Billy Moyer Planning An Aggressive 50-Plus Race Schedule For 2025

Billy Moyer Planning An Aggressive 50-Plus Race Schedule For 2025

Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame driver Billy Moyer is planning an aggressive 50-plus race schedule in 2025.

Dec 16, 2024 by Kyle McFadden
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Hall of Fame racer Billy Moyer isn’t ready to call it quits nor dial back his long-standing racing career. The 67-year-old, with Batesville, Ark., car owner Keith Lawson, is planning an aggressive 50-plus race schedule in 2025.

Moyer suspects most races will be spread across the Midwest in Illinois, Iowa and Missouri with some of the sport’s biggest events sprinkled in along the way, such as Eldora Speedway’s Dirt Late Model Dream and World 100. The Gateway Dirt Nationals at The Dome at America’s Center is also on Moyer’s radar next year.

“I’d say 50-60 races, possibly 70 races. It’s a lot of races for us,” Moyer said Saturday near the Penske Racing Shocks booth. “We’re just trying to put together our team and our equipment. He’s buying a lot of new things, a lot of top-quality stuff so that hopefully we run well. But we need some more help. We need one or two more guys than what we have now.”

Moyer, who teamed up with Lawson the last weekend of August after he purchased a 2024 Longhorn Chassis from Lance Landers, does have Hall of Fame crewman Steve Norris working for him, but that’s it. His race volume will ultimately be dependent upon crew help.

Moyer produced four podium finishes in seven starts with Lawson to end the season, including Sept. 20’s Comp Cams Super Dirt Series victory at Batesville Motor Speedway in Locust Grove, Ark., the 853rd victory of his storied career.

Optimistic he can build off that competitiveness, Moyer’s now planning his most aggressive schedule since 2019 when he logged 70 races. He managed 40 events this year despite a six-week layoff following July 6’s nasty wreck at Minnesota’s Deer Creek Speedway.

“That didn’t seem like it was much,” Moyer said of his 40-race 2024 schedule. “Another 10-20 doesn’t seem out of the picture … the more you race, the more you get acquainted with the car and you make better decisions. When you don’t race every weekend, you kind of get behind on making changes on the car.”

Along with a relatively new Longhorn Chassis previously, Lawson has purchased a brand-new transporter and a brand-new merchandise trailer for Moyer, who will race as much as possible in 2025 because of Lawson’s overwhelming support.

“That’s right. There’s gotta be a time when you get too old and you can’t do it anymore. But I’m still having fun doing it, still having fun working on the cars, and he’s letting me run the whole operation out of my Batesville shop,” Moyer said. “It’s big for me to run that out of my place again.”