Rico Abreu Beats Kyle Larson In Texas Traffic For Stockyard Stampede High Limit Racing Score
Story By: BRIAN WALKER / HIGH LIMIT RACING – FORT WORTH, TX – “Everything Bigger in Texas,” including the crowds and the action on-track when it comes to Saturday’s Stockyard Stampede finale at the Texas Motor Speedway Dirt Track.
A jam-packed grandstands played witness to a non-stop chase through lap traffic as Rico Abreu, Kyle Larson, and Brad Sweet hosted a high-speed chess match in a 30-lapper that took seven minutes and 30 seconds to go green-to-checkered.
Winning the FK Rod Ends Dash and earning the pole position, Kyle Larson was in the catbird seat as the green flag waved, but it was outside pole sitter Rico Abreu acing the start and riding the high line to the early lead.
From there, it was all about traffic as Abreu’s No. 24, Larson’s No. 57, and Sweet’s No. 49 danced through there back markers and provided a thrilling duel for Fort Worth fans. There was three-wide splits with traffic and numerous close calls before Abrey ultimately topped Larson by 1.020-seconds at the line.
That’s three-straight weekends with a win for Rico Abreu Racing and his first Kubota High Limit Racing victory of the season. The St. Helena, California native has regained sole position of the all-time wins record with his 13th trip to Whiskey Myers Victory Lane.
After a NASCAR Xfinity Series win earlier today at the big track, Kyle Larson ended his busy day at Texas Motor Speedway with a runner-up on the dirt track. He’ll run his fourth race of the weekend tomorrow afternoon in the Hendrick Motorsports No. 5 during the NASCAR Cup Series race.
Aboard the gold NAPA Auto Parts No. 49, the results were silver and bronze this weekend for Brad Sweet and Kasey Kahne Racing. After a runner-up finish on Thursday, “The Big Cat” extended his championship lead thanks to a third-place run on Saturday.
Texan Sam Hafertepe Jr. and NASCAR prodigy Corey Day closed out the top-five. Rounding out the top-10 was Aaron Reutzel, Brent Marks, Spencer Bayston, Justin Peck, and Kasey Kahne.
THE ALL-IN NOTEBOOK (5/3/25)
- Texas Motor Speedway (Fort Worth, TX)
- Dirt Draft Fastest in Hot Laps – Aaron Reutzel (13.794)
- Capital Custom Trailers QuickTime – Rico Abreu (13.827)
- TJ Forged Heat One Winner – Rico Abreu
- DMI Heat Two Winner – Aaron Reutzel
- BR Motorsports Heat Three Winner – Kyle Larson
- FK Rod Ends Dash Winner – Kyle Larson
- Winters Performance B-Main Winner – Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- Jake’s Golf Carts Fastest Lap Award – Rico Abreu (13.669)
- Rod End Supply Hard Charger – Spencer Bayston +6 (14th-to-8th)
- Lap Leaders – Rico Abreu 1-25
Kubota A Feature (30 Laps): 1. 24-Rico Abreu[2]; 2. 57-Kyle Larson[1]; 3. 49-Brad Sweet[5]; 4. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr[4]; 5. 14BC-Corey Day[7]; 6. 87-Aaron Reutzel[3]; 7. 19-Brent Marks[6]; 8. 14-Spencer Bayston[14]; 9. 26-Justin Peck[13]; 10. 9-Kasey Kahne[8]; 11. 13-Daison Pursley[11]; 12. 42-Sye Lynch[10]; 13. 36-Jason Martin[16]; 14. 24D-Danny Sams III[15]; 15. 22M-Rees Moran[12]; 16. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[9]; 17. J2-John Carney II[23]; 18. 5-Brenham Crouch[24]; 19. 9R-Chase Randall[20]; 20. 4-Austin Mundie[17]; 21. 45X-Landon Crawley[18]; 22. 17JR-Ricky Stenhouse Jr[19]; 23. 88-Tanner Thorson[21]; 24. 69K-Daryn Pittman[22]
