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The NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, starring the best and most decorated sportsman drivers in drag racing, announced the schedule for the upcoming 2025 season, featuring stops at standout racing facilities across the country.

The 2025 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series season begins on Feb. 20-23 at Firebird Motorsports Park in Phoenix and Feb. 21-22 at Orlando Speed World Dragway, and the thrilling year will include 45 divisional events and 21 regional events, with the season finale taking place Nov. 6-9 at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

The year will also include 16 double divisional events, up from previous seasons, as well as two SPORTSnationals races. The exciting Top Alcohol categories will be contested at three specialty events during the 2025 campaign as well, with the popular Cleetus and Cars event at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park (May 2-3), and Night Under Fire at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio as part of the North Central Regional (Aug. 1-2), and the Firebird Fall Shootout at Firebird Motorsports Park in Phoenix for the Pacific Regional (Oct. 24-25).

Included in the doubleheader divisional events for the first time is a race at Summit Motorsports Park, while World Wide Technology Raceway in St. Louis will host a pair of double divisional events. The spring event on April 30-May 3 is for the West Central Division and the fall event (Oct. 1-4) is for the North Central Division.

Several double divisional events, including races in Gainesville, Brainerd, Norwalk, St. Louis, Dallas and the spring and fall Las Vegas races, will occur either the weekend before or after an NHRA national event as well to help with racer travel and scheduling efficiencies.

“We are excited to see the 2025 Lucas Oil Divisional Series schedule get released,” Lucas Oil Director of Partnership Marketing Brandon Bernstein said. “There is a lot of great racing on great dates and everyone here at Lucas Oil is thrilled for the start of 2025 season.”

The Laris Motorsports Insurance Cajun NHRA SPORTSnationals, which returned to the Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series schedule for the first time in nearly a decade last year, heads back to No Problem Raceway in Belle Rose, La. on March 14-16, offering a unique atmosphere and stellar racing that has made the event so popular.

The JEGS SPORTSnationals, which has been a longtime staple on the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series circuit, will again take place at National Trail Raceway on July 9-10 as part of the huge JEGS SPEEDWeek event. The SPORTSnationals features an incredible variety of high-level racing in eight different categories, making it one of the marquee events of the sportsman season, and following the SPORTSnationals the divisional and regional race takes place on July 11-12.

The 21 regional events during the 2025 Lucas Oil Drag Racing will showcase the exciting racing in the Top Alcohol Dragster and Top Alcohol Funny Car classes, giving fans a chance to experience cars running in excess of 250 mph at tracks across the country.

Like previous years, NHRA will stream several Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series divisional races on either NHRA.tv or the NHRA YouTube page for free during the 2025 campaign, including action from all seven NHRA divisions. A full broadcast schedule will be released in the coming weeks.

“We are looking forward to another fantastic season of racing in the Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, and we couldn’t be more appreciative of the tremendous support Lucas Oil and the Lucas family have provided for so many years,” NHRA President Glen Cromwell said. “They’ve played an instrumental role in the success of our sportsman series, which continues to thrive at NHRA Member Tracks across the country. The Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series features incredible racing from some of the best drivers in the world and we’re excited about what the 2025 season has in store.”