TREMEC Stick Shift Shootout at the 2025 Holley Ford Festival

Two TREMEC manual transmission equipped Ford Mustangs drag race at Beech Bend Raceway

Heads up stick shift racing, no sandbagging, everyone laying it on the line. The TREMEC Stick Shift Shootout at the 2025 Holley Ford Fest promises to be the best shootout ever.

The TREMEC Stick Shift Shootout is returning to the 2025 Holley Ford Festival at Beech Bend Raceway, September 26-27. Bowling Green, Kentucky, will be invaded by Ford fans for a gathering of Blue Oval chrome and muscle. And part of the drag racing action at Holley Ford Fest 2025 will be the TREMEC Stick Shift Shootout, but with some new twists.

The TREMEC Stick Shift Shootout returns to the 2025 Holley Ford Fest at Beech Bend Raceway. This year, the TREMEC Stick Shift Shootout is its own class, and there will be two 8-car sub classes: Street (10.00 or slower E/T) and Pro (9.99 or faster E/T).
ABOVE: The TREMEC Stick Shift Shootout returns to the 2025 Holley Ford Fest at Beech Bend Raceway. This year, the TREMEC Stick Shift Shootout is its own class, and there will be two 8-car sub classes: Street (10.00 or slower E/T) and Pro (9.99 or faster E/T).

“We’ve received a lot of feedback from racers over the last few years on the format of the TREMEC Stick Shift Shootout,” said Mike Kidd, TREMEC Aftermarket Business Unit Manager. “The 2025 Holley Ford Fest gave us a great opportunity to change the format and give the racers something different and exciting to test their stick shift drag racing skills. We think these changes open the competition up for more racers to compete and go for the win.”

Any car running faster than a 10-second E/T will be in the pro class, and cars running 10-second or slower will make up the street class. Both classes will have the same rules: the cars must be street legal, the vehicle must be an H-pattern shifted manual transmission (TREMEC or other manufacturer), be a full bodied “door slammer” car, and be a Ford vehicle. The competition will be heads-up eliminations on a .400 pro tree, and a 0.10-second anti-sandbagging breakout penalty during eliminations. 

Eliminations for both classes of the TREMEC Stick Shift Shootout at the 2025 Holley Ford Fest will be run heads up on a .400 pro tree. Matchups for each round will be determined by random chip draw. And for the first time we’ll have a no sandbagging breakout rule. If any car runs 0.10-seconds faster than its qualifying E/T, that car will be disqualified.
ABOVE: Eliminations for both classes of the TREMEC Stick Shift Shootout at the 2025 Holley Ford Fest will be run heads up on a .400 pro tree. Matchups for each round will be determined by random chip draw. And for the first time we’ll have a no sandbagging breakout rule. If any car runs 0.10-seconds faster than its qualifying E/T, that car will be disqualified.

For the TREMEC Stick Shift Shootout Street Class, the winner will receive $1,000 and a McLeod Racing clutch kit, the runner up $250 and semi-finalist $100. For the Pro class, the winner takes home $1,000 and a TREMEC manual transmission of their choice. The runner up will take home $250 and semi-finalists $100.