The newly-renamed Speed Promotions Racing, the creators responsible for the Street Outlaws reality television franchise and the popular No Prep Kings events series on Monday revealed additional details about its upcoming season of live events. The new group includes leadership from the Pilgrim Media Group along with UFC CEO Dana White and noted UFC investors Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta.

The previously released Speed Promotions Racing schedule features 12 events in all, including three stops in Canada, a long-awaited debut in southern California, and a return to many familiar venues the series has visited over its seven seasons. 

The Outlaw 32 points championship, as it’s being referenced, includes stops at Famoso Drag Strip in California, Virginia Motorsports Park, National Trail Raceway in Ohio, New England Dragway, Qlispe Raceway Park in Washington state, US 131 Motorsports Park in Michigan, and Maple Grove Raceway in Pennsylvania. These seven points-paying events will include a $40,000 winner’s purse in an all-run format and will be streamed live on YouTube, and according to information shared by some of the key figures in the series, will require steel roof and quarters but otherwise a true run-what-you-brung format with no weight or engine restrictions.

The series will include $100,000-to-win small-tire races at Beech Bend Raceway Park in Kentucky, June 20-21, and at GALOT Motorsports Park in North Carolina, October 21-November 1, and The Outlaws vs The World events at Toronto Motorsports Park, Rad Torque Raceway (Edmonton, Alberta), and Mission Raceway Park in July.

The series it anticipated to feature Ryan Martin, Shawn “Murder Nova” Ellington, Kye Kelley, “Daddy Dave” Comstock, Jeff Lutz, Scott Taylor, and “Disco Dean” Karns as regulars, with familiar names including Joe “Dominator” Woods, Nate Sayler, Jerry Bird, Brad Eglian, Kayla Morton, James “Doc” Love, Kyle Canion, newcomer Chevy Reeves in the former Jerry Johnston-owned Chevelle, Tim Brown, Chuck “55” Parker, Randy Williams, Dave Adkins, Jimmy Taylor, Paige Coughlin, Clay Cole, Eric Kvilhaug, and Bobby Ducote all sharing plans to compete at a limited number of events.

Event emcee Chris “BoostedGT” Hamilton masterminded the six-figure-payday small-tire races, which will be run on 28×10.5 tires and capped at 64 cars with a $500 buy-in on a no-prep surface in Kentucky and full prep at GALOT.

Additionally, the up-and-coming Lil Gangstas 5.30 index small-tire class will be held twice on each race weekend, giving local racers a chance to compete for some cash in front of a big crowd.

“The plan here has changed dramatically,” Ellington and Martin explained in the hour-plus-long video. “We want this deal to succeed, and we don’t want to race without [everyone]. All the rumors that you hear about how they’re only giving four people money to show up, that was honestly true.”

“The concept of this year was supposed to be us four racers and we do this fight card-style event where we’d grudge race people. These were guys from UFC that were putting this deal together. And we saw that and thought we could probably make this work, but we just couldn’t get excited about it. Shawn, Ryan, Kye, and Dean, don’t ask us why, but that’s the four that they were going to put on their backs to try to carry this series. We heard them out, we listened, and we asked where everyone else was going to come in. And it was just going to be a couple of drivers trickling in here and a couple there. We got together and talked, and while it was cool to say they picked me, it just wasn’t a good idea — we didn’t get that warm and fuzzy feeling about it.” 

“Our fans are the ones who keep this going, and we wouldn’t be here without them, and so for us to lie to our fans and tell them that it’s going to be the most awesome season we’ve ever had, it wasn’t going to work. It just wasn’t a great idea, and we couldn’t promote it because we weren’t excited about it. We thought if this was how it was going to go, we weren’t sure if we wanted to be a part of it. Do we ride this sinking ship all the way to the bottom, do we get greedy and get one more year of pay and just do it, or do we sacrifice a little bit for ourselves? We could have just done it. But it wasn’t right to do that to the people we say we do this for — the fans.

But this was also about all the other racers who make this happen. We couldn’t give people a good product with four of us. And there isn’t one person we go race with that we don’t want to go race with. The promoters didn’t want to just cut people’s money, there just wasn’t budget until we can get back on TV. But if what we’re doing this year is terrible, if our hearts weren’t in this, then it was never going to work … it was going to be all for nothing. And so we took a chance. So we gave them an ultimatum, we told them we don’t like where this is going, we can’t get excited about something we don’t think is going to work. They asked us, and we said we first wanted to start working on getting some of the guys back. We want everybody to come race with us. We called everybody and we asked what it would take for them to come race with us. So we’re doing the field as all-run, we’re doing away with the race-your-way-in, and we’ve shortened the points championship to seven races. We’re going to do a fight card-style race on Friday nights that will become an eight-car, $10,000-to-win shootout.”

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