12/17/2024
Fulton Speedway
2025 Season Planning in Full Swing for Fulton Speedway Management; Highbank Holdup Weekend to open the season on April 25 and 26
Baldwinsville, NY (December 17, 2024) – Planning for the 2025 season is in full swing for Fulton Speedway management with scheduling and sponsorship programs at the top of the agenda. Officials are pleased to confirm that DIRTcar 358-Modifieds, DIRTcar Sportsman, Hobby Stocks and Novice Sportsman will continue as the weekly core classes.
The DIRTcar Modified class sponsor the past twelve years, Tracey Road, continues their support of Fulton’s headline class in 2025. A full season of DIRTcar 358-Modified races will anchor the 2025 schedule including the DIRTcar 358-Modified Series Highbank Holdup on Saturday, April 26 and the 38th Outlaw 200 on Saturday, October 4.
The health of the 358-Modified class at Fulton Speedway has parallelled and helped spur a 358-Modified renaissance on the DIRTcar circuit. Fulton's weekly modified field grew again in 2024, with an average weekly field of 33 cars. The 38th Neivel Precision Plumbing Outlaw 200 in October saw 70 DIRTcar 358-Modifieds line the pit area.
Fulton Speedway Modified regulars performed well in the two-tiered DIRTcar Championship chase in 2024. Lance Willix narrowly missed the DIRTcar Series Championship coming up in the runner-up spot with Dave Marcuccilli finishing just behind him in 3rd. Andrew Buff claimed DIRTcar 358-Modified Rookie of the Year honors while placing fifth in the overall series points. Willix, Billy Dunn and Buff, all Fulton Speedway regulars, swept the top three spots in the Hoosier Tire Weekly points in 2024.
DOT Foods, located at 200 Monarch Drive in Liverpool, NY, will return for its seventh season as the title sponsor for the popular DIRTcar Sportsman class. Cody Manitta captured the track championship in 2024 and will look to defend his championship in 2025.
Fulton Speedway will continue to be an important cog in the DIRTcar Sportsman series in 2025. A central regional series race will be on tap on July 26 with the DIRTcar Championship series visiting on August 20 during SummerFAST. Fulton Speedway regulars showed well in overall DIRTcar action in 2024. Emmett Waldron captured 4th in the overall DIRTcar Championship Series with Ryan Barrett (9th), Manitta (10th) and Savannah LaFlair (11th) placing in the money for the series. Zach Buff and Manitta placed 2nd and 4th respectively in the Hoosier Tire DIRTcar Weekly championship in 2024.
The Billy Whittaker Cars & Trux Hobby Stocks will continue as one of Fulton Speedway's weekly classes in 2025. Coming off an Outlaw Weekend where 29 entries lined the pits enthusiasm is high with several new teams expected to be pit side when the season opens in April. The 2025 rule book will be published on www.fultonspeedway.com shortly, with minimal changes from the 2024 edition.
E & V Energy has been the title sponsor of Fulton’s Novice Sportsman class since its inception in 2009. The class has successfully provided the pathway into Dirt racing for racers of all types, from aspiring youths to bucket-list adults and will continue that in 2025.
The Fulton and Brewerton Winter Warmer Race Party and DIRTcar Nationals viewing party will be the first formal Fulton Speedway event for 2025 - slated for Saturday, February 15 at Jammer's Sports Bar & Restaurant.
The annual Highbank Holdup Weekend, Friday and Saturday, April 25 and 26, will open the 2025 Fulton Speedway Season. Multiple classes will be on the card over the two nights including the Empire Super Sprints, Billy Whittaker Cars & Trux Hobby Stocks, Vintage Modifieds, AmeriCU Mod Lites, Dot Foods DIRTcar Sportsman, and the RL Cleaning 4-Cylinder Open Series, culminating Saturday with the DIRTcar 358-Modified Series Highbank Holdup. A season-opening Test and Tune will be held prior to the Highbank Holdup on a date still to be determined.
Save the dates of October 2-4 for the 39th annual Outlaw 200 Weekend.
Events and classes are being finalized as speedway officials fine-tune the 2025 schedule. An early February release is planned. Track sponsorships and advertising opportunities are available for the 2025 season. Call (315) 638-4056 or email Cory Reed at cory@fultonspeedway.com for more information.
Submitted By: Cory Reed