LARSON: $110.000 CONQUERER AT PERTH MOTORPLEX

All photography by Peter Roebuck.

Maddington Toyota Sprintcar Series media release, December 31, 2025

He came….he saw…and once again he conquered.

That is the simplest way to sum up Kyle Larson’s raid on Australian Sprintcar racing when he won the finale of High Limit International: Perth at the Perth Motorplex on Tuesday night, December 30, taking the $110,000 bounty.

This is on the back of his win in the inaugural event that paid $100,000 to win, one year earlier.

This time, in front of another packed house, showcasing Australia’s best speedway venue, Larson crossed the line first in the 35-lap feature race from local hero and defending Maddington Toyota Sprintcar Series Champion Dayne Kingshott, while another American, Buddy Kofoid, took third.

Similar to last year’s campaign, Larson started slowly, with a 17th in the Sunday night feature race, before a fifth on Monday night, but when it counted, he was there for the taking.

He started the feature race from position four after earlier winning his heat race, giving him a great platform to strike in the #1K supplied by local outfit, Jason Pryde Motorsport.

Larson dropped from third to fourth on lap seven and stayed there for about seven laps before alternating between the two for a few moments.

With 15 laps in the books, Ryan Lancaster blew a tyre and national champion James McFadden had a broken front end, both heading to the work area, but were unable to resume the fight.

On the restart Larson pounced, taking the lead from Kofoid and Kingshott, holding the position until the checkers.

 Kingshott put in a massive drive in the Krikke Motorsport W2 over the whole three nights.

 He locked himself into the top four the night before and went from p4 to second in the Dash, setting up the front row start, on the outside of Kofoid for the final.

Kingshott led for the first first seven laps then dropped to second for a handful of circulations and even further back, to third.

His night nearly came to an end with four laps remaining as American Rico Abreu slowed dramatically on the back straight with mechanical failure, and Kingshott had nowhere to go.

 An open red light was the saviour as all teams headed to the work area for a fuel stop.

 Despite the car looking beat up, Kingshott threw everything at Larson on the restart and in the run to the checkers, nearly pulled off a massive upset.

While he would have been gutted not to win, many believe it was one of his best drives ever.

 Kofoid was also locked into the final night dash and set up his pole position with a win in the Dash.

 He surrendered the front spot to Kingshott early on before taking the lead and working his way through lapped traffic.

 The driver of the Pigdon Racing Team #U7 lost ground on about lap 15, sitting back in fourth before claiming the final podium placing late.

 American Cole Macedo was fourth after starting from p5, Queenslander Luke Oldfield was fifth (after starting p11), ahead of Carson Macedo (sixth from p9), Tasmanian Jock Goodyer (seventh from p6), Callum Williamson (eighth from p8), Daniel Harding (ninth from p15), Americans Brock Zearfoss (10th from p10), Brad Sweet (11th from p7) and Aaron Reutzel (12th from p16).

Local driver Kris Coyle, who fronted with a new car built overnight after a massive crash in an incident with Kerry Madsen in pits bend, that saw his fuel cell clear the safety fence, was 13th after starting from p17.

Others to complete the journey were Madsen (14th from p14), American Xavier Doney (15th from p23), Kaiden Manders (16th from p21), Aaron Chircop (17th from p26) and Jason Kendrick (18th from p22).

American Corey Day, who took a win and a fourth in the first two nights, was a DNF after blowing a right rear tyre late in the race when running second.

He joined fellow countryman Abreu and Justin Whittall on the infield as the richest sprintcar race in Australian history played out.

The first casualty was Brad Maiolo who spun at the start of the race, rejoining at the rear before heading infield a few moments later.

There will be two more rounds of the Maddington Toyota Sprintcar Series later this week.

The first being the Merger Contracting Sprintcar Muster at the Perth Motorplex on Friday, January 2, followed by the only appearance at Bunbury Speedway this Saturday, January 3.

Both rounds, as well as two more rounds at the Perth Motorplex the following Friday and Saturday nights, will be part of the Speedweek series.

The overall winner of Speedweek will receive $10,000 from a $30,000 prize purse that goes to the top 15 overall – thanks to $20,000 from Speedway Australia, $5000 from the Sprintcar Entrants Group and $5000 from the Perth Motorplex.

Results:

Heat 1: 1st Kyle Larson, 2nd Carson Macedo, 3rd Taylor Milling, 4th Kris Coyle, 5th Matt Cross, 6th Myles Bolger, 7th Kaiden Manders, 8th Mikey Green, 9th AJ Nash, 10th Justin Whittall.

Heat 2: 1st Brad Sweet, 2nd Brock Zearfoss, 3rd Kerry Madsen, 4th Rico Abreu, 5th Jason Kendrick, 6th Ryan Lancaster, 7th Chad Pittard, 8th Kodi Clayden, 9th Jye McKenzie.

Heat 3: 1st Cole Macedo, 2nd Luke Oldfield, 3rd Daniel Harding, 4th Brad Maiolo, 5th Xavier Doney, 6th Chris Harrison, 7th Harrison Peet. DNF: Andrew Priolo.

Heat 4: 1st Callum Williamson, 2nd James McFadden, 3rd Aaron Reutzel, 4th Jack Williamson, 5th Cameron McKenzie, 6th Jaydee Dack, 7th Tim King, 8th Aaron Chircop.

Dash: 1st Buddy Kofoid, 2nd Dayne Kingshott, 3rd Corey Day, 4th Kyle Larson, 5th Cole Macedo, 6th Jock Goodyer, 7th Brad Sweet, 8th Callum Williamson.

B Main: 1st Kaiden Manders, 2nd Jason Kendrick, 3rd Xavier Doney, 4th Justin Whittall, 5th Ryan Lancaster, 6th AJ Nash, 7th Andrew Priolo, 8th Jaydee Dack, 9th Chris Harrison, 10th Mikey Green, 11th Chad Pittard, 12th Tim King, 13th Aaron Chircop, 14th Jye McKenzie, 15th Kodi Clayden, 16th Myles Bolger, 17th Harrison Peet, 18th Cameron McKenzie. DNF: Matt Cross, Daniel Keen. DNS: James Inglis.

Final: 1st Kyle Larson, 2nd Dayne Kingshott, 3rd Buddy Kofoid, 4th Cole Macedo, 5th Luke Oldfield, 6th Carson Macedo, 7th Jock Goodyer, 8th Callum Williamson, 9th Daniel Harding, 10th Brock Zearfoss, 11th Brad Sweet, 12th Aaron Reutzel, 13th Kris Coyle, 14th Kerry Madsen, 15th Xavier Doney, 16th Kaiden Manders, 17th Aaron Chircop, 18th Jason Kendrick. DNF: Corey Day, Rico Abreu, Justin Whittall, James McFadden, Ryan Lancaster and Brad Maiolo.