It’s a short offseason in sprint car racing, with basically only December and January without any shows. When racing begins in Florida, there will be a few changes with some additional nights and Super Bowl Sunday off for the first time in many years.
It‘s a short offseason in sprint car racing, with basically only December and January without any shows. When racing begins in Florida, there will be a few changes with some additional nights and Super Bowl Sunday off for the first time in many years.
There will be 25 shows run in 17 nights of racing in the Sunshine State. As usual, many shows will be running at two different tracks with fans able to choose among winged, non-winged, 410, 360 sprints or midgets.
The Florida Sprint Car Speedweeks actually began on Jan. 22 with the pavement sprint cars of the Southern Sprint Car Shootout Series at 4-17 Southern Speedway in Punta Gorda.
The following weekend, the Top Gun Sprints (winged 360s) run three nights at East Bay Raceway Park Jan. 27-29. East Bay only has three more year left until it is dismantled and piled high with phosphate mining refuse.
Last year, the World of Outlaws made a one-night stop at the track in March due to pandemic cancellations elsewhere, but there was no such luck in getting the series back on the schedule at the third-mile track this year.
On Feb. 4-5, Pete Walton‘s United Sprint Car Series 360 winged machines tow to the southernmost dirt track in America, Hendry County Motorsports Park. The track is just west of the fishing town of Clewiston on the southern end of Lake Okeechobee. It is definitely in a unique location for sprint car racing.
The All Star Circuit of Champions kick off the season Feb. 4-5 at Georgia‘s Senoia Raceway before heading to Florida‘s Volusia Speedway Park for the DIRTcar Nationals, with the five night of sprint car racing moved up one day to stay away from running on Super Bowl Sunday.
The All Stars run their traditional two nights at Volusia on Feb. 8-9, with the World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series kicking off its season at the unique half-mile track Feb. 10-12.
While the outlaw sprint cars are ripping around Volusia, the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship will be competing Feb. 11-12 at the egg-shaped Bubba Raceway Park in Ocala.
After Super Bowl Sunday off, both East Bay and Volusia return to action. The All Stars have a two-night stand at East Bay Raceway Park for the third consecutive year on Feb. 14-15. The same two nights the newly created Xtreme Outlaw Sprint Car Series for non-winged sprint cars will debut at Volusia Speedway Park.
The Xtreme Outlaw Sprint Car Series and Xtreme Outlaw Midget Series were created by the World Racing Group, which operates the World of Outlaws. Volusia is a big, fast track for winged cars and I have never seen non-winged sprint cars race there. It should make an interesting two nights with the final night paying $10,000 to the winner.
Another night off on the 16th, precedes the three nights of the Ronald Laney King of the 360s at East Bay Raceway Park and the Winter Dirt Games for the USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car Series at Bubba Raceway Park on Feb. 17-19.
The fans have to choose again whether to go winged or non-winged. The tracks are close enough to divide your nights, too. Also, the Southern Sprint Car Shootout Series returns to 4-17 Southern Speedway on Feb. 19.
After all of that if you are still looking for more warm weather racing, the USCS sprint cars stop in the Florida panhandle at Southern Raceway in Milton for two nights
on Feb. 25-26.
It will be another busy February of racing in Florida for fans and teams looking to escape the cold 
in the north.