Adam Dorey: Rocky Mountain Race Week’s 2025 Plan is Nuts
Not long ago, Matthew Frost and I unveiled the plans for the 2025 Rocky Mountain Race Week franchise to celebrate its tenth year of dragging and driving and it’s going to be a huge change.
Since 2020, Rocky Mountain Race Week (1.0) and RaceWeek (2.0) have been a staple of the scene, selling out both events every year since. For 2025 the races will merge for the first time ever, but only technically for one day. Let me explain…
Starting in 2015, Rocky Mountain Race Week was a single event out of the RMRW franchise until 2020, when RaceWeek was born. Rocky Mountain Race Week has been in the June/July timeframe and was a seven-day event with drive days, typically in the Rocky Mountains and utilizing Kearney Raceway Park, SRCA in Great Bend, KS, Pueblo Motorsports Park, and the venerable Bandimere Speedway in Morrison, CO. RaceWeek was in September and only five days without dedicated drive days, but with a little more variety and movement through the area tapping many different tracks such as Tulsa Raceway Park, Thunder Valley Raceway Park, OKC, OK, Kearney Raceway Park, Ozark Mountain Raceway, Mid America Dragway, Geuda Springs, KS, Heartland Park, Topeka, KS, Texas Motorplex, Ennis, TX and others. For 2024 we’ll be partying in Texas and Louisiana! Both events were treated separately. Unfortunately, if you look at the list of tracks listed above, there are a large number that are closed or on an indefinite hiatus for repairs, especially in the Rocky Mountain Race Week area.
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For 2025, Rocky Mountain Race Week and RaceWeek will happen in parellel in June. Rocky Mountain Race Week will compete 8am-3pm, and RaceWeek will compete at the same track from 3pm-11pm while the Rocky Mountain Race Week drivers will be on the route to the next track! Yes, we’ll be running two drag-and-drives on the SAME DAY! Each event will have the same classes and the same payouts but those averages will be kept separate with separate winners.
For day five we’ll bring everyone together and double the class-size shootout! The FAF (Fast as #@%@) 8 will grow to 16 cars. The BMF (Bad Mutha #@$*) 8 will grow to 16 cars and the Quick 16 will grow to 32 cars giving the quickest 64 cars three classes to duke it out on a 0.400 pro tree, no time. Just a win light, no slips!
There will also be a combined Rowdy Radial shootout and the Exhibition Shootout for racers who withdrew earlier in the week but can return. For everyone else we will offer a time-only/grudge class for that final day, or if you’re feeling confident from your showing in one of the index races, a HUGE bracket race. With the possibility of a 600-car field this is one you don’t want to miss, and with $5000 to winthe bracket race for 2025, you might want to give it a shot! All of the other payouts for the shootout will be doubled as well, with the FAF16 winner taking home $15,000, BMF16 winner taking home $5000, the Quick16 winner taking home $3000, and Rowdy Radial and Exhibition winner taking $2000 each.
If you’ve been wanting to get into a Rocky Mountain Race Week or RaceWeek, 2025 will be your best chance in years. The RMRW franchise has always used legacy status entries for signup; if you competed in last year’s event you get a 24-hour head start on registration for this year’s event — the same system will apply for 2025. Double entries will be limited to a few hard-core Rocky Mountain Race Week/RaceWeek competitors, and the racers that compete in both typically will have to choose one to compete in for 2025, which should open up a few of those legacy spots to hopefuls to get on one or the other.
Plenty more about the 2025 event will be coming out over the next few months on Rocky Mountain Race Week social media sites and website.
