MILWUAKEE (CBS 58) -- NASCAR Superstar and former champion Kyle Larson stopped by the CBS58 studios to talk with Sports Director Lance Allan.
As co-owner of the High Limit Racing sprint car series, he came to Wisconsin to race at 141 Speedway in Maribel and Red Cedar Speedway in Menomonie.
"The cars? They're crazy, right?" Kyle Larson told our Lance Allan. "Like 950 plus horsepower. You know, some engines pushing close to a thousand horsepower. With a fourteen-hundred-pound race car. Racing on, you know quarter mile to a half mile track. Like you don't get to feel that quickness in anything else."
After his sprint car flip at Plymouth, is danger his middle name?
"I don't mind living on the edge a little bit I guess," Larson says. "So, and that's kind of what you have to do I feel like to go fast in a sprint car. I love to race number one. But I also love to, you know, take our sport to the next level. And you know I think I, with my platform that I have with racing and NASCAR, it allows me to you know attract fans from a different background of just being maybe pavement racing and coming to watch dirt racing."
Larson one of the best and most versatile drivers today - but his Indy 500 didn't go as planned.
"The Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the Indy 500 is an incredible, it is the best event," Larson says. "And to be a part of it was awesome. Would have loved to have done better. But you know, that's life. That's racing. it doesn't always go perfect or how you draw it up to be."
As for his day job? Someday Larson hopes to return to race at Road America, in a NASCAR Cup car.
"And Road America always, you know the crowd there. It's such a historic venue," Larson says. "It was always great. So yes, we were all bummed that it didn't work out where we could go there again the last couple years. But I don't think that door has ever been shut, you know, fully. So I definitely think there is a high probability that we'll get NASCAR. Whether it be you know Xfinity or hopefully Cup you know back there again because I mean that place, there would be a ton of people there. So it was always fun."