mean we’ re not going to bring five or six cars to come race 5.30 so that we and our crew guys can enjoy it. We’ ve also talked about me or Shawn racing the Small Tire champ at the end of the night for an additional $ 5,000 at a few races. |
“ I gave him about 25 tracks and we came up with eight that are a good fit for us.” |
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Looking ahead – now that you’ re both officially jumping into the promotional side of things, where would you like to see this series head moving forward? RM: One thing we learned from NPK is you can oversaturate things. You can oversaturate yourself for one series – there were a couple times where we raced 16 or 18 times in one season for the NPK series. When you’ re chasing a points championship, it’ s super grueling to do that to anybody. We’ re not gonna do that. I think 10 is the sweet spot for me. In my opinion, if we could stay somewhere between 8-10, that is a fair amount of races for a points champion to try to follow and not get overwhelmed.
With NPK, a lot of guys couldn’ t keep up with that series because they had to work regular jobs. Guys like me and Shawn, that was what we did for a living. We were fortunate enough that we could go test during the week to stay on top and it showed – we both won championships. But we don’ t want to do that to these people. This year we’ re at eight; if next year is nine
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— Ryan Martin
and the following year is 10, that’ s probably going to be where we’ ll cap it. And honestly, we’ re gonna have such a busy year with this series, our NHRA stuff, and Mid-West Pro Mod, you’ re talking about 30 weekends booked for the year.
SE: Not to mention, we haven’ t really discussed going to Canada yet, but the three places we’ ve been going to in Canada are likely going to be added at some point also. But 8-10 races, in my opinion, is the perfect number. A lot of these guys coming to these races, especially the locals, I feel that we’ ll be fortunate enough to have some people that are chasing the championship. But those same people chasing the championship have regular 9-5 jobs.
I think especially right now, it’ s gonna take a lot of our attention to try to keep the racers happy, keep the fans happy. That’ s one of my biggest things is to be there for the fans. A lot of times in NPK, I heard
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so many times throughout the years,“ I couldn’ t get to Shawn. His line was too long.” We want to make ourselves readily available. That’ s the reason we went ahead and did the VIP tickets where me and Ryan will have personal time, Q & As, things like that. DI
Martin and Ellington are quick to thank their long list of growing sponsors for helping make the Outlaw Syndicate Small Tire Series possible: Pro Line, VP Fuels, Quick Performance, XPEL, M & M Transmission, Isky Racing Cams, Hoosier, ProCharger, OC Raw, Larry Jeffers Race Cars, Nitrous Express, Baker American Cycles, Central Power Systems & Services, Polaris Off Road, Billet Specialties, Motion
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Raceworks, Forced Inductions, Kicker, MidWest Diesel, and ATI Performance Products.
2026 Outlaw Syndicate Small Tire Series Schedule March 27-28: North Florida Motorplex – Fountain, FL April 10-11: Brainerd Motorsports Park – Ringgold, GA May 1-3: Darlington Dragway – Darlington, SC May 15-16: 710 Dragway – Rowland, NC June 5-6: Southside Dragway – Mason County, WV June 12-13: Skelton Raceway – Sikeston, MO August 7-8: Holiday Raceway – Woodstock, AL August 21-22: US 60 Dragway – Hardinsburg, KY
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