Brad Sweet
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Oct 26, 2026
Justin FiedlerHOST
There's not really any other way to say it, but this team was disappointing in 2026.
Justin FiedlerHOST
This car with Brad Sweet went from winning championships and a lot of races to winless and well down the championship order.
Justin FiedlerHOST
Now, obviously, this wasn't the same team Sweet had, you know, all new crew guys, obviously a different driver.
Justin FiedlerHOST
And that was even if the cars were still coming out of that same KKR shop.
Justin FiedlerHOST
He came over to KKR around the time the 49 crew was released at Knoxville in 2025, and this was his first time really leading a real 410 sprint car deal.
Justin FiedlerHOST
Back in October, he said at KKR, Pursley should have everything he needs to win as long as a good crew chief can be secure.
Justin FiedlerHOST
So you had a driver in his first year at KKR in a first time sprint car crew chief stepping into the car that Brad Sweet won with.
Justin FiedlerHOST
You know, they often say you don't maybe maybe you don't want to be the guy after the guy.
Regional RyeHOST
They are going to be racing for the winner for 10K, but the Trophy K champion I think is getting 30K.
Regional RyeHOST
So super cool to see NARC in the West Coast and Brad Sweet, Flo, and everybody else that's got a hand in that.
Regional RyeHOST
Super duper cool.
Regional RyeHOST
Shout out to them for all their hard work in giving us some awesome results.
Regional RyeHOST
I think they have a lot of different, uh, drivers that win the Jason Johnson Classic.
Regional RyeHOST
It's got kind of a different, uh, bunch of guys on there, David Gravel, James McFadden, Brad Sweet, Jacob Allen, Rico, and Sheldon, so...
Regional RyeHOST
But no driver has won it twice.
Regional RyeHOST
It is the 39th running of the Short Track Nationals.
Regional RyeHOST
So not a bad series.
Regional RyeHOST
There was obviously a huge, huge question on how it was going to operate after Brad Sweet, Flow Racing, and some money have come in.
Regional RyeHOST
The Rudins, I think, also came into the picture to help.
Regional RyeHOST
as well with NARC.
Regional RyeHOST
And they had a great Gold Cup this year, which I would like to go out on record and say looked like their most prestigious event.
Regional RyeHOST
They had about 53 cars at the Super Dirt Cup.
Regional RyeHOST
and obviously that was won by Brad Sweet.
Regional RyeHOST
He won the big prize night.
Justin FiedlerHOST
I saw somewhere that this makes Rico only the seventh driver in history to go back to back as a national sprint car series champion.
Justin FiedlerHOST
He joined Steve Kinzer, Sammy Swindell, Donnie Schatz, Jason Myers, Brad Sweet and David Gravel to do that.
Justin FiedlerHOST
Things nearly got away from them after the snafu at Lakeside, but this veteran group, they bounced back, did what they had to do to secure title number two.
Justin FiedlerHOST
Looking at the stats, not as many wins this year for Rico, but more top fives and more top tens and an average position that was about a half spot better.
Steve PostHOST
He really, truly is.
Steve PostHOST
He's kind of taken a little bit of a different angle on things when Kyle Larson and Brad Sweet took over Silver Dollar.
Steve PostHOST
He's their partner, and he's the general manager, runs the racetrack out there.
Steve PostHOST
So the racing is not nearly as much.
Justin FiedlerHOST
The big one, though, for him came at Eldora in July during King's Royal Week.
Justin FiedlerHOST
He fractured his foot, needed surgery, and at the time, he and Brad Sweet and Sunshine were the top three in the high limit standings.
Justin FiedlerHOST
The 87 then took that medical provisional at Lernerville, and then Sanders drove it through the West Coast Swing and won at Placerville.
Justin FiedlerHOST
All right, so didn't get back in the car until the Tuscarora 50 in September.
Justin FiedlerHOST
But I also said, you know, if I'm Holmes, I don't know why you'd walk away from Book and crew chief Sean Strasbach.
Justin FiedlerHOST
Interestingly enough, one of the cars that was brought up when discussed this was maybe Casey Kane replacing Days and Pursley with Holmes, which would be odd given Holmes replaced Pursley when he left Book for KKR.
Justin FiedlerHOST
Pursley has had a disappointing season in the KKR9, replacing Brad Sweet after his retirement.
Justin FiedlerHOST
You know, they say you don't want to be the guy after the guy that appears to be at least partly coming true here.
Regional RyeHOST
Guys that have gone left and then come back.
Regional RyeHOST
David Gravel, Brad Sweet, Rico.
Regional RyeHOST
Some of these guys had that opportunity.
Regional RyeHOST
It didn't transfer over to the peak, which is Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart, Kyle Larson.
Kasey KahneGUEST
Um, I think looking at it a little differently as well.
Kasey KahneGUEST
And, you know, Brad Sweet was KKR for a lot, a lot of years there and ran so well, so there was always...
Kasey KahneGUEST
You always wanna do some of the things he's doing.
Kasey KahneGUEST
But as time went on, I realized, like, it's, has a lot to do with how he drives.
Adam GataGUEST
I think Reitzel has one.
Adam GataGUEST
I believe KKR has one through Brad Sweet's run.
Adam GataGUEST
So the nine car has a charter.
Adam GataGUEST
A few of the other ones and their agreement now, their agreement is the top.