INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — Brandon Overton’s plans are coming more into focus for the 2025 season as the Longhorn Factory Team intends to follow the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, crew chief Anthony Burroughs told FloRacing's DirtonDirt.com at Friday’s Performance Racing Industry Trade Show.

“Yep, our main goal is to get ready to win a Lucas Oil Series championship,” Burroughs said, the veteran crew chief who finished his 2024 Lucas Oil campaign with Hudson O’Neal and SSI Motorsports before officially starting his duties at the Longhorn Factory Team.

The revamped Longhorn Factory Team with Overton at the wheel and Burroughs overseeing race-day operations from the Longhorn Chassis headquarters in China Grove, N.C., made their debut together last weekend during the Gateway Dirt Nationals inside The Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis, Mo.

Overton finished 14th in the 40-lap feature around the temporary fifth-mile oval after needing a provisional to start the main event when a flat tire while leading his heat race on prelim night derailed his chances at a pristine starting spot for Saturday’s action.

“The Dome was good. Obviously, we didn’t have the results we wanted. But at that time, we hadn’t tested yet, so that was our first time at the track,” said Burroughs, whose plans to initially test at Senoia (Ga.) Raceway before The Dome had been nixed by weather. “The weather was kinda iffy and I didn’t think we were quite ready yet. So that was our first time at the track. All that went excellent.

“We had some speed, but getting to work together with the guys at the track, being with Brandon, and all that went perfect. The communication was great. Our team’s solid, we knew that before we got there. But it’s still nice to get to the track."

Overton, who finished sixth on the 2023 Lucas Oil tour before winning the Hunt the Front Super Dirt Series championship this season, will likely begin his 2025 campaign during Jan. 15-18’s Super Bowl of Racing that opens the Lucas Oil season at Georgia’s Golden Isles Speedway.

Burroughs said “there’s always a possibility” the team could make the cross-country trek to Vado (N.M.) Speedway Park’s Wild West Shootout that runs Jan. 4-12, but that’s unlikely.

The Longhorn Factory Team does have tests next week at Golden Isles Speedweek, Ocala (Fla.) Speedway and All-Tech Raceway in Ellisville, Fla., before returning to the racetrack in 2025.

“I would love to go to Vado, but being a new team, only having a couple days to get to Brunswick, our main goal right now is to be prepared for Lucas Oil and to be prepared for Speedweeks,” Burroughs said. “We’re going to run all the races at Speedweek. That’s the main focus for me. If everything works out and we have time, I’d say this year probably won’t be at Vado. Hopefully after this year we’ll be able to support it for years to come.”