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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
Changes from last season are colored
in RED
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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