The World of Outlaws Real American Beer Late Model Series presented by DIRTVision will cover plenty of ground next month with a schedule stretching from southwest Wisconsin to Pennsylvania.

The May calendar includes seven nights of racing across four tracks, and plenty of massive paydays will be up for grabs along the way.

Here’s a look at what’s ahead:

Mississippi Thunder Speedway | Dairyland Showdown (May 1-3): The annual trip to the banks of the Mississippi River has quickly become one of the biggest events on the springtime agenda, and that will reign true even more this year.

The Saturday portion of the event will pay a record $75,000 to the winner in 2025, making it the second-largest top prize on the schedule behind the $100,000-to-win USA Nationals at Cedar Lake Speedway in August.

The top three drivers in the 2025 standings – Bobby Pierce, Ryan Gustin and Nick Hoffman – are also the only three full-timers with a World of Outlaws win at Mississippi Thunder to their credit. Pierce took the checkers in 2022, while Gustin and Hoffman split the victories last season.

The Dairyland Showdown will be a home game for a pair of Outlaws in Dustin Sorensen and Jake Timm, who both grew up racing at Mississippi Thunder every Friday night. It’s also one of the closest tracks to Brent Larson’s Lake Elmo, MN home, and the site of his first podium finish with the World of Outlaws in 2021.

Both nights of the event will award points toward the Coltman Farms Racing Cup miniseries championship as well.

VIDEO RECAP (May 4, 2024):

Raceway 7 | Great Lake Showdown (May 15): For the second-straight season, the World of Outlaws will head to Conneaut, OH for a Thursday night stop at Raceway 7.

The track has been a regular stop on Late Model schedules for decades, and the list of winners is a who’s who of legends from the region and beyond. Raceway 7’s Victory Lane has welcomed names like Chub Frank, Donnie Moran, Rick Eckert, and Series director Steve Francis, who won an Xtreme DIRTcar Series event in 2003.

More recently, Chris Madden led all 40 laps of the first World of Outlaws Feature at the track on his way to the win. Several current Outlaws are no stranger to Raceway 7 success, as Kyle Bronson and Tim McCreadie are both former Late Model winners at the track and neither has finished worse than fourth in three starts each.

VIDEO RECAP (May 16, 2024):

Marion Center Raceway | Connor Bobik Memorial (May 16-17): After finishing up at Raceway 7, teams will make the 2.5-hour tow to Marion Center Raceway for the Connor Bobik Memorial.

Now in its fourth season on the World of Outlaws schedule, the race has expanded to a two-night show for the first time – both awarding points toward the Coltman Farms Racing Cup – and the amount of racing isn’t the only thing that has increased. Saturday’s finale will culminate with a $30,000-to-win Feature, double the mark from a year ago.

The Connor Bobik Memorial has been an annual tradition in western Pennsylvania since the inaugural running at Dog Hollow Speedway in 2011. Since then, the event has also been held at Hidden Valley Speedway and Thunder Mountain Speedway before making its way to Marion Center and appearing on the World of Outlaws calendar for the first time in 2022. Dennis Erb Jr. collected the first trophy from Marion Center on his way to the championship that year, while Gustin and Madden followed him up in 2023 and 2024, respectively.

VIDEO RECAP (May 18, 2024):

Bedford Speedway | Billy Winn Classic (May 18): The weekend closes with the first of two Sunday night events in 2025 at Bedford Speedway in southern Pennsylvania.

The track’s 5/8-mile size makes it one of the largest and fastest facilities in the sport. Tyler Bare established the track record in local competition in 2018 with an 18.490-second lap, carrying an average speed of more than 121 miles per hour.

The World of Outlaws made three trips to Bedford in the late 2000s, with Frank, Francis and Tim Fuller each picking up wins. The Series returned last summer following a 15-year hiatus, and Pierce crossed the line first for his second of six wins in a row last summer.

The rest of the field will be aiming to join Pierce as a World of Outlaws winner at Bedford, but several of them ran well at the track before. Max Blair is a former winner of the Keystone Cup – the marquee Late Model event held at the track every fall – while Hoffman wheeled a DIRTcar UMP Modified to Victory Lane in 2021.

VIDEO RECAP (July 11, 2024):

If you can’t make it to the track, stream every lap in May and all season long live on DIRTVision.