The 54th annual DIRTcar Nationals roll alongside at Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, and the newly unleashed Wednesday night time when the World of Outlaws begins a four-night run on the half-mile observe.
Because the World of Outlaws opens its forty eighth season, Bell continues his first season again on filth since 2022, when his NASCAR Cup Sequence crew — Joe Gibbs Racing — contractually prohibited their drivers from such outdoors work.
Bell first returned to dirt-tracking final month in his native Oklahoma, on the Tulsa Shootout and the Chili Bowl Nationals. He’s scheduled to run in WoO’s season opener Wednesday night time, and maybe once more Thursday night time.
Bell will drive the No. 69 entry owned by Dash Automobile Corridor of Famer Don Kreitz. Bell’s final laps in Barberville got here in 2019, when he posted three straight top-five finishes, together with a runner-up.
The $12,000 winner’s share of the purse is goosed to $20,000 for Saturday night time’s remaining WoO race on the banked oval dubbed “The World’s Quickest Half Mile.”
Danny Gravel, Donny Schatz amongst Christopher Bell’s WoO competitors in Barberville
Bell may have loads of competitors, together with defending WoO Dash Automobile champ Danny Gravel. He has 5 WoO wins at Volusia, and in his final 30 begins, he’s recorded 20 top-five finishes. Final 12 months, he gained the four-night factors battle and picked up the coveted Huge Gator trophy that goes together with it.
Dash Automobile legend Donny Schatz additionally returns. The ten-time collection champ has 24 Volusia wins, 15 of these within the World of Outlaws. His Volusia win in final spring’s Bike Week Jamboree was his five hundredth profession Dash Automobile victory.
Extra info: VolusiaSpeedwayPark.com, and WorldOfOutlaws.com.
Saturday’s non-wing outlaw micro dash automotive characteristic race within the Tulsa Shootout noticed Christopher Bell beat Kyle Larson by a tenth of a sec. Joe Gibbs Racing simply authorised filth racing for its drivers this 12 months and Bell made essentially the most of his return.
New Smyrna Speedway’s ‘World Sequence’ hits the excessive banks Friday
New Smyrna Speedway provides to the native noise Friday, opening night time of its annual World Sequence of Asphalt Inventory Automobile Racing.
The 9 straight nights of racing will characteristic 13 completely different divisions of automobiles, together with NASCAR’s Whelen Modified Tour and the ASA Stars Nationwide Tour, each of which start their 2025 season on the high-banked, half-mile observe in Samsula.
Extra data: NewSmyrnaSpeedway.org.
