He needs to race a national tour.

*Insert any Sprint Car team with an open seat* should hire him.

Put him on Kubota High Limit Racing. No, make him a World of Outlaw!

Sprint Car social media has loved taking swings at what Ryan Timms should do for the 2026 season. 

The 18-year-old's stock has, rightfully so, soared to dreamy heights in this dazzling, wonderstuck year with Rapid City, S.D., car owner Shane Liebig that's accentuated by dominant and historic victories at the Knoxville Nationals and Port Royal Speedway's Tuscarora 50, plus a track title at Brandon, S.D.'s Huset's Speedway.

His 18 total victories across 410 and 360 competition are tied with Rico Abreu for most nationally, too.

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So what might next year look like for Timms? Could a nationally touring team with an open seat lure him away? Or with Liebig, could he embark on maiden national campaigns with High Limit or the World of Outlaws? Or more of the same as 2025? Timms has a strong idea of what's next.

"We haven't talked specifics ... but we'll pretty much do the same thing we did this year — Knoxville and Huset's points I would say," said Timms, who also finished fifth in the Knoxville 410 track standings. "Hopefully we can get out to race more, more of a variety of different racetracks when we're not doing those."

More importantly, Timms is staying put with Liebig. While Timms admits "it's cool definitely to have your name thrown out (by) people thinking you should go wherever," he's just as committed to the blue-collar car owner as Liebig is toward him.

Nearing the one-year mark of their partnership, one that began with a flourish when Timms finished runner-up in High Limit action last Oct. 8 at I-70 Motorsports Park, they're already envisioning the dynamic well beyond next year.

"I know what's best for me, or I have a good idea what's best for me. And I feel like it's kind of a gut feeling, what you should do. I think it would be a really, really silly decision to leave this team," said Timms, who joined Doug Wolfgang (1984, '85) and Kenny Weld (1973) as the only drivers to win the Knoxville Nationals and Tuscarora 50 in the same season. "I love racing with these guys."

With already enough on his plate as the owner of West River Trailer Sales and owner-crew chief of his No. 10 team, Liebig isn't in a position to take Timms on the road full-time ... not yet, at least. 

"I am not capable because I have businesses and kids and grandkids," Liebig said Aug. 9 following the team's Knoxville Nationals victory. "He will be ready. We're not quite there yet. We will probably run a similar schedule next year: all of Knoxville, all of Huset's, Jackson (Motorplex in Minnesota) and wherever else. We'll start in Florida (Feb. 4-7 for the WoO-sanctioned DIRTcar Nationals) and end in Charlotte (at the World Finals).

"I'll say a couple years, a couple years. Definitely not next year. Maybe the year after" Liebig and team will consider turning Timms loose on a national series full-time.

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Before that happens, Timms "would like to race more in Pennsylvania, just to get better" in the Keystone State, which this year had 20 national series events scheduled between High Limit and WoO, the most of any state.

"It's really tough local racing out here," Timms said Sunday at quarter-mile Path Valley Speedway Park in Spring Run, Pa. "It'd be really good for us to get out here and race more. The plan is to pick and choose, and do what we want and race where we want."

The breakdown of Timms's 15 victories this year in the 410 goes like this: Nine are during weekly action at 3/8-mile Huset's and half-mile Knoxville, three are with the Midwest Sprint Touring Series at Huset's and Jackson, two are vs. national tours — both being the Knoxville Nationals and Tuscarora 50 — and then one IRA victory the Jackson Nationals. All of those victories are on Midwest black dirt, too.

Developing into a more seasoned racer who's comfortable on all kinds of regionally-distinct soils is Timms's focus for 2026. This year, he started the season in Florida at Volusia Speedway Park — which he'll do again next year — before starting 2025 with High Limit out west.

To end 2025, he'll enter the final five High Limit events at Lakeside Speedway on Oct. 10-11, Lucas Oil Speedway on Oct. 15 and Texas Motor Speedway on Oct. 17-18 — all events he feels he can win.

Trips of that nature, along with extended stays in and around Pennsylvania like this weekend's National Open for his third- and fourth-ever races at tricky Williams Grove Speedway, figures to prepare him for a possible touring campaign in 2027.

"Maybe," Timms said when asked if he'll reconsider following a national tour this time next year while also saying "it's just a lot of learning. Every time we go somewhere, we do learn, even if it's a bad run. It all comes together in the end. It all happens for a reason."

As it currently stands, which national tour entices Timms more? High Limit or the World of Outlaws? It's likely not a fair, or even pertinent question for Timms at this juncture, but it's one worth asking.

"It's really hard ... there's just so many, when you break it down, pros and cons to either one," Timms said. "Both have treated us really well. I like both series. Both are equally as competitive, I think. It's a really tough decision. But that's a year or two from being decided."