October 2, 2024 | By Kyle McFadden

Daison Pursley to join Buch Motorsports full time with High Limit Racing

LANCASTER, Pa. — The first major domino has fallen in what's expected to be a busy Sprint Car silly season leading into 2025.

On Tuesday afternoon, it was announced that Daison Pursley will be joining the No. 13 Buch Motorsports team for a full-time Kubota High Limit Racing effort next season.

Motor Racing Network's Winged Nation broke the news that 19-year-old of Locust Grove, Okla., is set to succeed Justin Peck, who recently picked up his first High Limit win of the season Sept. 20 at Eldora Speedway on 4-Crown Nationals weekend.

Peck and the Pennsylvania-based Buch Motorsports team are currently sixth in the High Limit point standings, one spot and 18 points behind Corey Day's No. 14 Jason Meyers Racing team from a coveted charter spot.

"I'm extremely excited. This is absolutely a dream come true for a kid like me growing up running Micros," Pursley told FloRacing. "Of course, winged 410 Sprint Car racing is the top echelon of what we do on dirt oval racing. Just a dream come true. Excited to do it with a great team. Tom Buch and (crew chief) Sean (Straussbaugh) have a phenomenal team they've assembled."

Pursley will make his Buch debut Nov. 1-2 at Bridgeport (N.J.) Motorsports Park and also race Nov. 6-9 at the World Finals at the Dirt Track at Charlotte.

Pursley, who will turn 20 later this month, has made 15 winged Sprint Car starts this year as he begins to make the transition from non-wing Sprints and Midgets, classes he's excelled in through the years despite a scary Nov. 2021 accident in which he needed to repair and fuse the C4 and C5 vertebrae. The accident sidelined Pursley for majority of the 2022 season.

But Pursley has increased his stock this year, collecting a 410 Sprint Car win at Huset's Speedway on May 26 and 10 additional open-wheel triumphs in USAC Sprint Cars, USAC Midgets and Silver Crown cars. Purlsey

Pursley scored his first career USAC Silver Crown victory in only his second start in the famed divison June 15 at Port Royal Speedway by virtue of an incredible last-corner pass of Justin Grant. Pursley also won two of the three USAC races — Midgets and non-winged Sprints — during Sept. 20-21's 4-Crown Nationals at Eldora Speedway.

This year's Indiana Midget Week title went to Pursley as well. In 15 winged Sprint Car starts this year for Brandon Ikenberry, Pursley has one victory, two total podium finishes and three top-10 finishes, with a best national series finish of ninth at July 16's World of Outlaws event at Ohio's Attica Raceway Park.