Giovanni Scelzi swept Texas Motor Speedway weekend with two High Limit wins
NXTbets Pro | Published On: October 18, 2026
Giovanni Scelzi Friday
Giovanni Scelzi started the Texas Motor Speedway weekend by charging from seventh to first to win the 25-lap Interstate Batteries High Limit Racing feature Friday night. He took control on lap 18, when he moved past Rico Abreu for the lead and finished the job from there. The win gave Scelzi a strong opening to the doubleheader and set the tone for what became a sweep at the Fort Worth track. Tyler Courtney finished second in the feature, with Abreu third, Tanner Thorson fourth and Daison Pursley fifth. The result showed how quickly Scelzi found speed over the course of the race, since he had to work through traffic before reaching the front and then made the decisive move late enough to turn the final portion into a clean run to the checkered flag. Friday’s victory also put him in position to attack the rest of the weekend with momentum already in hand, and he closed the weekend on top.
Scelzi Saturday
Scelzi backed up Friday’s win with a front-running performance in Saturday’s 30-lap High Limit Racing season finale at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth. He led every lap and held off Abreu at the finish by 0.202 seconds. The margin was tight, but Scelzi controlled the race from the start and never gave away the lead. Abreu crossed the line second, and Brent Marks finished third in the finale. The victory was Scelzi’s third straight, which gave his weekend a clean sweep and made the final race of the event another example of his pace at the track. Winning a 30-lap race without surrendering the lead is a different kind of statement than a drive through traffic, and Scelzi delivered both over the two nights at Texas Motor Speedway. The combination of Friday’s comeback win and Saturday’s flag-to-flag victory put him at the center of the weekend story from start to finish.
Abreu championship
Rico Abreu still left Texas Motor Speedway with the 2026 Interstate Batteries High Limit Racing championship, clinching the title by 31 points. The crown was his second straight High Limit Racing championship, and it came after he finished second to Scelzi in Saturday’s finale. Abreu had been part of the decisive moments on both nights, giving the weekend a familiar front-running presence even as Scelzi swept the racing at the track. Friday night, Abreu finished third after Scelzi slipped by him for the lead on lap 18. That left the final standings in Abreu’s favor, even with Scelzi’s pair of wins. The weekend closed with two different headlines from the same track, Scelzi’s sweep and Abreu’s championship, and both fit the way the event unfolded. Scelzi showed the speed to win two different races in two different ways, from a drive through the field on Friday to a wire-to-wire effort on Saturday. Abreu, meanwhile, did enough across the season to secure the title and add another championship to his resume.
