $25,000-to-win from $15,000
• March 21 at Atomic Speedway: $15,000-to-win from $12,000
• March 22 at Brownstown Speedway: $25,000-to-win from $15,000
• April 25 at Georgetown Speedway: $20,049-to-win from $19,049
• April 26 at Hagerstown Speedway: $25,000-to-win from $15,000
• May 3 at Florence Speedway: $25,000-to-win from $15,000
• May 17 at Eagle Raceway: $50,000-to-win from $10,000
• May 24 at Lucas Oil Speedway: $75,000-to-win from $50,000
• July 4 at Portsmouth Speedway: $25,000-to-win from $15,000
• July 5 at Muskingum Speedway: $25,000-to-win from $15,000
• July 12 at Lucas Oil Speedway: $25,000-to-win from $20,000
• July 16 at Shelby County Speedway: $25,053-to-win from $10,053
• July 18 at Huset's Speedway: $75,000-to-win from $50,000
• Sept. 20 at Knoxville Raceway: $75,000-to-win from $50,000

Tweaked Chase For The Championship Format

The 2025 Chase for the Championship features a five-race playoff among the top-four drivers across three racetracks beginning Sept. 26-27 at Indiana's Brownstown Speedway during Jackson 100 weekend.

That makes Sep. 20's Knoxville Late Model Nationals the final regular season points event. Pittsburgh's Pennsylvania Motor Speedway and the Pittsburgh 100 on Oct. 3-4 are third- and fourth-round playoff races for the series, which again crowns a champion Oct. 18 at Eldora Speedway's Dirt Track World Championship.

What's new for the 2025 Lucas Oil playoffs is each Big Four driver gets 10 points per series victory in points-paying races to start the five-race playoff.

This year, Ricky Thornton Jr. had 10 regular season points-paying victories, with Devin Moran (five victories of such kind), Jonathan Davenport (four victories of such kind), and Tim McCreadie (two victories of such kind) following suit.