The zMAX CARS Tour announced its 2025 schedule on Monday afternoon, with an impressive 15-race schedule featuring some big changes. The Southeast’s premier Late Model Stock Car and Pro Late Model touring series will kick off its season on Saturday, March 1, and conclude its season seven months later on Saturday, October 18.

With a stretch-run for the SMART Modified Tour just one race away, series officials have announced the “SMART 3” Playoff format.  The playoff will determine the final series standings and 2024 SMART Modified Tour powered by Pace-O-Matic champion.

For the second time in the last three races, Brenden “Butterbean” Queen was celebrating in CARS Tour victory lane, this time at Dominion Raceway. Queen won the pole with a new CARS Tour track record, and then led all 125 laps to score his second victory of the season.

Continuing its swing through Virginia, the zMAX CARS Tour Late Model Stock Car series will invade Dominion Raceway for the Mini’s Mission 125 Late Model Stock Car event. The flat and fast.400-mile oval is another layout that engenders tight racing with plenty of passing. In seven previous trips to Dominion, there’s been a different winner for each race, so the competition to become the first two-time winner will play out among Bobby McCarty and Connor Hall. For Hall, it would be a second straight Virginia victory after he won in a photo finish on June 1 at Langley Speedway. The race is sponsored by Mini’s Mission, a charitable effort led by Manassas, Va. native Mini Tyrrell, driver of the No. 81 Convenience Tire and Auto Chevrolet in the zMAX CARS Tour Late Model Stock Car division.

The “Bean Machine” is back for two more NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series races in 2024 with Tricon Garage. The Mooresville, North Carolina-based team announced that CARS Tour championship contender Brenden “Butterbean” Queen will be back in one of their trucks at Nashville Superspeedway at the end of June and Kansas Speedway in September.