Up-and-coming Sprint Car driver Danny Sams III is going full-time on the Kubota High Limit Racing tour in 2025 as the 22-year-old announced his run for Rookie of the Year on Monday with the Rocky Anderson-owned No. 24D team.

The North Port, Fla., native, who really made a name for himself during Ohio Sprint Speedweek last year, winning three races over a five-day span, emerged as one of the sport’s breakout drivers in his five-win 2024 season. Last month, Sams teased on social media that he’d campaign on a national tour in 2025, either High Limit or on the World of Outlaws.

High Limit Racing’s 60-race schedule is what impelled Sams to choose the second-year national tour as he'll contend for Rookie of the Year with USAC National Midget champion Daison Pursley.

“I more or less wanted to do what made most sense for our team. Being that we’re newer to the national tour, less races, free range to go race wherever we want, we felt like High Limit is our best option going into 2025,” Sams told FloRacing. “Just everything made more sense. We broke down the money and everything like that. We feel like the best performance would come on High Limit.”

Sams is also going all-in with the Elkhart, Ind., team with his family quite literally by his side. Last year, it was mainly his father, Danny Sams Jr., and mother, Tina Sams, working on his race-day crew. Danny Jr. was his crew chief while Tina was his car chief. This year he's hired 22-year-old Australian crewman Ben Micallef, who previously worked with Jordyn Charge, to give him a family-oriented, three-man crew for the 2025 High Limit season.

"It's nice to add someone to our crew to take the workload off of us," Sams said. "Just as much as I was racing, I was working on the car with my family. Not a lot of people know that."

The Florida driver said he had "three solid full-time offers” over the winter, opportunities to race a Sprint Car where his parents wouldn't have to crew for him, but Sams turned those offers down because he loves what he's built with his family that much.

“The family thing, people can connect to it," Sams said. "I had offers to drive other cars and stuff this year, which is a really cool position to be in. But I turned them down because this is my 10-year-plus plan. And what’s cooler than to do with your own family? People really relate to it. I sat back down with them, and I told them, ‘We made it this far. Is this what you want to do?’ They said, ‘Absolutely, we don’t want to do anything else."

While High Limit will be a sizable jump for Sams, who's only entering his third full-time 410 season, he feels there's no better time to chase his dream as a touring Sprint Car driver that now. Last March, he quit his full-time job as an aerospace machinist so he could devote his full focus toward Sprint Car racing. 

“Going into last year, we knew our goal was to be on a national tour going into 2025," Sams said. "We didn’t know how we were going to do that financially. We knew we needed to be at the big races and turn the right heads to have the chance. We’ve had someone hop on board to give us that opportunity to take that next step.”

Sams's 2024 performance has earned he and his Anderson-owned No. 24D team more financial backing, specifically one undisclosed financial backer that's made it possible for the emerging Sprint Car star to travel the nation in 2025.

“With this backing, I feel like I can take more chances,” Sams said. “At the beginning of last year, we didn’t know how many races we were going to run. As we did better, we had more opportunities to race more races, I had more opportunities to try and make that bigger move.”

Of all the racetracks on the High Limit schedule, Sams has only raced five of them in a 410: Michigan's Butler Speedway, Ohio's Eldora Speedway, Kentucky's Florence Speedway, Indiana's Lawrenceburg Speedway, and Pennsylvania's Lernerville Speedway 

"Just a good year would be top-10 in points," Sams said. "A great year would be better than that and Rookie of the Year. ... What’s cooler than what to do it with your family? If it works out, it’d be the coolest thing ever.”