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Christopher Bell's Dirt Racing Schedule Entering 2025

Christopher Bell's Dirt Racing Schedule Entering 2025

NASCAR Cup Series driver Christopher Bell is filling up his dirt racing schedule for the 2025 season.

Dec 31, 2024 by Kyle McFadden
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Christopher Bell's dirt racing schedule for the 2025 season is filling up rather quickly as the NASCAR Cup Series superstar is set to appear in a Micro Sprint, Midget and 410 Sprint Car over the next three months. 

The 30-year-old has a handful of events tentatively lined up to begin the New Year, starting with his return this week to the Smiley’s Racing Products Tulsa Shootout powered by NOS Energy Drink after a three-year absence from The Mecca of Micros. 

Bell will compete in the Winged Outlaw and Non-Wing Outlaw divisions Dec. 31-Jan. 4 at the Tulsa Shootout with his Bell-Kemenah Racing No. 21x Micro Sprint team. Then, the quest to add a fourth Golden Driller to his sterling Chili Bowl Nationals resume is on as the ultimate Midget racing crown jewel takes over Tulsa Expo Raceway from Jan. 12-18.

Powerhouse Midget program Keith Kunz Motorsports will bring back the No. 71W for Bell, the very number the Norman, Okla., driver won all three Chili Bowl Nationals with from 2017-19. Bell also finished second in Kunz's No. 71W in the 2022 Chili Bowl Nationals, his last appearance at the famed event, to give him four-straight top-two Chili Bowl A-main finishes with Kunz (Bell raced Chad Boat-owned Midgets from 2020-21).

And finally, the most recent development well-received among the dirt-track racing was the news that Bell's making his 410 Sprint Car return in February with the revered Kreitz Racing No. 69K team owned by Don Kreitz, a National Sprint Car Hall of Famer.

Bell has two confirmed races in the Kreitz-owned No. 69K: Feb. 5's World of Outlaws season opener at Volusia Speedway Parl and March 13's Kubota High Limit racing season opener at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Bell is likely to race Feb. 6's WoO race at Volusia, too, as long as "everything goes OK" on Feb. 5, per Kreitz.

Bell already has two dirt races under his belt since Joe Gibbs Racing lifted restrictions in November that previously kept their drivers from racing extracurricular events. On Dec. 14, he won the POWRi Non-Wing Outlaw feature inside Southern Illinois Center against a 38-car field and placed second in the POWRi Midget feature that same day against a 55-car field.

Three of those events — the Tulsa Shootout, Chili Bowl Nationals and High Limit opener at Las Vegas — are streamed live on FloRacing. To subscribe, click here.

Christopher Bell's 2025 Dirt Racing Schedule

(Note: Feb. 6's World of Outlaws race at Volusia Speedway Park is tentative)

Date

Event

Location

Division

Dec. 31

Tulsa Shootout Practice

Tulsa Expo Raceway (OK)

Wing/Non-Wing Outlaw

Jan. 1

Tulsa Shootout Heat Races

Tulsa Expo Raceway (OK)

Wing Outlaw

Jan. 2

Tulsa Shootout Heat Races

Tulsa Expo Raceway (OK)

Non-Wing Outlaw

Jan. 3 

Tulsa Shootout Qualifiers

Tulsa Expo Raceway (OK)

Wing/Non-Wing Outlaw

Jan. 4 

Tulsa Shootout Features

Tulsa Expo Raceway (OK)

Wing/Non-Wing Outlaw

Jan. 12

Chili Bowl Nationals Practice

Tulsa Expo Raceway (OK)

Midget

Jan. 13

Chili Bowl Nationals Race of Champions

Tulsa Expo Raceway (OK)

Midget

Jan. 13-17

Chili Bowl Nationals Qualifying Night (TBD)

Tulsa Expo Raceway (OK)

Midget

Jan. 18

39th Annual Chili Bowl Nationals 

Tulsa Expo Raceway (OK)

Midget

Feb. 4

World of Outlaws DIRTcar Nationals Practice

Volusia Speedway Park (FL)

410 Sprint Car

Feb. 5

World of Outlaws DIRTcar Nationals 

Volusia Speedway Park (FL)

410 Sprint Car

Feb. 6

World of Outlaws DIRTcar Nationals

Volusia Speedway Park (FL)

410 Sprint Car

March 13

Kubota High Limit Racing Season Opener

Las Vegas Motor Speedway

410 Sprint Car