Jason Miller of the Xtreme Dragbike Association sent along the following updates on the 2025 season.
Dear XDA Racers & Fans,
We are excited to kick-off the 2025 XDA Season with the Platinum General Services Spring Nationals & Awards Ceremony on April 25-27, 2025 at Maryland International Raceway!
Every Fall we ask for racer’s input for the next season, and we receive many emails from racers with constructive input on how to make the XDA program for the following year. We truly appreciate these suggestions, and we discuss them at length with our XDA staff. We also talk them over with our partnered tracks to see what makes sense to implement for the next season. We may not be able to implement everything that is suggested for either financial, logistics, or staffing reasons, but we strive to implement what we can to improve the program that makes sense for Racers, Tracks and the XDA.
Please be sure to thank the XDA and Track staff at these events. XDA has an enormous number of racers and our events last much longer in duration than most other car or bike events. The staff work very hard and please don’t take efforts for granted. The staff really appreciate your appreciation during these events, and they have the same passion for the XDA as you do.
As always, we need to balance our track time between Pros, Sportsman, and Grudge. We need all 3 groups for the XDA to be successful, and no one group is any more important than the other. So all changes to the program has this mind and we ask racers to think of others too.
2025 XDA Season Changes Below:
Thursday Opening
• We will still allow racers to stack in line starting Wednesday night. However, we cannot allow anyone to come into the pit area until the gates open on Thursday morning. There is too much set-up to do on Thursday morning, and we do not have the track properly staffed until Thursday morning. Everyone will need to wait in line until the gates are officially opened on Thursday morning. Sponsors & Vendors only are permitted to come around the line on Thursday morning to come through the gates at 10am when the gates open. All other racers must wait in line until 10:30am when the gates open for everyone else. Gates close on Thursdays at 9pm sharp.
Top Sportsman Eliminations
• Top Sportsman eliminations will still be run on Saturday, however we will now be running each round of Top Sportsman eliminations with the Bulls at: 2pm, 5pm, 7pm, 9pm, and 10:30pm. This change will allow T/S to have more time between rounds and run on fresh track prep. This will also prevent Top Sportsman and Bracket Bash from running back to back every round.
Sunday Pro Eliminations Schedule
• Pros will still start 1st round on Sundays at 11am, but we moved 2nd round of Pros to 2pm instead of 1pm so we aren’t running 2 rounds of Pros basically back to back. This will allow more time for Sportsman eliminations between 1st and 2nd round of Pro eliminations. Our goal is to try and have Pro and Sportsman classes on Sundays to all finish around the same time at 7pm (barring any weather delays).
Bike Numbers
• Everyone must have a 4 digit bike number to run at XDA. If you haven’t already chosen a 4 digit bike number, then you can go to the “XDA Racers” group ASAP on Facebook and select one in the thread titled “Registered Riders & Numbers”. Please see the rules at the top of that post regarding bike numbers. We strongly suggest you register your bike number before the first race of the season, or you could be stuck in a long line at the tower to register your bike number before you can tech in.
ATV Shootout
• The Team Skittles ATV Shootout will now be a XDA Championship points class and will be run at all 6 XDA events! The ATV Shootout will be last class on the Pro Run Order behind Super Stock.
Pro Xtreme
• The MaxxECU Pro Xtreme class will be run at all XDA events this season, except the WPGC Bike Fest on July 25-27, 2025 at MIR. This class is hitting a big growth spurt this year with entries exceeding 16 bikes at each event.
DMV Bulls & All Motor Bulls
• The Lock-In for DMV Bulls and All Motor Bulls is now the same $250 as the other Bulls Lock-Ins. DMV Bulls total entry remains at $350, but the All Motor Bulls Total Entry has been increased to $350 as well and the purse has gone up to $5,600 to win (based on a 16 bike field)
Grudge Tech Cards
• The Grudge Tech Card has been increased to $200 and includes Saturday & Sunday. We have raised the Grudge tech card price to help eliminate some of the Test & Tuners and keep it strictly for the real “Grudge Racers” on Saturdays. This will help us give more time to racers that plan to actually Grudge Race on Saturday Nights. We have seen a rise in Test & Tune type Grudge bikes on Saturdays at the XDA and that is not what Grudge was intended for. Track time is very valuable on Saturdays as we have Pros, Sportsman and the Bulls to run.
Tech Card & Adult Weekend Pass Prices
• Tech cards and Adult Weekend Admission Passes have increased $5 this year to help with rising payroll, consumable and operational expenses. We strive to keep costs as low as possible at the XDA, but from time to time there will be some increases needed to maintain the level of staffing and production that everyone expects at the XDA.
WPGC Bike Fest Main Event moves to Saturday Evening
• The WPGC Bike Fest is the biggest event on the XDA tour every year, and this year will be no different. We have had many bike clubs in the DMV area push us to move the Main Event from Sunday like it has been in the past to Saturday Evening moving forward. So, we have finally decided to make the move to a Saturday Evening Show with Bikini Contest, Bike Show, Sound Competition, DJs, Live Bands, and Drag Racing! This change to Saturday evening will allow the main event to be run during a cooler time frame in July as the sun drops and allow people more time to get to the event. Sunday at the WPGC Bike Fest will now be eliminations only for Pro and Sportsman classes like every other XDA event. The Saturday 1-Day admission for the WPGC Bike Fest will now be $35, but we are keeping the weekend admission pass still at $50 so it won’t cost our racers and fans any more to be at the WPGC Bike Fest than any other event.
Return to the ROCK
• We are very excited to return to the ROCK on June 27-29, 2025 for the 190Hookup.com Superbike Showdown! Dan VanHorn and Al Gennarelli have done an amazing job with not only redoing the track surface with unbelievable traction, but they have also upgraded so many things at the facility with restrooms, bleachers, concession stands, new roads, track entrance, tower suite, equipment and so much more! It was the right time to finally bring the XDA back to the ROCK after a decade long hiatus. Also, we have added a special Outlaw Bagger Shootout to this event featuring the baddest 7 second Heads-Up baggers in the country! We want to see a huge turnout at the ROCK for this “Homecoming” event so be sure to invite all your friends and let’s show up in Full Force and show the owners at the ROCK that XDA means business!
XDA Website
• Please visit www.XDAracing.com to view the 2025 XDA Rulebook, Contingency Program, Entry & Payouts, Records, Results, Points, Ticket Prices, Event Schedules, Class Line-Ups, Vendor Info, Track Info, Championship Info and more!
We look forward to seeing you all on April 25-27, 2025 at Maryland International Raceway for the Platinum General Services Spring Nationals & Awards Ceremony!
If you are interested in becoming an XDA sponsor, please email jason@mbpevents.com
For more information about the XDA, please visit www.XDAracing.com
2025 XDA Event Schedule
THURSDAY
Sponsors & Vendors Early Parking 10am
Event Parking 10:30am – 9pm
Gates Close 9pm
FRIDAY
Gates Open 8am
Racer Registration 8am – 9pm
Event Parking & Tech 8am – 11pm
Regular Prep Testing: $105 per bike 10am – 8pm
Pro Prep & Grudge Testing: $125 per bike 11am, 2pm, 5pm, 8pm
Gambler’s Race Time Run 12pm
Gambler’s Race Eliminations Begin 1pm
Pros: Bulls Shake / Q1: PST-RST-PX-4.60-SS-ATV 8pm
Gates Close 11pm
SATURDAY
Gates Open 8am
Racer Registration 8am – 7pm
Event Parking & Tech 8am – 11pm
Sportsman Q1: TS-PET-5.60-SET 9am – 10:30am
Sportsman Q2: TS-PET-5.60-SET-BB 10:30am – 12pm
Bracket Bash Eliminations Begin 12pm
Pros: Bulls Shake / Q2: PST-RST-PX-4.60-SS-ATV / TS E1 2pm
Bulls Chip Draw 4pm
Afterdark Underground Grudge Racing 4pm-11pm
Pros: Bulls E1 / TS E2 5pm
Pros: Bulls E2 / Q3: PST-RST-PX-4.60-SS-ATV / TS E3 7pm
Pros: Bulls E3 / TS E4 9pm
Pros: Bulls E4 / TS E5 10:30pm
Gates Close 11pm
SUNDAY
Gates Open 8am
Event Parking, Racer Registration, Tech 8am – 12pm
Church Service 8:30am
Sportsman Eliminations Begin: PET-5.60-SET 10am
Pros E1: PST-RST-PX-4.60-SS-ATV-Grudge 11am
Pros E2: PST-RST-PX-4.60-SS-ATV-Grudge 2pm
Pros E3: PST-RST-PX-4.60-SS-ATV-Grudge 4pm
Pros E4: 4.60-SS 5pm
Pros (Semis & Finals): PST-RST-PX-4.60-SS-ATV-Grudge 6pm
Pros (Finals): 4.60 7pm
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