Last week, Kyle Larson and Brad Sweet announced their acquisition of the All-Star Circuit of Champions (ASCoC)a series owned by former NASCAR driver Tony Stewart since 2015.
The future of ASCoC continued to be a topic of conversation even as Larson prepared for the Xfinity 500 at Martinsville Speedway, a track at which he won this spring. He finished sixth on Sunday but had already entered the 4 NASCAR Championship with a victory in Las Vegas two weeks earlier.
Making the sport of sprint car racing healthier as a whole was a critical part of their strategy when Larson and Sweet first announced the launch of the High Limit Sprint Car Series. This goal is still important.
“We’re still trying to piece together our schedule and we obviously haven’t seen what the Outlaws have for their schedule, but we want what’s best for the sport,” Larson said during a briefing. press in Martinsville. “We wouldn’t have had this series if we didn’t want what’s best for the sport.”
Both Larson and Sweet have substantial ties to the Outlaws series. Sweet is the four-time defending champion of this series who will fight for a fifth consecutive this weekend on the Dirt Track at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Larson has won four races in nine starts in 2023 and has 32 total wins with the Outlaws.
“It’s hard to predict the future, what it’s going to look like, but I love track racing,” Larson said. “That’s my whole goal, to continue to develop it and get it to a place where I think it deserves to be and where the teams and the drivers are making a good living. We’ll see how it all plays out.” will unfold.
High Limit was created to run mid-week races with high purses in excess of $20,000.
Larson says he and Sweet haven’t strayed from the concept of midweek shows. And as far as possible, the big exchanges will continue given the constraints of a much longer schedule on tracks with already well-established financial parameters.
“Our goal is to definitely increase scholarships,” Larson said. “When you buy something, you want to make it better for the teams. This is our goal. I think there’s more risk on our side with a much longer schedule than we hope to have.
The ASCoC hosted 45 races in 2023 and up to 53 completed in 2021. Larson competed in three of their events this year with two wins and another top five. He was also the first High Limit champion in 2023.
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