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Two weeks after Chase Brisco said he stopped driving Sprint Cars because he didn’t want to get hurt, the Indiana native announced at Iowa Speedway Saturday that he has become a team owner in the Interstate Batteries High Limit Racing, a wing Sprint Car Series owned by Kyle Larson and Larson’s brother-in-law Brad Sweet. Brisco said he purchased Brent Marks Racing and renamed it Chase Briscoe Racing. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver said owning a Sprint Car team on a national tour had been a childhood dream of his, “ever since I was … going to the racetrack and seeing Tony Stewart Racing or Kasey Kahne Racing.” Brisco said the announcement culminated six months of work. Marks said they wanted to have the deal done before the Aug. 12-15 Knoxville (Iowa) Nationals. “I’d be lying if I said my heart’s still not in the non-wing side, just growing up in Indiana, but if you’re going to be involved in Sprint Car racing and it be a viable business, you have to be on the wing Sprint Car tour,” Brisco said. “When you look at what High Limit’s doing with the TV deal … and then you just throw in the Charter, the franchise thing that they’re doing, there’s just a lot of growth that’s still there.” Marks, who met Briscoe in person for the first time at Iowa Speedway, described selling his team to Briscoe as a “new chapter” in his career and his life. “When Chase reached out about doing this (in a text), I’ll be honest with you, I thought it was kind of a joke at first, but once we started talking and I (saw) how serious he was about this … I (thought) this is the right opportunity for me to take the next step in my career,” Marks said. “I feel like we have a lot of similarities in our personalities and the way we want to do things. That was really important to me because this is a big step in my life. I still want to drive and race the car, but I still want to manage it. I still want to run it the way I want to run it, and I feel like I can grow this organization into a championship caliber team. I feel like we’re close now, but we just can’t get over that hurdle.” Marks believes the opportunities provided by Briscoe will allow the team to clear that hurdle. Briscoe said he began thinking seriously about acquiring a Sprint Car team after Spire Motorsports purchased one. “I just feel (Jeff) Dickerson’s always been kind of ahead of the curve on a lot of that kind of stuff, so I talked to him kind of right after he’d bought that one, and then just started trying to make phone calls,” Briscoe said. “Truthfully, Brent was probably the last person I called because I thought he would never sell because it was their own family operation.” The team will remain in Marks’ hometown, Myerstown, Pennsylvania, for at least two years. A North Carolina native, Deb Williams is an award-winning motorsports journalist who is in her fourth decade covering auto racing. In addition to covering the sport for United Press International, she has written motorsports articles for several newspapers, magazines and websites including espnW.com, USA Today, and The Charlotte Observer. Her awards include the American Motorsports Media Award of Excellence, two-time National Motorsports Press Association writer of the year, and two-time recipient of the Russ Catlin award. She also has won an award in the North Carolina Press Association’s sports feature category. During her career, Deb has been managing editor of GT Motorsports magazine and was with Winston Cup Scene and NASCAR Winston Cup Scene for 18 years, serving as the publication’s editor for 10 years. In 2024 she was inducted into the NMPA Hall of Fame.