East Alabama Motor Speedway announced a new format for the National 100 this year.

The Super Late Models will race in two separate and complete features on Friday and Saturday night with an optional open practice on Thursday. The Friday night program begins with a Drivers Meeting at 6 PM and will feature hot laps, qualifying, 10-lap heat races, 12-lap B-Mains, and then conclude with a 40-lap feature that pays $10,000 to-win. The Saturday program will start with a Drivers Meeting at 11 AM. Super Late Model hot laps will take place following an intermission for trick or treating and track work. They will then qualify, have 10-lap heat races, 12-lap B-Mains, and conclude with a 60-lap feature that pays $25,000 to-win.

This is a significant change from last year. In 2025, the track raced three nights with a $5,000 to-win feature on Friday, a $10,000 to-win show on Saturday, and then the 100-lap race on Sunday for $30,000 to-win. The Sunday feature was made up of the top point earners from both the Friday and Saturday night portions.

Not only is the format changing for the National 100, but the track has also changed its racing surface. Earlier this month, the track announced that it was working with Evergreen Siteworks to create “a smooth, even surface from top to bottom of the track.”

Operations Manager Dalton Antley informed Todd Turner at DirtonDirt.com that Evergreen Siteworks conducted “geothermal testing and surveying with their big fancy drone. They came out and pulled points and showed us where the imperfections were. So we were able to grade down and get a perfect surface top to bottom.”

Additionally, they announced they were going to change the racing surface, “We’ll be updating the racing surface with a new material that will ultimately provide better racing overall! That is our one true goal — the ability to race top to bottom, a combination of speed and precision required.”

And while it looks like the gumbo that surfaces Modoc Speedway and Senoia, Antley said that is not what they are using, “I know everyone likes to throw around the gumbo word, but that’s not what we’re calling it. So just a clay material and as it gets worked in, I think it’s gonna be a little more red than everyone anticipated it being. It’s not gonna be a Modoc or Senoia or anything like that.”

He does expect the new clay to slow down the track, “It will slow things down a little bit, but at the same time, we’re hoping it puts on some much better racing throughout a long night and a long weekend, which we tend to have those out here.”

Furthermore, Antley hopes these changes will make the track “racier where guys can just enter or exit wherever they want and maybe move a line around throughout the night.”

A test session was conducted on the new racing surface and the track shared they saw positive results.

“We wanted to get some cars on track to ensure everything stayed nice and bonded. The positive results are a testament to how hard our track crew, along with our friends at Evergreen, worked on this project,” the track stated. “We’ve got a good notebook started on this surface, and we’re excited to get some more cars on it.”

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