Williamson Earns First World of Outlaws Win for Fischer Motorsports
NXTbets Pro | Published On: September 4, 2026
Williamson breakthrough
Garet Williamson gave Fischer Motorsports the result it had been chasing, winning his first World of Outlaws race at River Cities Speedway. The 26-year-old put the No. 23 sprint car in victory lane and finished the job with crew chief Chad Cypert, Brady Donnohue and Dakota Breeland joining him after the race. Curt Fischer called it a breakthrough for the team and said it validated the trust and patience inside the operation. That mattered because the program was built around Williamson from the start. Curt and Devin Fischer launched the No. 23 team with him as their driver, then moved it full-time into World of Outlaws competition. The win gave the group a clear payoff after a long stretch of work and put a sharp finish on a turnaround that had been building for months.
Fischer Motorsports foundation
The partnership between Williamson and Fischer Motorsports started with a simple setup, a young driver and a new sprint car team built to grow together. Williamson won the Kevin Gobrecht Rookie of the Year award, but the year also brought inconsistency that kept the team from settling in. The results came and went, and the group had to keep sorting through the same problem again and again. That is part of what made the eventual breakthrough so meaningful. The team was not starting from zero. It already had a foundation, a driver who showed speed and a crew willing to keep pushing. The question was whether that base could turn into steady front-running results. Fischer Motorsports kept working through the rough patches, and Williamson kept driving through them. The victory at River Cities Speedway showed the effort was starting to pay off.
Chassis change reset
Chad Cypert helped spark the change that moved the program forward. He urged Curt Fischer to stop micromanaging and let the team work, and Fischer responded by approving a chassis change to Triple X. The switch gave Williamson a different platform, and the numbers changed with it. Before the move, he had nine top-10 finishes in his first 22 races and a 12.1 average finish. After the change, he delivered 23 top-10 finishes in his next 32 starts and improved to a 7.7 average finish. That kind of jump gave the team proof that its adjustments were working. It also put Williamson in position to turn steady progress into a first victory. By the time the checkered flag fell at River Cities Speedway, the team had already shown the trend. The chassis change sharpened the results. The patience kept the program together. The win gave Fischer Motorsports the payoff those changes had been building toward.
