The legendary Cedar Lake Speedway, located in New Richmond, Wisconsin has unveiled its 2025 event schedule that features some great enhancements from 2024 including the annual USA Nationals now a $100,000 to-win event!
The 69th season at the Western Wisconsin speedway will kick off with an open practice on Friday, April 4th and the first race of the season will take place the following night, Saturday, April 5th featuring Late Models, Modifieds, Pro Stocks, Midwest Modifieds, USRA Late Models and UMSS Traditional Sprint Cars.
The following weekend, competitors will be able to turn laps at the second open practice session of the season on Friday, April 11th with the second race of the year to be held on Saturday, April 12th featuring the same six classes.
The first multi day event of 2025 will be on the schedule with the Legendary Opener weekend taking place on April 17th (practice), and then racing action on both Friday and Saturday, April 18th and 19th. This huge event features a whopping 10 classes of cars racing complete programs each night. Pure Stocks, Street Stocks, Hornets, USRA Late Models, UMSS Traditional Sprint Cars, Late Models, Modifieds, Pro Stocks, Midwest Modifieds and UMSS Winged Sprint Cars will all make their way around the high banks of Cedar Lake Speedway, mark your calendars.
Another open practice is scheduled for Thursday, April 25th with another full race program set for Saturday, April 26th featuring Late Models, Modifieds, Pro Stocks, Midwest Modifieds, USRA Late Models and UMSS Traditional Sprint Cars.
The annual Spring Open Wheel Spectacular is set for Saturday, May 3rd. Open wheel fans shouldn’t miss this one as its all open wheel cars featuring UMSS Winged Sprints, UMSS Traditional Sprints, Batwing Outlaw Mini-Mods, Midwest Modifieds, Modifieds, and Vintage Cars.
The very popular School Bus Special is back in 2025, scheduled for Saturday, May 10th featuring one of the most fun nights of the year in addition to racing action by Midwest Modifieds and Pro Stocks.
Saturday, May 17th will feature a full race program of Late Models, Modifieds, Pro Stocks, Midwest Modifieds, USRA Late Models and UMSS Winged Sprint Cars. The 17th will also serve as the rain date for the School Bus Special.
Saturday, May 24th is the annual Pack the Track night, featuring FREE grandstand admission to all and featuring racing action for Micro Sprints, Street Stocks, USRA Late Models, UMSS Traditional Sprint Cars, and Pro Stocks. Make sure you attend this night to honor those in our Cedar Lake Racing family now watching over us each race night.
Saturday, May 31st will feature a full race program highlighting Late Models, Modifieds, Pro Stocks, UMSS Traditional Sprint Cars, USRA Late Models, and Midwest Modifieds in action.
June 7th will be a great day to bring the family as it’s Kids Night. All Kids 16 and under will be admitted free and we give away treats and a ton of bikes! Racing on Kids Night will be Modifieds, Pro Stocks, Midwest Modifieds, Street Stocks, and UMSS Traditional Sprint Cars.
The Annual Masters will again feature three mega nights of racing on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, June 12th, 13th, and 14th. CLS Super Late Models and USMTS Modifieds will race for $3,000 on Thursday, $5,000 on Friday and a huge $12,000 a piece on Saturday. This is $40,000 of prize money for the winners and nearly $200,000 in total purse over three nights. Come out and camp for the weekend and enjoy awesome racing. USRA Late Models will be in action all three nights as well.
Saturday, June 21st will bring a complete race program of Modifieds, Pro Stocks, Midwest Modifieds, USRA Late Models, and UMSS Traditional Sprint Cars.
The Annual World of Outlaw Sprint Car Showdown will invade Cedar Lake for their traditional two-night event on Friday, June 27th and Saturday, June 28th. UMSS Traditional Sprints will join the big dogs on Friday while the UMSS Winged Sprints will join the party on Saturday. CLS will also celebrate the 4th of July this weekend with CLS’s legendary HUGE fireworks show on Saturday night, June 28th!
For the sixth consecutive year, July will once again be the ‘Month of Money’. However, 2025 presents some exciting changes as SIX classes of cars will race for huge money. After taking the 4th of July weekend away from racing, July 12th will present $2,500 to-win for both Modifieds and Midwest Modifieds. Then, July 19th will bring another $2,500 to win for USRA Late Models and for the first time ever, the Mahder Memorial at Cedar Lake Speedway bringing $5,555 to-win and $555 to-start for CLS Late Models. Month of Money will close out on July 26th with another $2,500 to-win for both Street Stocks and Pro Stocks!
Thursday, July 31st through Saturday, August 2nd will feature the biggest weekend of the season as the Annual USA Nationals will pay a whopping $100,000 to the winner for the first time ever. There are only two other events in the entire country that pay this kind of money. You will want to be there as all of the country’s best Late Models will be at the speedway trying to claim the huge six-digit check. CLS Super Late Models will race compete programs on all three nights as well.
August 9th is a break from racing while August 16th presents a complete race program including Late Models, Modifieds, Pro Stocks, Midwest Modifieds, UMSS Traditional Sprint Cars, and USRA Late Models.
We will close out August with Fan Appreciation Day and Season Championship on the 23rd for all six of our regular classes. Fans will be thanked with free T-shirts to the first 1,000 guests as well as Free corn on the cob for all guests.
Labor Day weekend is a break from racing before we are back at it with a new 2-day event on Friday, September 5th and Saturday, September 6th. 2025 marks the 25th anniversary of the Jerry Richert Memorial and we are going to highlight the milestone with our first ever 2-day show for the memorial. IRA Outlaw Sprint Cars will race complete shows each night while both the UMSS Traditional Sprint Cars and UMSS Winged Sprint Cars will join them both Friday and Saturday nights. Come out and camp for only $10 per night and make a great fall weekend out of the event.
The Annual Legendary 100 is the final multi day event of the season, being held on September 10th (practice) then the racing packed format with EIGHT CLASSES of cars in action all three nights of the event, held on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, September 11th, 12th, and 13th. Preliminary events will be held for all eight divisions on Thursday and Friday with championship features on Saturday night. Late Models, Modifieds, Pro Stocks, Midwest Modifieds, USRA Late Models, Hornets, Street Stocks and Pure Stocks will all be in action over the huge weekend.
After the Legendary 100 weekend, September 20th will bring back for the 2nd year in a row a huge Monster Truck show as the Nitro Tour will again put on a great evening of entertainment.
The annual UMSS Arrive and Drive (test and tune) and fall fun day with a full race program for UMSS Traditional Sprint Cars, UMSS Winged Sprint Cars, Vintage Cars, Pro Stocks, Midwest Modifieds, and Street Stocks.
For start times, ticket prices and other information, please visit CedarLakeSpeedway.com or any of Cedar Lake’s social media platforms.
We hope to see you at Cedar Lake in 2025.