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.
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:
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.
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: 5 questions for Wisconsin racing in 2025: How much sprint car racing is too much?
Reporting by Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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