SPEEDWAY, Ind. — Kyle O’Gara is making a substantial adjustment to his racing program when action resumes following the COVID-19 breakout.

O’Gara has put all of his dirt equipment — including three midgets — up for sale and will be shifting his focus to pavement racing in the sprint car and USAC Silver Crown ranks.

“We’ve basically been building that inventory up the past few years. Obviously, that’s the background that I came from and grew up with,” said O’Gara. “Basically, when the pavement stuff started to die out in 2014 and 2015, that’s when we started transitioning to the dirt stuff. We ran the past couple of years with that and made some big strides and made a lot of races.

“We’re all happy with how the progress has gone, but we see the pavement side coming back really strong right now and we want to basically dump all of our effort into that, between now the midget side, the sprint car end, and the Silver Crown races as well.”

To that point, it’s a chance for O’Gara to go back to his racing roots, as he started in open-wheel racing on the blacktop before dirt racing largely took over as the main form of competition in the Midwest.

“It’s no secret that I struggle with the dirt stuff and have for a long time,” O’Gara admitted. “It took me a long time to pick it up, and every time we go to a new track it was like starting fresh for us because we didn’t run it enough. So going back to the pavement stuff as consistently as we’re supposed to be this year gives me a lot better footing for me to go to a lot of these new tracks.

“I think I’ll have a better mindset going into it too, and that’s always something that helps.”

As far as what he’s put up for sale, O’Gara said his stable includes all three chassis that he put together for the Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Nationals back in January – driven by himself, Chase Jones and Pennsylvania’s Ryan Smith.

“We have three basically complete cars, minus engine and seat, ready to go,” he noted. “They were the cars from this Chili Bowl … so they’re top of the line, everything, pretty much. We’ve dumped a ton of money into them. We sold off our (Stanton) SR11s last month; of course, we got rid of both of those just in time for the midget race to be announced at IRP (Lucas Oil Raceway). We had both of those gone, so that hurt a little bit. But we have three complete Beast rollers for sale with a ton of spares.

“It’s something that we’re willing to separate to some guys and piece out if they want it, but we’re trying to keep … at least the cars together,” he added. “We want to sell them as rollers, but we’ll see how it goes. There’s a lot of attention around them right now.”

O’Gara is targeting the Aug. 22 Night Before The 500 at Lucas Oil Raceway as one of the major events on his schedule, but added that he’s also looking forward to some of the pavement races on the Silver Crown schedule too.

O’Gara dabbled in a Crown car six years ago but has yet to race one on a more consistent basis.

“I ran a couple races in 2014 for RW Motorsports,” O’Gara recalled. “I ran both the Lucas Oil races that year. I think we went 24th to fifth and ran out of fuel one race … and then we had a top 10 in the other race. But the long races are a lot more my cup of tea; we’ve found out in the sprint car the past couple of years. The longer-paced races have suited us really well. And obviously with running more stuff with the sprint car, to get back into the Crown car now I think I’ll be a lot more comfortable than I was in 2014 going from the midget to the Crown car.

“It’s something we’re really looking forward to a ton if we get to go back racing here soon.”

Though he’s turned his eyes back to the pavement, O’Gara didn’t rule out a potential return to the Chili Bowl sometime down the road.

“Right now, we’re 100 percent invested on the pavement side, but with that being said, if for some reason the car wouldn’t sell or something like that, we’d sit down and probably put something together for Chili Bowl,” O’Gara admitted. “It’s an event that we look forward to going to every year. I would say it’s a dice roll for us every time we go down there, just like it is for everyone.

“We still have a lot of friends and other teams that we’re tight with that go down there, so I’m not saying I’m done down there yet, but we’ll see.”