CORDELE, Ga. — On-line entry is now open for tremendous late fashions and professional late fashions for the 2026 operating of SpeedFest January 23–24, 2026 at Cordele Motor Speedway.
The favored season-opening occasion is now only one month away and can as soon as once more showcase a number of the finest short-track rivals within the nation.
SpeedFest will characteristic the ASA Southern Tremendous Collection offered by Sunoco for tremendous late modelss, together with the Southern Professional Collection Professional Late Fashions. The weekend racing program will even embrace competitors from INEX Legends and Bandoleros, making for a full four-division present.
On-track exercise begins with an non-compulsory open take a look at day on Thursday, January 22, operating from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. Observe and qualifying for all 4 divisions will happen on Friday, January 23, with characteristic racing set for Saturday afternoon, January 24, starting at 1 p.m.
SpeedFest additionally serves as a part of Cordele Motor Speedway’s SuperFest schedule, a marquee lineup of occasions that builds all through the season and culminates with the distinguished World Crown 300 in October.
Extensively thought to be the unofficial kickoff to the racing season, SpeedFest dates again to 2005, when the occasion debuted at USA Worldwide Speedway and was held there for its first 4 years.
The occasion moved to Lanier Speedway in 2009, the place it ran for 3 seasons, earlier than discovering a everlasting house at Cordele Motor Speedway in 2012, the place it has been contested yearly ever since. The 2026 version will mark the twenty first operating of SpeedFest.
SpeedFest winners have included a number of the sport’s greatest names, corresponding to Kyle Busch, Chase Elliott, Harrison Burton, Chandler Smith, and Corey Heim. In recent times, Bubba Pollard of Senoia, Georgia has dominated the occasion, capturing victories in every of the final 4 SpeedFest races at Cordele.
The occasion began together with the Professional Late Mannequin class in 2009 after it moved to Lanier. That winner’s checklist can be spectacular with the likes of Chase Elliott, John Hunter Nemecheck, Casey Roderick, Bubba Pollard, Stephen Nasse, Augie Grill, and others claiming wins.
