Gifts for NASCAR Fans
Lionel has released their first, and only wave, of their NASCAR Authentics Winner’s Circle line for the 2025 season.
Lionel announced the line of race-winning 1:64 scale die-cast on Thursday morning via a post on social media.
Though they typically release multiple waves a year, Lionel said in this post, “1 and done for 2025,” hinting that this will be the only Winners Circle wave focused on this past season.
Despite the line’s focus on 2025, it includes four race win die-casts from 2024:
Though it does come with its fair share of 2025 race wins, most of these have already seen releases outside of the NASCAR Authentics retail line, in Lionel’s Action Racing series.
From this list, Zilisch’s COTA win is the only 2025 car in the wave not to have a 1:64 ARC release.
Lionel relaunched the Winner’s Circle brand in 2023 as a higher-quality counterpart to its already well-established NASCAR Authentics retail line of NASCAR die-casts.
Unlike their counterparts, these cars featured finer details, were all “race win” designs, and came with a stand and card for display.
If Lionel indeed only releases one wave of Winner’s Circle for 2025, it will be the only year since the series launch in 2023 to have only one wave.
Previously, Lionel had six waves of Winners Circle die-cast in 2023 and four in 2025.
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