NASCAR star Kyle Larson is prepared to concentrate on the

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP)– Kyle Larson stated he would turn his attention to the Indianapolis 500, and a 2nd fracture at racing immortality, the minute he stepped out of his car following the NASCAR Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway on Sunday.The only problem

with that? He wasn’t due for practice at Indianapolis Motor Speedway till Tuesday.Advertisement A lot of time to squeeze in another race.So even as Larson was indulging in the glow of a 3rd Cup Series win of the season while

flying to Indianapolis on Sunday night, he wasn’t rather all set to fully concentrate on the 500. The strategy was to hop in an automobile and drive to Kokomo, Indiana, for a sprint vehicle race on Monday night, and just then turn his focus to the”Greatest Spectacle in Racing.””He just goes and goes and goes,” marveled Chad Knaus, the vice president of competition at Hendrick Motorsports, which fields his No. 5 car in the Cup Series and is working with Arrow McLaren to field Larson’s vehicle for the Indy 500. The truth is that Larson would rather be behind the wheel of a race cars and truck than behind a television screen, or a bar, or just about anywhere else. His concern every year may be the Cup Series, and winning a second champion, however that leaves a lot of open dates on the schedule where he can spray in an Xfinity Series race, or Truck Series race, or run at a regional dirt track.Advertisement He occurred to do that Friday night at Lakeside Speedway, just down the road from Kansas Speedway, where his High Limitation Racing series was running.

Larson nearly had a sprint cars and truck land in his lap during a scary wreck that wrecked his cars and truck. But he merely shrugged it off as part of racing, and he was back at the track the next morning.”The thing that I’ve constantly been impressed with Kyle since he showed up at Hendrick Motorsports is that he is unfazed,”Knaus said.

“Like, nothing gets under his skin. He does not get wound up. He doesn’t get emotional about possibly something that takes place on the race track. He doesn’t get psychological and bring weight on his shoulders. “He simply rolls with it,”Knaus said, “and he goes and he continues to drive. “That preternaturally placid temperament was stretched nearly to a snapping point at last year’s Indy 500, though.Advertisement Larson was taking his first shot at”

the Double,”attempting to run every lap of the 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 in Charlotte the very same day Memorial Day weekend.

Many have actually attempted

but only Tony Stewart in 1999 has actually handled to pull it off.But while Larson was able to overcome every problem lobbed at him on the track– aside from a speeding penalty on pit road in the 500 that took him out of contention for the win– he was powerless when it came

to handling the weather.He does not like being powerless.On race day, rain swept through Indianapolis Motor Speedway and soaked the track, leaving Larson to wait in Fuel Street to see whether the race would even take place that Sunday. And if it did take place, would he remain and run the 500 or be forced to withdraw so

that he might head to Charlotte and meet his obligations in the Cup Series race that night?Advertisement He remained and ran every lap of the Indy 500, and was chosen rookie of the year later. However the delay kept him from beginning the Coca-Cola 600, and by the time his helicopter-plane-helicopter trip from Indiana to North Carolina had actually transferred him at the track, more rain in Charlotte

kept him from ever climbing up into his car there and finishing a lap. “Sadly once Mother Nature stepped in,”Knaus stated,”we didn’t have a great deal that we could do.”The long-range projection for the Indianapolis 500 looks much better this year.And as soon as again, Larson is heading into maybe the busiest month of his fiscal year riding a wave of on-track momentum.Advertisement His controling triumph at Kansas Speedway, where he led 221 of 267 laps on Sunday

, was his 3rd Cup Series win of the season, and it moved him into first place in the points standings. Larson likewise has actually won two of his 3 Xfinity begins, among his 2 Truck races, and he has a win and

three top-five surfaces in five sprint cars and truck functions in the High Limit series.Then again, all that success doesn’t seem to matter much to him.

“I do not really

let a race affect the next day of my life, “Larson explained Sunday night.”I would rather win leading into these next number of weeks than have a DNF or something. But I do not actually believe it matters.”What happens the next number of weeks matters a lot, though. He’s been waiting a whole year to try”the Double”again.Advertisement”Yeah, it’s going to be a fun two weeks,”Larson said.

“I anticipate collaborating with the team, Arrow McLaren, and discovering

the cars and truck more, attempting to narrow in on our balance, and simply trying to have a smooth couple weeks like we had last year, and execute like you would in any race and try to be in the hunt at the end. “___ AP car racing: https://apnews.com/hub/auto-racing