Sye Lynch Joins High Limit Racing For Full-Time Run At Championship In 2025

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Story By: HIGH LIMIT RACING – MOORESVILLE, NC – Add Sye Lynch to the ever-growing list of up-and-coming Sprint Car drivers competing for Kubota High Limit Racing’s Rookie of the Year in 2025.

The 27-year-old racer of Apollo, Pa., will indeed make his boldest transition of his racing career this year as he announced during Wednesday’s Chili Bowl Nationals broadcast on FloRacing that he’s competing full-time on High Limit Racing.

The third-generation racer, whose grandfather Ed Lynch Sr. and father Ed Jr. are among winningest drivers in Lernerville Speedway history, has been preparing for this moment the past few years, competing in 26 of the 51 events High Limit totaled in its inaugural national season last year. A trio of top-fives, five top-10s, and a near-win June 28 at Missouri’s Lucas Oil Speedway proved to Lynch he’s ready to embark on his first-ever national touring campaign.

He’ll join reigning USAC National Midget champion Daison Pursley and six-time winner in a 410 last year Danny Sams III as High Limit’s ever-growing 2025 rookie class.

“Over the past few years here, the Sprint Car industry has changed a bunch, for the better, for sure,” Lynch told FloRacing on Tuesday, the night before his High Limit announcement. “If you’re not changing with it, I think in order to grow, you have to continue to change. For my operation, being a local, homegrown operation, with my main partner since I’ve had since day one, we’ve really just looked at our goal from three years ago, which was building to become a full-time All Star (Circuit of Champions) team.”

“Then obviously with it transitioning into High Limit (over the winter of 2023), it obviously caught our attention.”

The majority of Lynch’s events last year were spent on the road as 39 of his 43 events entered were sanctioned by High Limit Racing or World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car series. Lynch also entered the Capitani Classic, perhaps the toughest single-day event in Sprint Car racing. All told, Lynch learned that “running with those guys night in and night out was obviously only the tip of the iceberg as far as seeing if we could do it.”

Lynch left a grand impression on the Sprint Car world during High Limit’s June 28 stop at Lucas Oil Speedway, one of the finest facilities in dirt-track racing where he led nine total laps and finished fifth. A pair of runner-ups during Commonwealth Clash weekend at his home track Lernerville Speedway on Sept. 13-14 convinced Lynch all the more that if he can get himself comfortable racing on the road, he has what it takes to pull his weight.

“To do it nowadays with your homegrown car is tough,” Lynch said. “With rides being bought out, rented out, it’s getting tougher and tougher for a driver to even attempt to climb the ladder of any sorts. To do it in your own operation is definitely a sense of gratitude, but it’s also a lot more stress, I can tell you that.”

Amid the hiring process for two crewmen that’d fill out his full-time, race-day crew, Lynch has conducted 18 interviews since November’s World Finals.

Last year, Lynch traveled with good friend Zane Reese as his lone crewman. Reese can’t travel this year with Lynch, who’s in “a bidding war” versus his touring counterparts, emphasizing that “from what I’ve heard from other teams, it’s harder this year than any other year, for sure,” when it comes to finding full-time crewmen.

“It’s getting tougher and tougher to (firstly), met the qualifications, but (secondly) also be committed to the road life nine months out of the year. It’s really hard,” said Lynch, who’s a busy man this week at the Chili Bowl.

While at Chili Bowl, Lynch, whose prelim night is Thursday, is meeting with a few of his out-of-state sponsors to make sure they’re set for his exciting 2025 season. He’s also hoping he can officially hire at least one crewman inside Tulsa Expo Raceway this week, adding that “we are looking to hire too guys here in a matter of hours.”

Last year, Lynch did the brunt of the car maintenance: Building, tearing down, rebuilding, and car washes with some duties to name.

“That’s where I have a different perspective on things because I don’t know of any other driver that was doing that on a seminational deal to that level,” Lynch said. “Having that respect for it and being the one that had to pay for it, I think there’s a couple different angles, I think I have a different approached, then maybe majority of other people at this point.”

Being in Western Pennsylvania is nice a headquarters for Lynch, too, as 11 of 61 events on the High Limit schedule are within five hours. Lynch also has experience crewing on the road as he worked with Josh Baughman in 2021.

“I was hired to come in and liquidate his assets four years ago, so I saw firsthand what it takes to become a national team, and having great resources and friends here in the Sprint Car world,” Lynch said. “This is all I’ve ever grown up knowing. I’ve gotten some good advice from some good people. A lot of thought has been into what it takes to become a national team.”

 
 
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