WOODSTOCK, Ga. (Oct. 9) — Six season-opening Florida Speedweeks races and a stretch of late-summer big-purse events again anchor the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series in 2011 on a 42-race schedule released by the tour Saturday at Dixie Speedway.

The schedule, which is expected to include additional dates, includes visits to first-time series tracks Roaring Knob Motorsports Complex in Markleysburg, Pa., and Lone Star Speedway in Kilgore, Texas, which would host the first Lucas Oil event in Texas.

The foundation of the slate will be familiar to fans of the series in recent years with Lucas Oil (Mo.) Speedway's Show-Me 100, Florence (Ky.) Speedway's North-South 100, Batesville (Ark.) Motor Speedway's Topless 100, West Virginia Motor Speedway's Hillbilly 100 and Brownstown (Ind.) Speedway's Jackson 100 among long-running events that are part of the tour.

Among the schedule's $20,000-to-win events are the April 1-2 event at Lone Star, a July 8-9 event at Magnolia Motor Speedway in Columbus, Miss., and the season-ending Dixie Shootout on Oct. 7-8 at Dixie, which returns to a two-day format and doubles the winner's purse from 2010.

One new lucrative event on the schedule is a to-be-named race on May 20-21 at Batesville where the race winner will also receive a 2011 Chevrolet Camaro.

2011 Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series schedule

Date, track, location, winning purse
Feb. 7, East Bay Raceway Park, Gibsonton, Fla., $5,000
Feb. 8, East Bay Raceway Park, Gibsonton, Fla., $5,000
Feb. 9, East Bay Raceway Park, Gibsonton, Fla., $5,000
Feb. 10, East Bay Raceway Park, Gibsonton, Fla., $10,000
Feb. 11, East Bay Raceway Park, Gibsonton, Fla., $10,000
Feb. 12, East Bay Raceway Park, Gibsonton, Fla., $12,000
March 26, Brownstown (Ind.) Speedway, $10,000
April 1-2, Lone Star Speedway, Kilgore, Texas, $20,000
April 29, Bedford (Pa.) Speedway, $10,000
April 30, Roaring Knob Motorsports Complex, Markleysburg, Pa., $10,000
May 6-7, Paducah (Ky.) International Raceway, $20,000
May 13, 34 Raceway, West Burlington, Iowa, $10,000
May 14, La Salle (Ill.) Speedway, $10,000
May 20-21, Batesville (Ark.) Motor Speedway, $20,000
May 27-28, Lucas Oil Speedway, Wheatland, Mo., $30,000
June 2, Cleveland (Tenn.) Speedway, $10,000
June 3, Tazewell (Tenn.) Speedway, $10,000
June 4, Florence Speedway, Union, Ky., $10,000
June 17, Cherokee Speedway, Gaffney, S.C., $10,000
June 18, Wythe Raceway, Rural Retreat, Va., $10,000
July 1, Beckley (W.Va.) Motorsports Park, $10,000
July 2, Portsmouth (Ohio) Raceway Park, $10,000
July 3, Muskingum County Raceway, Zanesville, Ohio, $10,000
July 8-9, Magnolia Motor Speedway, Columbus, Miss., $20,000
July 10, Rome (Ga.) Speedway, $10,000
July 15, Tri-City Speedway, Granite City, Ill., $10,000
July 16, Lucas Oil Speedway, Wheatland, Mo., $10,000
July 26, Fonda (N.Y.) Speedway, $10,000
July 28, Utica-Rome Speedway, Vernon, N.Y., $10,000
July 30, Hagerstown (Md.) Speedway, $10,000
Aug. 12-13, Florence Speedway, Union, Ky., $50,000
Aug. 19-20, Batesville (Ark.) Motor Speedway, $40,000
Aug. 25, Volunteer Speedway, Bulls Gap, Tenn., $10,000
Aug. 26, Lawrenceburg (Ind.) Speedway, $10,000
Aug. 27, Bluegrass Speedway, Bardstown, Ky., $10,000
Sept. 2-3, Portsmouth (Ohio) Raceway Park, $20,000
Sept. 4, West Virginia Motor Speedway, Mineral Wells, W.Va., $43,000
Sept. 16, Winchester (Va.) Speedway, $10,000
Sept. 17, Virginia Motor Speedway, Jamaica, Va., $15,000
Sept. 23-24, Brownstown (Ind.) Speedway, $20,000
Oct. 7-8, Dixie Speedway, Woodstock, Ga., $20,000
(Other dates to be announced)