‘I don’t want to do it when I’m too old,’ Kyle Larson claims he wants to make his Indy 500 debut in his ‘prime’
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Kyle Larson
With the dominant display of superior racing quality last year’s NASCAR cup championship Kyle Larson has already marked himself as one of the modern-day greats of the sport in a Hendrick Motorsports team that never lacked NASCAR superstars. Though the 2022 season is yet to see a dominant display off racing from him no one will write him off as not being a championship contender as he is still among the front runners in championship table.
Kyle Larson isn’t just a stock car racer as he is among the drivers who has one of the biggest race schedules in NASCAR as alongside the Cup outing, he is also an active presence in dirt racing and many other forms of tracing in the US. The IndyCar series is the Golden jewel of open wheel racing in the states and its annual race day at Indianapolis Motor speedway, the Indy 500, is one of the most iconic races in Motorsports racing .
The indy500 debut is among the bucket list of many NASCAR drivers as its among the most challenging and exciting races in the world. The defending champion Kyle Larson is no exception as he has many a time acknowledge his wish to race in the series. One of the main concern of drivers is the fact that the indy500 schedule coincide with Charlotte cup race but this doesn’t hold back Larson as he is ready to make the move soon, the former HMS legend Jimmie Johnson made recently, late in his career.
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Kyle Larson when asked about his plans for IndyCar series debut acknowledged that he is open to trying it in the future as he wanted to do it when the time is right. He pointed out that his future plans can be a logistic knight mare as it calls for a lot of flybacks from Charlotte to Indianapolis tracks. Kyle Larson went on to say that his wish to participate in any the Indy 500 demands sacrifice which should come within and outside of his NASCAR commitments.
“I’d be open to trying it in the future. I just want to do it when the time is right. Logistically it’s probably really hard to do. I mean, there is lots of flying back and forth between Charlotte and Indy and I would probably have to sacrifice some things on the NASCAR side as well as outside of NASCAR,” says Kyle Larson.
Kyle Larson went on to say that he wanted race in the Indy 500 with in the next four or five years as he doesn’t want himself to ride when he don’t feel like he isn’t in his prime, as most of the NASCAR drivers to have participated in Indy Series usually do it after retiring at an old age from NASCAR, which obviously hinder their chance at success. He reiterated that he definitely wanted to race in Indy one day.
“I would say I want to do it in the next four to five years. I don’t want to do it when I’m too old and when I don’t feel like I’m in my prime. But yeah, I would definitely like to do it someday,” added Kyle Larson.
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