Saturday afternoon an announcement came from the High Limit Sprint Car Series and FloRacing that the All Star Circuit of Champions Sprint Car Series would return in 2025 after a year hiatus. Fremont Speedway’s Rich Farmer will operate that series and all races will be streamed live on FloRacing.
Hours later, FAST on Dirt promoter Aaron Fry responded to the news.
The Facebook post read:
In light of today’s announcement, we feel we need to clarify where we stand in the state of the industry for 2025
At the conclusion of the 2023 season, we were contacted by the High Limit organization and asked to operate Ohio Sprint Speedweek under the FAST banner for 2024.
After being the first Speedweek to run 9 races in 9 nights at 9 different tracks, discussions began to make the purses bigger and better in 2025. Almost all tracks were back on board with us.
In late October, the High Limit organization contacted me and asked me to dissolve the FAST series. I (Aaron Fry) was offered a position in the rebirth of the All Stars, as the race director under Rich Farmer.
After spending seven years building the FAST series into a true touring regional series, I chose to decline their offer and continue to own and operate FAST. We plan to move confidently forward in 2025 and beyond. We have more than 20 races already scheduled and several more in negotiations.
Ultimately, it will be up to the Ohio race tracks to decide the fate of Speedweek. As for the competition in Ohio, keep in mind the All Stars and FAST coexisted for many years.
We look forward to seeing everyone in 2025. A big thank you to the many people who have reached out inquiring as to what went down. Also, thanks to all the tracks, teams, race fans and our marketing partners who have faithfully stood.alongside us.”
As race fans, and media covering the sport, we hope that both series can co-exist, as was the case for many years. If that can be accomplished, race fans, race team and race track owners across the region could see the strongest field of sprint cars racing across the region in 2025.
A huge void was left when High Limit purchased the All Stars after the 2023 season leaving nearly all Ohio tracks without races for 2024. Aaron Fry and his team at FAST on Dirt organized an Ohio Sprint Speedweek, put together a streaming package for the week, split between FloRacing and Dirtvision, and kept the Ohio Sprint Speedweek tradition alive. We certainly hope that both sanctioning bodies will work together to keep Ohio Sprint Speedweek going and growing.
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