TEXARKANA, Ark. — After a month off, Kubota High Limit Racing is ready to kick the season into full swing with 18 races over 35 days beginning at Texarkana 67 Speedway and Texas Motor Speedway this week.
First up is a trip to Arkansas as Texarkana hosts the series for the first time on Wednesday, April 30 with the 11-race Roto-Rooter Midweek Series beginning.
After that, Fort Worth’s Texas Motor Speedway is calling as the Stockyard Stampede expands to two nights with racing on Thursday, May 1 and Saturday, May 3 at the TMS Dirt Track.
GONE RACING
While Kubota High Limit Racing hasn’t held any series events over the last month, the racers kept busy with action all across the country.
Tyler Courtney finished fourth and third in races with the World of Outlaws, while Rico Abreu won two features at Knoxville Raceway, including a World of Outlaws main event. Tanner Thorson captured a POWRi sprint car feature.
Kasey Kahne made his return to the NASCAR Xfinity Series and competed in a sprint car at Port Royal Speedway, while Daison Pursley raced with the World of Outlaws and USAC.
Brad Sweet, Aaron Retuzel, Brent Marks, Justin Peck, Chase Randall, Spencer Bayston, Danny Sams III and Brenham Crouch were all active in winged sprint cars.
BACK ON TRACK
The Kasey Kahne Racing No. 49 team has picked up where ity left off with defending champion Brad Sweet building a 47-point advantage thanks to a six-for-six top-10 streak to start the year.
Last year’s championship runner-up is his closest contender at the moment with Tyler Courtney and the Clauson-Marshall Racing No. 7bc waiting to pounce.
After leaving Las Vegas dead last (14th) in the standings, Aaron Reutzel has willed the Ridge & Sons Racing No. 87 all the way up to third and only 77-points back from “The Big Cat.”
Expected title contenders like Brent Marks (-82) and Rico Abreu (-92) remain within reach as we fire up the busiest stretch of the season.
MIDWEEK SERIES
An integral part in the creation of the series, midweek racing remains a focus of Kubota High Limit Racing.
In 2025, the Midweek Series welcomes Roto-Rooter Plumbing as the title sponsor of the 11-race mini-series which takes racers to eight different states and brings midweek sprint car action to living rooms worldwide.
After being rained out last year, Texarkana’s 67 Speedway is slated to serve as the opener of the Roto-Rooter Midweek Series April 30.
The series begins with a bang as we go four-straight weeks with Roto-Rooter Midweek Series events ranging from Texarkana to 81 to Kokomo Speedway, Fremont Speedway and Grandview Speedway.
The first two seasons of the Midweek Series have provided intense championship battles with Kyle Larson besting Rico Abreu by a mere seven points in 2023 and then Tyler Courtney topping Brad Sweet via tiebreaker in 2024.
STAMPEDE
With the Stockyard Stampede being elevated to a two-day spring show – this Thursday and Saturday – at Texas Motor Speedway, it offers teams an extra night to prepare for the All-In Championship Weekend on Oct. 17-18.
Last year, Brent Marks was the most consistent High Roller at TMS, topping a POWRi show and then finishing 6th-4th-1st with High Limit, including that big $50,000 final check.
Brad Sweet was another winner at the Fort Worth facility, as was Aaron Reutzel, who swept POWRi’s fall weekend in his home state.
Kyle Larson, already a 12-time winner in 2025 with eight podiums in eight sprint car starts, will be with the series all week from Texarkana to TMS in the potent Silva Motorsports No. 57.
A three-time NASCAR Cup Series winner this year in his Joe Gibbs Racing No. 20, Christopher Bell will try again to make his Kubota High Limit Racing debut on Thursday night at TMS in the Kreitz Racing No. 69k.
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. is expected to at least compete at Texarkana on Wednesday in his NOS Energy Drink No. 17jr.
Corey Day, who won the season-opener at Las Vegas, will return to the Jason Meyers Racing No. 14bc for at least Thursday at TMS before getting back on the pavement as a Hendrick Motorsports development driver.
Bell is scheduled for Thursday only, opening the seat for Daryn Pittman on Saturday, who has led laps in all three of his Kubota High Limit Racing attempts in the Kreitz Racing No. 69k.
Last fall, Pittman, the 2013 World of Outlaws champion, finished second both nights at Texas Motor Speedway.
