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5 days ago
- Automotive
- Yahoo
5 questions for Wisconsin racing in 2025: How much sprint car racing is too much?
Before the calendar flipped, we looked ahead to five questions to be answered – or at least addressed – during the 2025 Wisconsin racing season. One involves an incredible and ambituous stretch of sprint car racing at its highest levels with Kyle Larson's High Limit series June 3-4 and the World of Outlaws June 6-7-8. Advertisement Other questions involved the Milwaukee Mile, the ASA STARS National Tour, what the future might look like for NASCAR in the state, and the short-track juggernaut that is Ty Majeski. But here's the second: Rico Abreu, right, and Brad Sweet, seen at a World of Outlaws race at Beaver Dam Raceway in 2022, are now regulars on the High Limit Racing sprint car series. More: Key Wisconsin auto racing events for the 2025 season How will an unofficial Wisconsin sprint week play out? Not only did the World of Outlaws grace Wisconsin with eight races in 2025, it dropped three of them alongside the previously announced two-night Badger State debut for Kyle Larson's High Limit Racing. Five events in six nights are an abundance for sprint car fans. High Limit is set to race June 3 at 141 Speedway in Maribel and June 4 at Red Cedar Speedway in Menomonie to start this unofficial Wisconsin sprint week. The Outlaws events fall on June 6 at the Plymouth Dirt Track, June 7 at Beaver Dam Raceway (the traditional $20,000-to-win Jim 'JB' Boyd Memorial) and June 8 at Angell Park Speedway in Sun Prairie. Advertisement There's one conflict across the timespan, Red Cedar on the night of an Outlaws' stop in Jackson, Minnesota. Will any High Limit teams use their proximity and free weekend to cross over and give fans a bigger treat? How many Wisconsin drivers might partake? What's the chance the weather holds for all five nights? And, ultimately, will ticket buyers be able to support it all? Then the Outlaws will be back in the state for doubleheaders June 27-28 at Cedar Lake Speedway in New Richmond and July 11-12 at Wilmot Raceway as well as a single night Aug. 19 at Mississippi Thunder Speedway in Fountain City. This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Big week for High Limit, Outlaws sprint car racing in Wisconsin
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Entertainment
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World of Outlaws and Kyle Larson's High Limit both race in Wisconsin in a big week for sprint cars
Kyle Larson's High Limit Racing sprint car series will make its Wisconsin debut just ahead of the first three World of Outlaws sprint car races in the state, creating an unofficial Wisconsin sprint week. Here's what to know. What is the World of Outlaws sprint car series? The World of Outlaws is the most established series for winged, 410 sprint cars on dirt in the United States, having started in 1978, and the most ambitious, with about 90 nights per year. The series has eight Wisconsin dates planned for 2025. What is High Limit Racing? High Limit Racing is the series formed by NASCAR star Kyle Larson and Brad Sweet, Larson's brother-in-law and five-time World of Outlaws champion, on a limited basis for 2023 and then expanded for 2024 with the absorption of the former All Star Circuit of Champions. High Limit has not raced in Wisconsin prior to 2025, although the All Star Circuit of Champions has. Kyle Larson's left front tire comes off the ground as he works his way around Gio Scelzi for the lead in the 2020 Rayce Rudeen Foundation race at the Plymouth Dirt Track. Wisconsin sprint week schedule, tracks, location, tickets June 3: High Limit Rayce Rudeen Race at 141 Speedway, Maribel. Tickets: $45 adult general admission, $20 children 6-12; Advertisement June 4: High Limit at Red Cedar Speedway, Menomonie. Tickets: $45 adult general admission, $20 children 6-12; June 6: Outlaws at the Plymouth Dirt Track. Tickets: $45 adult general admission, $25 children 6-11; June 7: Outlaws Jim 'JB' Boyd Memorial at Beaver Dam Raceway, $20,000 to win. Tickets: $45 adult general admission, $25 children 6-11; June 8: Outlaws at Angell Park Speedway, Sun Prairie. Tickets: $45 adult general admission, $25 children 6-11; Who are High Limit Racing drivers to watch at 141 Speedway and Red Cedar Speedway? With two races to go before getting to Wisconsin, Brad Sweet led the standings on the strength of 12 top-five finishes and two wins in 15 races, but Rico Abreu (four) and Aaron Reutzel (three) both had more wins. Advertisement Kyle Larson, the 2021 NASCAR champion, competes in weekday races and had one victory in his first six starts. Former NASCAR driver Kasey Kahne runs the series fulltime but had yet to win. Who are World of Outlaws drivers to watch at Plymouth, Beaver Dam and Angell Park? Defending series champion David Gravel led the standings through May 31 and had a series-high eight victories through 27 races. Michael Kofoid got his fourth victory May 30 in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Carson Macedo has three wins. Sheldon Haudenschild, who won May 31 in West Fargo, North Dakota, for his second victory of the season, has claimed five of the past seven Outlaws races at Beaver Dam. Giovanni Scelzi won the other two, including his first Outlaws win in 2023. Advertisement Longtime Wisconsin competitor Bill Balog scored his second victory in the series in March and is in the top 10 in the standings in his second full season with the World of Outlaws. This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Outlaws, Kyle Larson's High Limit sprint cars race in Wisconsin
Associated Press
12-05-2025
- Automotive
- Associated Press
NASCAR star Kyle Larson is ready to focus on the Indianapolis 500 — after a sprint car race
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Kyle Larson said he would turn his attention to the Indianapolis 500, and a second crack at racing immortality, the moment he stepped out of his car following the NASCAR Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway on Sunday. The only problem with that? He wasn't due for practice at Indianapolis Motor Speedway until Tuesday. Plenty of time to squeeze in another race. So even as Larson was basking in the glow of a third Cup Series win of the season while flying to Indianapolis on Sunday night, he wasn't quite ready to fully focus on the 500. The plan was to hop in a car and drive to Kokomo, Indiana, for a sprint car race on Monday night, and only then turn his focus to the 'Greatest Spectacle in Racing.' 'He just goes and goes and goes,' marveled Chad Knaus, the vice president of competition at Hendrick Motorsports, which fields his No. 5 car in the Cup Series and is working with Arrow McLaren to field Larson's car for the Indy 500. The reality is that Larson would rather be behind the wheel of a race car than behind a TV screen, or a bar, or just about anywhere else. His priority every year may be the Cup Series, and winning a second championship, but that leaves plenty of open dates on the schedule where he can sprinkle in an Xfinity Series race, or Truck Series race, or run at a local dirt track. He happened to do that Friday night at Lakeside Speedway, just down the road from Kansas Speedway, where his High Limit Racing series was running. Larson nearly had a sprint car land in his lap during a scary wreck that tore up his car. But he simply shrugged it off as part of racing, and he was back at the track the next morning. 'The thing that I've always been impressed with Kyle since he showed up at Hendrick Motorsports is that he is unfazed,' Knaus said. 'Like, nothing gets under his skin. He doesn't get wound up. He doesn't get emotional about maybe something that happens on the race track. He doesn't get emotional and carry weight on his shoulders. 'He just rolls with it,' Knaus said, 'and he goes and he continues to drive.' That preternaturally placid demeanor was stretched nearly to a breaking point at last year's Indy 500, though. Larson was taking his first shot at 'the Double,' trying to run every lap of the 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 in Charlotte the same day Memorial Day weekend. Many have tried but only Tony Stewart in 1999 has managed to pull it off. But while Larson was able to overcome every problem lobbed at him on the track — aside from a speeding penalty on pit road in the 500 that took him out of contention for the win — he was powerless when it came to dealing with the weather. He doesn't like being powerless. On race day, rain swept through Indianapolis Motor Speedway and soaked the track, leaving Larson to wait in Gasoline Alley to see whether the race would even take place that Sunday. And if it did take place, would he stay and run the 500 or be forced to withdraw so that he could head to Charlotte and fulfill his obligations in the Cup Series race that night? He stuck around and ran every lap of the Indy 500, and was chosen rookie of the year afterward. But the delay kept him from starting the Coca-Cola 600, and by the time his helicopter-plane-helicopter trip from Indiana to North Carolina had deposited him at the track, more rain in Charlotte kept him from ever climbing into his car there and completing a lap. 'Unfortunately once Mother Nature stepped in,' Knaus said, 'we didn't have a whole lot that we could do.' The long-range forecast for the Indianapolis 500 looks much better this year. And once again, Larson is heading into perhaps the busiest month of his calendar year riding a wave of on-track momentum. His dominating victory at Kansas Speedway, where he led 221 of 267 laps on Sunday, was his third Cup Series win of the season, and it moved him into first place in the points standings. Larson also has won two of his three Xfinity starts, one of his two Truck races, and he has a win and three top-five finishes in five sprint car features in the High Limit series. Then again, all that success doesn't seem to matter much to him. 'I don't really let a race affect the next day of my life,' Larson explained Sunday night. 'I would rather win leading into these next couple of weeks than have a DNF or something. But I don't really think it matters.' What happens the next couple of weeks matters a lot, though. He's been waiting a whole year to try 'the Double' again. 'Yeah, it's going to be a fun two weeks,' Larson said. 'I look forward to working together with the team, Arrow McLaren, and learning the car more, trying to narrow in on our balance, and just trying to have a smooth couple weeks like we had last year, and execute like you would in any race and try to be in the hunt at the end.' ___ AP auto racing:
Perth Now
24-04-2025
- Automotive
- Perth Now
NASCAR ace Larson eyes Supercars cameo in Adelaide
If NASCAR ace Kyle Larson has it his way, he'll be testing his mettle against the best Supercars drivers in the streets of Adelaide. The 2021 NASCAR Cup Series champion has set his sights on a cameo in Australia's top motorsports category after spending his off-season at the High Limit Racing series in Perth. The newly rebranded Adelaide Grand Final will take place four weeks after the US category's finale on November 2, meaning an appearance by Larson is feasible. Hendrick Motorsport driver Larson is fourth in the NASCAR standings and is preparing to contest the Indianapolis 500 as part of the IndyCar series. Asked about his racing "bucket list" ahead of the Indianapolis 500, Larson said he has already initiated conversations about racing in a Supercar. "It's really tough to run big races, because I'm racing 54 weekends of the year," Larson said. "One that stands out to me, and hopefully I can put it together down the road, is I'd like to run a Supercar, in particular in Adelaide. "It's their finale, they have a sprint car track in the city as well, so I could do both. "I would like to do that. There's been some conversations. We'll see where it goes. "For right now, it's hard to look that far ahead. Indy is a big deal right now, and we're ingrained in the Cup season." Intrigue around the Adelaide grand final comes after the competition introduced a finals series to this year's championship hunt. The finals series will eliminate championship contenders from 10 to four across the preceding rounds, before Adelaide hosts the decider. The highest point-scoring driver across the grand final will be crowned champion.
West Australian
24-04-2025
- Automotive
- West Australian
NASCAR ace Larson eyes Supercars cameo in Adelaide
If NASCAR ace Kyle Larson has it his way, he'll be testing his mettle against the best Supercars drivers in the streets of Adelaide. The 2021 NASCAR Cup Series champion has set his sights on a cameo in Australia's top motorsports category after spending his off-season at the High Limit Racing series in Perth. The newly rebranded Adelaide Grand Final will take place four weeks after the US category's finale on November 2, meaning an appearance by Larson is feasible. Hendrick Motorsport driver Larson is fourth in the NASCAR standings and is preparing to contest the Indianapolis 500 as part of the IndyCar series. Asked about his racing "bucket list" ahead of the Indianapolis 500, Larson said he has already initiated conversations about racing in a Supercar. "It's really tough to run big races, because I'm racing 54 weekends of the year," Larson said. "One that stands out to me, and hopefully I can put it together down the road, is I'd like to run a Supercar, in particular in Adelaide. "It's their finale, they have a sprint car track in the city as well, so I could do both. "I would like to do that. There's been some conversations. We'll see where it goes. "For right now, it's hard to look that far ahead. Indy is a big deal right now, and we're ingrained in the Cup season." Intrigue around the Adelaide grand final comes after the competition introduced a finals series to this year's championship hunt. The finals series will eliminate championship contenders from 10 to four across the preceding rounds, before Adelaide hosts the decider. The highest point-scoring driver across the grand final will be crowned champion.
