Rico Abreu will make his 2026 racing debut for Tony Stewart Racing Thursday at The Dirt Track at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
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The 2026 High Limit Racing Series (High Limit Racing) season gets underway in just over a week, and Tony Stewart/Curb-Agajanian Racing (TSR) is pleased to announce its partner lineup and unveil a fresh look for the 2025 High Limit Racing champion, Rico Abreu. Kicking off this year’s campaign with the SugarBee® Blackjack Bash at Las Vegas Motor Speedway Dirt Track Thursday through March 14, Abreu and the No. 24 team will begin their chase of a second consecutive High Limit Racing title.
Returning for a seventh year, Carquest, an American automotive parts distribution network owned and operated by Advance through over 680 independent retailers, will support St. Helena, California’s Abreu as a primary partner, setting aim on success from coast-to-coast in 2026 and ultimately a High Limit Racing championship.
Joining TSR for the 2026 campaign will be head of the class apple brand, SugarBee® Apple.
Continuing a 16-year relationship with the Brownsburg-based motorsports operation, Curb-Agajanian Racing will again partner with TSR as a co-entrant for Abreu. Partnering in 2010 for the first time, Curb-Agajanian Racing, Curb Records and TSR own a longstanding tradition of monumental success, acquiring not only victories but seven Knoxville Nationals championships, six World of Outlaws championships and one High Limit Racing championship.
Waste Connections will also continue its relationship with Abreu into his next chapter as the driver of the TSR House Car in 2026.
Abreu’s partnership with Arc-Zone.com will also continue into 2026 as he begins a new chapter in his career with TSR.
TSR and Abreu are also proud to welcome innovative marketing and communications partner Martin One Source (MOS) back for its second season.
Returning for the 2026 season, TSR is pleased to welcome Elliott’s Custom Trailers and Carts (Elliott’s) back to its partnership lineup.
TSR is also proud to welcome back Mobil 1.
Additionally, Abreu and TSR are proud to work with FloRacing, Mesilla Valley Transportation, Hoosier Tire, Pacific Boring, Swan Island, Jaxon’s Superheroes Foundation and several other partners again in 2026.
Abreu will commence the 2026 season in Las Vegas with the High Limit Racing Series Thursday through March 14. The following week, the team and series will move on to Central Arizona Speedway in Casa Grande, Arizona, March 19-21. For those who can’t make the journey to the West coast this month, FloRacing.com will provide coverage of every lap. For more information regarding FloRacing, please visit floracing.com
O’Neal continues hot streak
Hudson O’Neal of Hope took over the lead on Lap 37 after race-long leader Brandon Overton suffered a left rear flat tire, and he went on to lead the rest of the way in winning the $25,000 Wieland Winternationals 50-lap feature Feb. 28th at Ocala Speedway in Ocala, Florida.
It was O’Neal’s second straight win at Ocala. He led Devin Moran, Tim McCreadie, Jonathan Davenport and Drake Troutman across the finish line.
Overton took the lead the start of the race, with O’Neal, Troutman and Brandon Sheppard trailing. Overton was looking for his first Lucas Oil win since last May at Circle City in Indiana maintained a two-to-three car-length lead as the top four were on the same straightaway for a good portion of the first 15 laps of the race.
The top four remained the same until Overton slowed during a caution flag with a flat left rear tire which sent him to the Heartbeat Hot Sauce Hot Pit. O’Neal then inherited the lead with Sheppard moving by Troutman for third on Lap 37.
Sheppard then ran in second until he had right rear tire go down with 40 laps scored. Moran then picked up the second spot as he and the sixth-place starting McCreadie tried to track down O’Neal in the last five laps, but O’Neal widened his lead to 1.474 seconds at the finish for his nation-leading seventh win of the season.
In Lucas Oil Victory Lane for the 37th time in his career, the 25-year-old third-generation racer will lead the series points heading to Golden Isles Speedway in Georgia next week.
“I’m speechless right now. I don’t even know what to say. What an amazing start to the year for this SSI Motorsports Team, and we have to give credit where credit is due to Kevin Rumley and Longhorn Chassis, who have helped us some. It’s so awesome to be in this situation I am, and when I crossed the finish line, the first thing that came to my mind was “speechless.” I just try to give glory to God and just do the best that we can every day. It’s so awesome to be in this situation. It wouldn’t be possible with all of your fans, without these amazing race tracks and the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series for giving us a great place to race,” said O’Neal, who is in his eighth year with the series.
“Even though we had a lot of rain yesterday, and it was kind of uncertain today, Bubba and everybody here at Ocala Speedway worked their tails off to give us the best race track that they could, and it turned out to be pretty good.”
James Essex writes a motorsports notebook for The Republic. Send comments to sports@therepublic.com
