Four points races remain in the Interstate Batteries High Limit Racing championship chase, and Rico Abreu has positioned himself to finish the job for the second straight season.

This time, he doesn’t even need a victory to seal the deal.

With an advantage of 116 points over Giovanni Scelzi and 117 over Aaron Reutzel, Abreu heads into the final stretch — Oct. 9-10 at Lakeside Speedway and Oct. 16-17 at Texas Motor Speedway — needing 192 more points to guarantee the championship.

Two 12th-place finishes and two 13ths would meet that requirement, regardless of what his challengers accomplish. Even if Abreu finishes last — 25 points — one night, he can still get there with, say, two ninth-place finishes and an eighth-place run.

That leaves Scelzi and Reutzel needing both a stellar closing stretch and a significant break in the consistency Abreu has established.

Since finishing 17th and 22nd at Santa Maria and Tulare on Aug. 20-21, Abreu has finished outside the top 10 just once in 19 races — a 16th-place finish Sept. 18 at Wheatland. He’s collected four victories and seven podium finishes during that stretch, turning a 69-point deficit to Reutzel into a 117-point advantage.

“I feel like I’ve been really tight on things and have been really, really close with the team. Just in the thick of it with my team,” Abreu said following his Sept. 26 victory in Eldora Speedway’s 4-Crown Nationals. “And understanding the process of everything, getting really consistent with our movements each night. That’s been a real turning point for us.

“We haven’t ran outside the top-five or top-10. Really consistent. Just keeping really close with (crew chief) Ricky (Warner) to the pulse of everything. We’re just going to keep chipping away.”

Abreu leads the standings with 2,983 points. Scelzi has 2,867, with Reutzel another point behind at 2,866.

With 77 points available for a victory, Scelzi can reach a maximum of 3,175 by sweeping the remaining races. Reutzel’s ceiling is 3,174.

Abreu’s 192-point target would bring him to 3,175, guaranteeing at least a tie with Scelzi. Abreu would prevail on the first championship tiebreaker, A-main victories: He already has eight, while Scelzi could finish with no more than five.

Reutzel, who already has 10 victories, holds the advantage over Abreu in a points tie.

For Scelzi, the assignment is to outscore Abreu by at least 117 points over the final four races. Reutzel also needs to gain at least 117, though that would bring him into a championship-winning tie rather than an outright points lead.

Even repeating his lowest-scoring four-race stretch of the season would leave Abreu hard to overthrow. His finishes of seventh and 23rd on July 25-26 at Port Royal, followed by 17th and 22nd in California, totaled 156 points.

If he matches that output over the final four races, Scelzi and Reutzel would each need at least 273 points to wrest away the championship. A win, two third-place finishes and a sixth would reach that threshold, giving Scelzi the title by one point or Reutzel the championship on the victories tiebreaker.

If Abreu finishes 10th in all four races, he would collect 212 points and secure the title even if one challenger sweeps every remaining event.

Even four 13th-place finishes, worth 188 points, would leave only a narrow opening. In that scenario, Scelzi would need all four victories to pass Abreu. Reutzel would need either four wins or three wins and a runner-up finish, with the latter producing a points tie that Reutzel would win.

Their recent results underscore the challenge.

Over the same 19-race stretch in which Abreu has recorded one finish outside the top 10, Reutzel has eight, alongside two victories and six podiums. Scelzi has finished outside the top 10 five times and earned five podiums without a victory.

Last October’s results at the remaining tracks also favor Abreu. He finished ninth and third at Lakeside before sweeping the Texas finale weekend. Repeating those finishes under High Limit's points scale would earn him 277 points — comfortably above his clinching requirement.

Reutzel finished second and fourth at Lakeside last year, then sixth and eighth at Texas. Scelzi finished 10th and 11th at Lakeside and third and fifth at Texas while substituting for the injured Tyler Courtney at Clauson-Marshall Racing before joining Spire Motorsports this year.

For Abreu, the closing task is clear: Maintain enough of the consistency that built his advantage, and the championship is his.

2026 High Limit Racing Points Breakdown