SPOKANE, Wash. — The Northwest Super Late Model Series is heading into their 11th season of competition next year, with a schedule that will include 10 races at seven different venues throughout the Pacific Northwest.
The series will return to five tracks from this year’s schedule, with two new facilities added to the schedule. Return visits include two events at Tri-City Raceway at the Red Mountain Event Center, two at the Wenatchee Valley Super-Oval, and two at Hermiston Raceway in Oregon.
Single races will include trips to Idaho at Findlay Stadium Stateline Speedway and Meridian Speedway. The series will head to the Mission Valley Super-Oval in Montana and the Motorplex at the Mill for the first time in series history. A minimum of three events will pay $10,000 to win.
A Breakdown Of The ScheduleÂ
The series will dive into its 11th season of action at Tri-City Raceway at RMEC with the 55th Annual Apple Cup 125 on April 7. It will be the third consecutive appearance at the tricky triangular half-mile, to open the season for the series.
The Ninth Annual Leonard Evans Memorial 150, at the Wenatchee Valley Super-Oval, will take place on April 27. The event has been on the series schedule since the inaugural season in 2014, when it was known as the Apple Blossom 125. Next on the schedule is a return to Findlay Stadium Stateline Speedway for the SLS 150 on May 18. It is the fourth consecutive season the NWSLMS has scheduled this event at the Post Falls, Idaho quarter-mile oval.Â
The series will then head to Emmett, Idaho and to the new Motorplex at the Mill, a one-third-mile NASCAR sanctioned paved oval. The track, located at the old Boise Cascade Lumber Mill, made its’ circle track racing debut in October, with a late model race that found Jeff Hillock in victory lane.
The NWSLMS will visit the new facility on June 15, for the $10,000-to-win Blue Valor 150. The first half of the season schedule will wrap up at Hermiston Raceway on June 29, for the first of two scheduled events at the facility. The Hermiston 125 will take place on June 29 at the three-eighths-mile oval and will be the series 12th visit to the track.
The second half of the season will kick off at a new facility to the series, but at a prestigious event that was sanctioned by the series in 2018. The Montana 200 will take place at the Mission Valley Super-Oval on July 13 and will feature a $10,000 winner’s purse. The Montana 200 dated back to 1991, at the now defunct Montana Raceway Park, where Lance Wade grabbed the inaugural edition. Shelby Thompson grabbed the win in the 2023 unsanctioned edition.
Round No. 7 will find the series returning to Meridian Speedway for the second year in a row, for the $10,000-to-win Idaho 208 with the August date to be finalized shortly. 32 Super Late Models made the trip to Southern Idaho this year, with Haeden Plybon scoring the rich win. The popular quarter-mile oval, known as the “Concrete Jungle,” will host the Idaho 208 for the 10th time.
On Sunday, September 1, the series will return to Hermiston Raceway for the Labor Day Spectacular 125. The annual event dates back to 2019 for the series, with Trevor Cristiani grabbing the inaugural win. Plybon was this year’s winner.
The longest running annual event for the series is up next, with the 11th Annual Neal Newberry 125 at the Wenatchee Valley Super-Oval. The event has been on the schedule since the inaugural 2014 season and was not a victim of Covid-19 in 2020. September 14 will see the NWSLMS return to the quarter-mile oval where Evan Goetz scored the win in 2023.
The season finale will be at Tri-City Raceway at RMEC on October 6, for the third consecutive season. The 37th Annual Fall Classic 125 will pay $10,000 to the winner and has traditionally boasted the largest car count of the season for the series. This year found a record-breaking 38 Super Late Models in attendance, with Evan Goetz grabbing his second consecutive victory in the Jefferson Racing, Phase II Port City Super Late Model.