Kyle Larson was recently crowned the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series champion. He won it with a two-tire call on an overtime restart.
In NASCAR, there’s a 10-race playoff format across four rounds. Four of the sixteen playoff drivers are eliminated every three races (each round). In the championship race, the highest finisher of the remaining four drivers wins the title. And everyone hates it.
Larson is also a co-owner of the High Limit Series. He has confirmed that a similar format will not be coming to sprint car racing.
Beyond that, Larson also hinted that NASCAR will be changing the playoff format heading into 2026. There’s been a lot of discussion regarding the format for the upcoming season. NASCAR is exploring all options, even removing the playoffs entirely.
NASCAR is ready to change the playoff format for 2026
“I would hope and I’m pretty certain that will never happen in sprint car racing,” Kyle Larson stated of a possible one-race championship finale via the High Limit Room podcast.
“Even the late model playoffs, I think is better than what we have in NASCAR. But still, I don’t know, it’s just not fair or not the fairest way. To me it doesn’t really add that much excitement, at all, to a dirt season.”
The Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series recently added a playoff format.
“No. There will no playoff or winner take-all sort of thing. Hopefully, even in NASCAR, I think we’re done with the winner take-all, it sounds like.”
“Fans don’t have to worry about that. I don’t want to keep going on because I’ll get myself in trouble talking about it.”
The hosts joked that High Limit would add stage breaks.
Larson responded, “Knowing Brad, we all know there will be no stage breaks. Even the amount it takes to spin the wheel, he hates.”
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