Bob Pockrass
Fox Motorsports Insider
Kansas City, Kan. – It would be easy to declare Kyle Larson as one of the best races
It will even compete with a Sprint car on Monday night in Kokomo, Indiana, before spending 230 miles per hour in Tuesday in preparation for the biggest sports race.
But it is not just the talent that has allowed Larson to reach such heights.
In the last 18 days, Larson has destroyed his car Indy 500, won Sprint-Car races, almost had another land of Sprint car in his lap, won a race of the Xfinity series and finished second and fourth in the races of the Cup before dominating the Cup field on Sunday in Kansas Speedway for his third victory of the season.
He simply had a career where he did not compete. Larson had committed to the truck race on Saturday in Kansas to complete the Kured Connor Zilisch, but William Byron asked to do it and that was fine for Larson.
Some pilots would have persistent concerns after an accident or were angry that they had a racing task away from them or had the opportunity to see other victories escaped. No Larson.
“Maybe I have hit enough, I have little memory,” Larson joked. “My memory has vanished.”
Larson led 221 of the 267 laps on Sunday in Kansas, adjusting the duration of the race how much the car punished to make sure they are not tire problems that affect some of the other competitors.
He also delivered the advantage of the points of his teammate Hendrick Byron.
“Nothing really gets under his skin,” said Hendrick Motorsports Chad Knaus competition. “Does not stiffen. He doesn’t get excited about something that happens on the racing track.
“It does not get excited and has weight on their shoulders. Maybe they have a bad career or whatever, it’s like a back water of a duck. Simply roll with him and continue driving. And he loves races.”
That ability to forget the past included the wreck on Friday night in Lakeside Speedway, a stone shot from the Cup track. Compeating in a series, the owners with their brother -in -law, Larson saw another car go out in the air in front of him and hit Larson’s car.
Larson threw him as “only races.”
“They gathered, and I was already committed to the top and the child or had any place to go,” Larson said. “Grateful, everything remained well, and nothing got into the cabin or anything like that.”
The pilots who compete against him weekly were certainly not surprised that Larson could have such a slight reaction and not sweat as he dominated a cup race.
“I don’t think there is any way of saying that Kyle Larson is a bit different from the rest of us, right?” Said Hendrick’s teammate from Larson, Alex Bowman, who stopped the car races after suffering a broken in an accident a couple of years ago. “Only on the side of versatility, there are certainly days that you can go to him in a cup car, but he can do it at anything.
“I guess you will have an opportunity to run very well in Indy 500, which is really great.”
Chase Briscoe, another driver with Sprint-Car roots, said that running a sprint car with much higher and less weight power allows things in a cup car to feel that it is going in slow motion.
“We are all like this to some extent,” Briscoe said about the easy -to -forget mentality after a fourth place. “Kyle is an incredible racing car driver. I always say the best of all time.
“My dad and I talk a lot about what Kyle goes and directs a Sprint-car race, it could be $ 5,000 to win, or $ 100, it doesn’t matter. He is willing to risk everything, and he doesn’t believe it.”
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That attitude allowed Larson, when he joined Hendrick Motorsports in 2021, to convince team executives to relax the restarts of what drivers can do outside Nascar.
“He loves driving career cars and loves to compete, and that is something quite special,” Knaus said. “And when you have such a talented young man that it was to drive all the time, you must let me do that.”
After competing in a racing car the last three days, Larson will be on a racing track for 11 consecutive days, provided that the weather does not eliminate anything this week in Indiana. Of course, it was the weather that ruined his attempt of a double Indy 500-Coke 600 last year, the only time Larson seemed visible that things did not come out on their way.
“Because I run a lot, I suppose, … it is a large part of me, the bee capable of quickly moving forward of things, whether a good career or bad career or a disaster or a good result, bad, whatever, mistakes on the road,” Larson said.
“Obviously, however, if it happens several times in a row, you can children or stay a little more, but more your trust hurts a little. I think it only competes a lot, so it is likely to help.”
For the second consecutive year, Larson enters Indianapolis 500 as leader of points in the Cup series. It is not known that Larson boasts, but it does mean that fact.
“It’s really great,” Larson said. “I think it’s good for our team. I think it’s good for our sports.
“I would say last year was a goal. This year I did this. One too.”
Bob Pockrass covers Nascar and Indycar for Fox Sports. Decades have passed engine sports, including more than 30 Daytona 500s, with periods in ESPN, Sporting News, Nascar Scene Magazine and The (Daytona Beach) News-Journal. Follow it on Twitter @Bobpock.
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