Ricky Thornton Jr. is ready to throw his hat into the winged 410 Sprint Car ring.

The reigning DirtonDirt.com Driver of the Year intends to make his winged 410 Sprint Car debut this Friday and Saturday at Lernerville Speedway in Sarver, Pa., on the Kubota High Limit Racing tour, the 33-year-old told FloRacing on Thursday.

The Chandler, Ariz., superstar will be aboard the Indy Race Parts No. 71 machine owned by Bernie Stuebgen of Indianapolis, Ind., a ride that’s featured many high-profile open-wheel drivers and has won multiple World of Outlaws events through the years. Thornton will also be teammates with A.J. Flick, the seven-time Lernerville Sprint Car track champion, for the weekend, which is one of High Limit Racing's most lucrative of the season with Saturday's $50,000-to-win Commonwealth Clash program. Action begins with Friday's preliminaries.

"I'm excited. Obviously it's something I've always wanted to do, just never really had the right opportunity to," Thornton told FloRacing. "To be hooked up with Bernie and Indy Race Parts, I think it's the best opportunity I'm going to get. Hopefully we can go out and have a really good weekend."

It’ll be Thornton’s sixth different division raced this year along with Super Late Models, Micro Sprint Cars, Modifieds, Stock Cars, and Midget cars. Thornton triumphed in his only wingless Sprint Car start to date June 2017 at Central Arizona Speedway in Casa Grande, Ariz., but hasn’t yet tried his hand in the winged discipline, something he’s been eager to add to his ever-growing, diverse racing schedule.

Thornton’s 410 debut at the 3/8-mile oval comes during a Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series off weekend and didn’t become an option until the World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series cancelled its doubleheader weekend at Senoia (Ga.) Raceway and Talladega Short Track in Eastaboga, Ala., because of expected rainfall from Hurricane Francine.

Thornton said he and Stuebgen "have talked for probably the last year, year-and-a-half, about doing something, but nothing ever lined up right" and that "the rainout this weekend has made it a perfect opportunity."

Thornton, who’s amassed 54 victories in the Super Late Model since the start of last year, also plans to race Stuebgen’s Sprint Car, along with his Koehler Motorsports No. 20rt Late Model, during Nov. 6-9’s World Finals at the Dirt Track at Charlotte and perhaps other 410 events in the future, as long as it doesn't interfere with his Late Model commitments.

"I'm thankful for the opportunity to race with Bernie and thankful with Bobby Koehler at Koehler Motorsports for allowing me to go do it," Thornton said.

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