MOORESVILLE, N.C. Things will look quite different for Kasey Kahne as he returns full-time with Kubota High Limit Racing this season.

After winning six-straight national championships with Brad Sweet on the NAPA Auto Parts No. 49, renowned crew chief Eric Prutzman will move one trailer over to wrench on the Kahne Screen Print, HendrickCars.com No. 9 while also assuming the Team Manager role to oversee all of Kasey Kahne Racing.

The new pairing has seven nights of racing under their belts between the World Finals at Charlotte and DIRTcar Nationals at Volusia with the highlight coming in a top-five finish against the World of Outlaws.

As the Kubota High Limit Racing campaign comes around the corner, its all about getting familiar with this new dynamic for the No. 9 camp.

Adding Eric has been great because he prepares such a nice car and builds a team for the whole year, Kahne said. Thats something that weve lacked for a few years, having both cars fully prepared when the new season starts. As far as working together at the track through the night, I think itll be a learning process for both of us. I know that the success he and Brad achieved will help in the long-term, but I also know that Brad and I are very different drivers. I think it can work well, but it will be a unique combination that well have to adjust to.

For the better part of the last decade, Prutzman has been revered as one of the top crew chiefs in all of sprint car racing.

Before moving to Kasey Kahne Racing in 2017, he honed his craft under the tutelage of legends like Ricky Warner and Jimmy Carr when he was part of four World of Outlaws championships on the Tony Stewart Racing No. 15 driven by Donny Schatz.

Over seven seasons with Sweet, Prutzman enjoyed the glory of 74 World of Outlaws wins, 10 High Limit wins, a Knoxville Nationals title, a Kings Royal crown, and of course those six-straight titles with Outlaw rings from 2019-23 then High Limit bling in 2024.

For Kahne, who has been on the verge of his elusive first win with a national sprint car series for years, he hopes Prutzmans knowledge will elevate the No. 9 program to new heights.

I think we have the potential to become way more consistent, he noted. I know that its not as easy I would hope it will be and it will take some time, but I think our results, our consistency as a whole, our qualifying performance, it can all improve from where it has been in the past.