UMA Grand National Series Set to Join the United Motorsports Association Lineup

The United Motorsports Association is expanding with the launch of the UMA Grand National Series, a new Thursday night championship built to closely mirror the real-world NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series experience.

The UMA Grand National Series will race on Thursday nights at 8:30 PM EST, following the real-life NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series schedule. Each event will use the same race length as its real-life counterpart, creating an authentic companion series structure for drivers, teams, and fans. Tire allotments, race strategy, event formats, and overall scheduling will be designed to reflect the real-world series as closely as possible, giving competitors a true national-series racing experience within UMA.

This new series adds another major layer to the UMA ecosystem. While the UMA Cup Series remains the top-level championship, the Grand National Series will provide its own identity, competitive field, team-building opportunities, and weekly storylines. Drivers will have the chance to compete for wins, points, sponsorship value, and championship positioning in a series that rewards speed, consistency, tire management, and long-run race execution.

To maintain the identity of the Grand National Series while still allowing crossover competition, full-time UMA Cup Series drivers will be limited to 8 Grand National starts throughout the season. Cup Series drivers will not earn Grand National drivers points in any event they enter. However, if a Cup Series driver competes in a Grand National car, that entry will still be eligible to score owners points for the team.

UMA Grand National Series drivers will not be restricted on UMA Cup Series starts. However, if a Grand National driver enters a UMA Cup Series event, they will not earn Cup Series drivers points. This structure allows drivers to move between series, gain experience, and help organizations compete, while preserving the integrity of each championship’s full-time driver standings.

The UMA website has been fully updated to support the new series. The schedule page, standings, race results, and news system now all include Grand National Series functionality, allowing the championship to be tracked and presented with the same level of detail as the rest of UMA’s competition structure.

Behind the scenes, the backend dashboard has also been expanded to support the Grand National Series. Core league management tools including sponsorships, car assignments, entry lists, and other administrative functions are now compatible with the new series. This ensures that teams and league staff can manage the Grand National Series with the same depth, organization, and career-mode integration already built into the UMA platform.

The addition of the UMA Grand National Series marks another major step forward in building a deeper, more immersive racing league environment. With real-world scheduling, authentic race lengths, strategic tire management, defined driver eligibility rules, and full website and dashboard support, the series is positioned to become a major part of the UMA weekly racing experience.

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