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Nitrocross adds Miami event to 2024-25 schedule
Nitrocross has revised its 2024-25 season calendar with the addition of an event in Miami, Fla., to the schedule.
The event on January 11-12, 2025 will take place at Biscayne Bay and will replace Glen Helen Raceway in California (pictured above), a venue which has been hampered by severe winds at most of the series’ previous visits there.
“I loved Glen Helen but we’ve had some really tough weather out there and some elements and (we’re) just trying to elevate this series to the next level,” said series founder Travis Pastrana.
Explaining the calendar choices, Nitrocross general manager Chip Pankow added: “One of the things we really try to do in Nitrocross is have a lot of different types of tracks. We have some tracks that are all dirt, huge jumps, very flowy tracks. We’ve done, quite famously, ice tracks, and things in between.”
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Nitrocross’ visit to Miami won’t be the first time it has gone to Florida. The 2021 season finale took place at the FIRM near Jacksonville, while Global Rallycross -- one of two series to precede Nitrocross -- raced at Daytona International Speedway from 2014-16, and on the streets of Fort Lauderdale in 2015 (pictured above) in the only rallycross event to be held in southern Florida so far.
Miami isn’t the only change to next season’s schedule, with the Calgary stop now officially becoming a non-championship "invitational" event. The previous two trips north of the border for ice races at the Calgary Stampede have been blighted by warm weather, rendering full championship events difficult to hold, so the series has now made a pre-emptive change to avoid a repeat.
The remaining dates on the schedule will stay on their originally announced dates, and will still be doubleheaders to make a 10-round championship. The 2024-25 season will kick off at Richmond Raceway on Sept. 7-8, before going onto Utah Motorsports Campus on October 4-5 and Firebird Raceway near Phoenix, Ariz., on Nov. 15-16.
The schedule will pick up in 2025 with the jaunt to Miami on Jan. 11-12, and the invitational event in Calgary on Jan. 31-Feb. 1. The season will conclude on Feb. 28-March 1 at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas.
Dominik Wilde
Dominik often jokes that he was born in the wrong country – a lover of NASCAR and IndyCar, he covered both in a past life as a junior at Autosport in the UK, but he’s spent most of his career to date covering the sliding and flying antics of the U.S.’ interpretation of rallycross. Rather fitting for a man that says he likes “seeing cars do what they’re not supposed to do”, previously worked for a car stunt show, and once even rolled a rally car with Travis Pastrana. He was also comprehensively beaten in a kart race by Sebastien Loeb once, but who hasn’t been?
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