Following its first season as a national touring sprint car series, High Limit Racing is continuing to progress as the 2025 season nears.
During Monday’s Race Industry Week morning session, which aired live on SPEED SPORT.com, 2021 NASCAR Cup Series champion and High Limit co-owner Kyle Larson discussed the series’ growth.
Among the topics was High Limit’s progress in creating a potential charter system for its full-time teams like the NASCAR Cup Series and NTT IndyCar Series have adopted.
While a timetable of when it would be implemented was not revealed, Larson stated the series continues to examine what a charter system would look like in sprint car racing.
“It’s quite a bit different than NASCAR, obviously, with the massive TV contracts and stuff like that, that comes in there,” Larson said.
“Trying to kinda figure out the right way to shape that to make it beneficial for everybody involved and make it better than what it is. Still trying to work through that, it’s really tough.
“We’re working hard at it and, hopefully, we’ll have some information for everybody here soon. Then we can paint a better picture for the long term of how it’s going to grow and be more financially beneficial for the team owners.”
From a financial standpoint, High Limit continues to pour significant funds into the series through its Midweek Money Series program and high-paying finales at certain race tracks.
The series’ 2025 schedule, which includes a $25,000-to-win finale at The Dirt Track at Las Vegas Motor Speedway to kick off the season, features 61 races in its second full season of competition.
While the jump from 11 races in 2023 to 60-plus this year was a tall task, Larson credited his crew working behind the scenes for its success.
“We’ve got a great team led by Brad Sweet, Kendra Jacobs, Josh Peterman and Mike Hess,” Larson began. “There are a lot of people involved that have been up and down the road a lot.
“It was fun to kinda see the series progress this year. We had, I think 16 full-time traveling teams, which was amazing. I felt like the fans really grew to enjoy the product that we have and kinda how we mesh within the sport and the ecosystem.”
High Limit unveiled its 61-race slate for next season in November, which consists of 15 new tracks. Larson stressed the tireless pursuit of curating the schedule, which is spearheaded by co-owner and reigning High Limit champion, Brad Sweet.
“Our schedule this past year was exciting because I think it was a lot of new tracks for a lot of drivers. I think it kind of threw some curveballs then at the teams and having to grow on their setup package that they maybe have for years going to new tracks.
“That was exciting to see people learn quickly. Honestly, building the schedule, I would say is one of the toughest, if not the toughest, thing to do with having a series. Brad Sweet, that’s pretty much his thing. He’s worked really, really hard on it the past two years,” Larson continued.
“It’s been tough because there are already so many big races already in place. So, you’re kinda trying to logistically work around all of that. There are certain regions that like one series more than another. Then it’s hard to get into that region.
Then you’re having to look at tracks that nobody’s really familiar with. It’s a challenge, but I think it’s a fun challenge.”