Things will look quite different for Kasey Kahne as he returns full-time with Kubota High Limit Racing in 2025, and it’s in a good way.

After winning six-straight national championships with Brad Sweet on the NAPA Auto Parts No. 49, renowned crew chief Eric Prutzman will move one trailer over to wrench on the Kahne Screen Print, HendrickCars.com No. 9 – while also assuming the Team Manager role to oversee all of Kasey Kahne Racing’s Mooresville, NC shop.

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The new pairing has seven nights of racing under their belts between the World Finals at Charlotte and DIRTcar Nationals at Volusia with the highlight coming in a top-five finish against the World of Outlaws. As the Kubota High Limit Racing campaign comes around the corner, it’s all about getting familiar with this new dynamic for the No. 9 camp.

“Adding Eric has been great because he prepares such a nice car and builds a team for the whole year,” Kahne said of his new crew chief. “That’s something that we’ve lacked for a few years, having both cars fully prepared when the new season starts. As far as working together at the track through the night, I think it’ll be a learning process for both of us. I know that the success he and Brad achieved will help in the long-term, but I also know that Brad and I are very different drivers. I think it can work well, but it will be a unique combination that we’ll have to adjust to.”

For the better part of the last decade, Prutzman – who grew up in the fierce land of the PA Posse – has been revered as one of the top crew chiefs in all of Sprint Car Racing. Before moving to Kasey Kahne Racing in 2017, he honed his craft under the tutelage of legends like Ricky Warner and Jimmy Carr when he was part of four World of Outlaws championships on the Tony Stewart Racing No. 15 driven by Donny Schatz.

Once connected with Brad Sweet in 2018, the Hall of Fame resume started to grow quickly. Over seven seasons with “The Big Cat,” Prutzman enjoyed the glory of 74 World of Outlaws wins, 10 High Limit wins, a Knoxville Nationals title, a Kings Royal crown, and of course those six-straight titles with Outlaw rings from 2019-23 then High Limit bling in 2024.

For Kahne, who has been on the verge of his elusive first-career win with a National Sprint Car Series for years, he hopes Prutzman’s knowledge will elevate the #9 program to new heights in 2025.

“I think we have the potential to become way more consistent,” he noted. “I know that it’s not as easy I would hope it will be and it will take some time, but I think our results, our consistency as a whole, our qualifying performance, it can all improve from where it has been in the past.”

One of the hallmarks of the 2025 Kubota High Limit Racing schedule for Kahne is a return home to Washington’s Skagit Speedway for the $102,626-to-win Skagit Nationals on August 28-30 – the richest-paying Sprint Car race ever held on the west coast. The Enumclaw, WA native has claimed six top-10 finishes in his last nine starts at the track and has seen it blossom over the decades since he started attending as a young boy.

“Skagit is always near the top of what tracks I’m most excited for each year,” he added. “I can think back to when I was young at the Dirt Cup or the World of Outlaws weekend, and the place was always packed. That was 30+ years ago when I was little, and the fans are still going above and beyond to support the track. It’s been awesome to see Kevin Rudeen and everyone involved at Skagit making the place bigger and better.”

A full-time 60-race run with Kubota High Limit Racing isn’t the only thing on Kahne’s agenda in 2025, however. The added freedom and breaks in the schedule will allow the 33-time NASCAR winner – 18 of which came in the premier Cup Series – to experience a return to the NASCAR Xfinity Series at Rockingham Speedway on Saturday, April 19.

“I am really looking forward to that weekend, I already can’t wait for it to be here,” said Kahne, who will drive a #33 Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing. “I’m glad I got to go out to Rockingham and do that test, I had a blast from the first lap. For so many years that section of the sport was my whole life, so it felt cool to come back again. That’s one of the things I love about the High Limit schedule and how it allows us to go do other things with our lives, whether that’s racing other cars or tracks, a family vacation, or just some time off.”

For fans who have perhaps never been able to meet or see Kahne race in person yet, he’ll be visiting 10 tracks for the first time in his career this year with Kubota High Limit Racing. Those venues include Bakersfield Speedway at Kevin Harvick’s Kern Raceway (CA), Central Arizona Speedway (AZ), Vado Speedway Park (NM), Route 66 Motor Speedway (TX), Dodge City Raceway Park (KS), Texarkana 67 Speedway (AR), Ransomville Speedway (NY), 141 Speedway (WI), Red Cedar Speedway (WI), and Florence Speedway (KY).

Kahne’s 2025 campaign with Kubota High Limit Racing will begin at Las Vegas Motor Speedway with a two-day event on March 13 and 15. The 60-race tour will conclude with All-In Championship Weekend at Texas Motor Speedway on October 17 and 18. Tickets for select events are now available here.

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