Kyle Larson on running a series and his biggest racing challenge: 12 Questions

Each week, The Athletic asks the same 12 questions to a different race car driver. This person says: “As a grassroots sprint car racer, I struggle to decide whether I should run weekly at a track and race for wins or get out and travel with a regional touring series or the Outlaws or USAC when they’re close by — but running at the back or mid-pack when they come. Or are you like, “All right, maybe I have to calm them down a little bit and step in here?” Well, we eat out all the time, so we’ve definitely dealt with all that. But the promotion side, trying to find new ways to get fans to buy tickets and come to the race — when you’re just racing, you don’t really care about that. In the sprint car, you sit on the left rear tire where in late models, you’re on the right front and you want to stay somewhere in that posture.