Column: From Texas Debut To WoO Sprint Car Tour For Fischer Motorsports In One Year

Column By: ALEX NIETEN / WORLD OF OUTLAWS – PAIGE, TX – A year ago, a new Sprint Car team rolled into Cotton Bowl Speedway for its debut.

These were no newbies just getting into the game, though. This was a professional organization right off the bat run by a family passionate for the sport. A pristine blue and white hauler. A simple yet sharp paint scheme on the car. The Fischer Motorsports No. 23 was unleashed and ready to be a part of the top level of Sprint Car racing.

Longtime supporter of Sprint Cars, Curt Fischer, had always wanted to field a team, and the right opportunity arose in 2024. They put the pieces together, hired Garet Williamson to drive, and hit the road for a busy pick-and-choose season.

“I’ll tell you we were excited to get going,” Fischer recalled. “Of course, there was no steering units and no rear ends available, or we would’ve been in Florida last year. So, we waited until the last minute, and of course the other teams had units left from the previous year, so they could still make Florida. That’s why we held off and started in Texas. It was a very interesting weekend, and it was a very interesting year for us.”

“That (Cotton Bowl) was our first race last year,” Williamson said. “It was a long but quick off-season, if that makes sense. By the time we got parts and everything it was just thrash-season. Starting a team up from scratch is very hard, especially nowadays with just how hard it is to get parts and the quantity we were ordering to build a high-caliber team.”

Fast forward a year, and they’ve risen to the pinnacle of the sport. Williamson returns to Cotton Bowl this weekend for the Federated Auto Parts Texas Two-Step with a new set of circumstances. Fischer sent his team out for a full-time run with the World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Cars in 2025.

But they didn’t simply want to be a part of The Greatest Show on Dirt. They wanted to have an impact. Go toe-to-toe with the best Sprint Car drivers in the world and compete with them. So far, that’s exactly what they’ve done.

Williamson heads back to the site of Fischer Motorsports’ debut atop the Kevin Gobrecht Rookie of the Year standings above a loaded class of seven contestants. Led by crew chief Chad Cypert, the team’s consistency as of late brought an 11.3 average finish in the last six races including a season-best seventh at Kennedale Speedway Park.

For Williamson and Fischer, their early performance is a testament to racing as often as they could last year in many areas of the country and usually facing off with the toughest competition.

“I think it shows a lot about how important it is to get as many laps as you can and shows why the guys that have been doing it so long are as good as they are,” Williamson said. “Being with the same guys and team is just as important as any stick-and-ball sport being with the same team. It just grows so much faster and better, and you just build a bond with your guys. Luckily, me and Chaddy (Chad Cypert) worked together in the past, so that kind of curve of learning each other and how we function is not too bad because we’ve also gotten along really well. I think that was huge.”

“I couldn’t ask for a better Florida,” Fischer said. “I was very happy with our performance down there. It’s a tough time to be in Sprint Car racing because everybody is so close, and there’s so much money out there that you got to run at the top of your game. You don’t get a second chance like years in the past whenever I was with Jason Johnson and others. You could always rely on somebody slipping up, and you’d be fine, and now it’s like holy cow. You’ve got to hold on to everything you can get, and no you don’t want to go out there and make anybody mad especially being a rookie, but by the same token you’ve still got to race your car.”

There’s a long way to go in 2025, but the season started on the right foot for Williamson. He’s not shy about his desire to claim the Kevin Gobrecht Rookie of the Year. You only get one chance as a driver. Fischer wants to see his team win the award, and all indications are they’ll be in the hunt. They’ve come a long way from first unloading at Cotton Bowl last spring.

“Before the season started, Garet said, ‘I guarantee you we’re going to win the rookie points.’ Well, that was before six other guys jumped on board,” Fischer said with a laugh. “So, we’re really putting him to the test, him and the team, to get out there and win this thing. We’re really excited.”

Williamson and the Fischer Motorsports team take on Paige, TX’s Cotton Bowl Speedway at this weekend’s Federated Auto Parts Texas Two-Step this weekend (March 21-22).