AUBURN, Calif. — The Northern Auto Racing Club has released a compelling 29-race 410 sprint car schedule for the 2025 season that is loaded with special events and prize money.
The traveling west coast series, which crowns a King of the West sprint car champion, will invade 16 different dirt oval tracks in California, Oregon and Washington, beginning with a March 8 season opener at the Stockton Dirt Track. Overall, the 66th annual NARC campaign will award more than $850,000 in prize money and awards, plus a championship point fund and product awards.
The centerpiece of the season takes place in June with the Fastest Five Days in Motorsports, which will invade Southern Oregon Speedway, the Douglas County Dirtrack, Cottage Grove Speedway, Willamette Speedway and Grays Harbor Raceway on consecutive nights beginning on June 11. The “Road to the Dirt Cup” continues the following weekend with the June 19-21st Jim Raper Super Dirt Cup at Skagit Speedway. The winner of that Saturday finale will earn a stout $62,000 payday.
Another energizing highlight on the calendar is the return of Calistoga Speedway and the ever-popular Louis Vermeil Classic on August 30-31. The historic half-mile oval, located in the heart of Napa Valley’s wine-country, has been dormant since 2019 due to political log jam on a sale of the facility. HMC Promotions is currently collaborating with local contractors to renovate the facility before racing action returns.
The month of April features the first of five nights of NARC racing at Ocean Speedway in Watsonville, Calif., starting with the Spring Fling on Friday, April 4th, followed by a return trip to the Stockton Dirt Track for the Asparagus Cup in Stockton (April 5). The following Saturday (April 12) Silver Dollar Speedway in Chico will provide the stage for the $10,000 to win Mini-Gold Cup. Chico also showcases the NARC sprint cars on June 7 for the David Tarter Memorial. The Tulare Thunderbowl Raceway wraps up the month with the April 26 Chris & Brian Faria Memorial on their one-third mile track.
Antioch Speedway hosts the first of two events on May 10, which leads into an action-packed Ocean Speedway/Thunderbowl Raceway doubleheader weekend on May 16-17. The Tulare show is the lucrative Morrie Williams Memorial Twin-20 show, an event that was relocated from Kings Speedway in Hanford. Kings Speedway is still searching for a track promoter and is not on the 2025 schedule.
Placerville Speedway is on the schedule twice in 2025, beginning with the popular Dave Bradway Jr. Memorial on May 31. The series returns to the quarter-mile bullring on September 6th between the High Limit and World of Outlaw swings into the Golden State.
Four July events sidestep the summer heat in California with premium coastal events within 15-miles of the Pacific Ocean. The “cooler weather” tour kicks off with the July 12th $5,200 to win David Lindt Memorial at Petaluma Speedway.
The popular Howard Kaeding Classic at Ocean Speedway will now be a two-day 410 show on July 18-19. Among Saturday’s highlights is the HK Luncheon, which raises money for the NARC Benevolent Fund, and a $6900 to win, $1000+ to start feature event.
The NARC sprint cars will make their only appearance of the season at the revitalized Santa Maria Speedway on July 26.
New to the schedule will be the return of the Johnny Key Classic as a 410-sprint car event on the NARC schedule. The 65th annual event, which has been a 360 race for the past couple of decades, takes place on August 2nd at Ocean Speedway.
The season winds down in the Fall with Open Wheel Octoberfest at Antioch Speedway on Oct. 11 and the Oct. 25 October Classic at Kevin Harvick’s Kern Raceway.
Once again, the Stockton Dirt Track will be the home of the NARC 410 Sprint Car Series season finale, featuring the 42nd annual Tribute to Gary Patterson on November 1st.
The posh Brookside Country Club in Stockton will host the NARC Champions Celebration the following day.
