CORTEZ HAS MORE FROM TODAY’S CELEBRATION. IN A SPORT WHERE RACES ARE WON IN SECONDS. ONE. NUMBER ONE ELK GROVE TAKING A MOMENT TO SAVOR ITS HOMETOWN CHAMPION. FAMILIES AND LONGTIME FANS LINED ELK GROVE BOULEVARD, CHEERING ON KYLE LARSON AS HE ROLLED THROUGH AS A TWO TIME NASCAR CUP SERIES CHAMPION. I MEAN, THEY TOTALLY APPRECIATE HIM FOR WHAT HE’S ABLE TO DO AND WHAT HE DOES FOR THE COMMUNITY ITSELF. A WELCOME HOME MOMENT TO THE KID WHO GREW UP COMPETING ALL AROUND THE REGION, RACED SPRINT CARS AND STUFF THROUGHOUT NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. WELL, THE WEST COAST REALLY, BUT PLACERVILLE, CHICO, WATSONVILLE, TULARE, HANFORD, MARYSVILLE, PETALUMA. I MISSED MY TIME HERE, BUT YOU KNOW, IT WAS DEFINITELY A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE. WHEN I DID. AND AS THE PARADE MOVED CLOSER, THE CHASE FOR ONE GRANDFATHER, I’VE BEEN PURSUING AN AUTOGRAPH FROM HIM AND FOLLOWING HIM FOR SO LONG NOW. COMING ACROSS THE FINISH LINE, THAT GRANDSON JACKSON, AN EARLY CHRISTMAS PRESENT. YEAH, BUT ONE. THAT ONE THAT I’M SURE HE WILL TREASURE. AND THOUGH LARSON MAY HAVE TAKEN HOME ONE OF SPORT’S BIGGEST TROPHIES. HERE ON THIS STREET, IT’S THE HEART OF A CITY THAT IS THE BIGGEST AWARD OF THEM ALL. SO, KYLE IN ELK GROVE DENSON CORTEZ KCRA THREE NEWS. IN ADDITION TO THE PARADE TODAY, KY
Elk Grove honors two-time NASCAR Cup Champion Kyle Larson with parade
Honoring his 2025 NASCAR Cup Series title, his second career crown after first winning in 2021.
Updated: 7:33 PM PST Nov 14, 2025
Elk Grove celebrated hometown star Kyle Larson with a championship parade at Old Town Plaza on Friday, honoring his 2025 NASCAR Cup Series title, his second career crown after first winning in 2021. “I don’t get to see really anybody that often anymore, from Elk Grove anyways. So it’s good to come here and celebrate and see how much the championship meant to everybody,” Larson said.Larson, 33, graduated from Pleasant Grove High School. He recently captured the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series title at the Phoenix Raceway in Avondale, Arizona.The parade brought people from across Elk Grove and beyond to celebrate Larson. “When I found out he was going to be here, I couldn’t pass it up. I supported him since he was 42,” said Donald Culbertson, who came from Alaska to visit family.Larson reflected with KCRA some of his most memorable moments growing up competing in the region.”I raced like sprint cars and stuff, you know, throughout Northern California. Well the West Coast really, but Placerville, Chico, Watsonville, Tulare, Marysville, Petaluma,” Larson said. Larson drives the No. 5 for Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet. His third-place finish at Phoenix sealed the championship as the top finisher among the Championship 4 (Denny Hamlin, William Byron, Chase Briscoe, and Larson), delivering team owner Rick Hendrick his 15th Cup title.Larson previously received the key to the city of Elk Grove, which has also proclaimed Nov. 22 as “Kyle Larson Day.”Larson’s Northern California ties run deep at Sonoma Raceway, where he owns wins in 2021 and 2024 and a streak of five consecutive poles from 2017–2022. He’s slated to return to wine country for the Toyota/Save Mart 350 on Sunday, June 28, 2026, with ARCA Menards Series West on Friday, June 26, and the NASCAR Xfinity Series on Saturday, June 27. Weekend tickets and camping are available on the track’s website; kids 12 and under are free Friday and Saturday and $10 on Sunday.This weekend, Larson was expected to head to Placerville for the Hangtown 100 to chase a third career win in the event. However, the event was canceled on Friday due to weather and Saturday’s race will be determined by 8 a.m. that day. See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel
ELK GROVE, Calif. —
Elk Grove celebrated hometown star Kyle Larson with a championship parade at Old Town Plaza on Friday, honoring his 2025 NASCAR Cup Series title, his second career crown after first winning in 2021.
“I don’t get to see really anybody that often anymore, from Elk Grove anyways. So it’s good to come here and celebrate and see how much the championship meant to everybody,” Larson said.
Larson, 33, graduated from Pleasant Grove High School. He recently captured the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series title at the Phoenix Raceway in Avondale, Arizona.
The parade brought people from across Elk Grove and beyond to celebrate Larson.
“When I found out he was going to be here, I couldn’t pass it up. I supported him since he was 42,” said Donald Culbertson, who came from Alaska to visit family.
Larson reflected with KCRA some of his most memorable moments growing up competing in the region.
“I raced like sprint cars and stuff, you know, throughout Northern California. Well the West Coast really, but Placerville, Chico, Watsonville, Tulare, Marysville, Petaluma,” Larson said.
Larson drives the No. 5 for Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet. His third-place finish at Phoenix sealed the championship as the top finisher among the Championship 4 (Denny Hamlin, William Byron, Chase Briscoe, and Larson), delivering team owner Rick Hendrick his 15th Cup title.
Larson previously received the key to the city of Elk Grove, which has also proclaimed Nov. 22 as “Kyle Larson Day.”
Larson’s Northern California ties run deep at Sonoma Raceway, where he owns wins in 2021 and 2024 and a streak of five consecutive poles from 2017–2022.
He’s slated to return to wine country for the Toyota/Save Mart 350 on Sunday, June 28, 2026, with ARCA Menards Series West on Friday, June 26, and the NASCAR Xfinity Series on Saturday, June 27.
Weekend tickets and camping are available on the track’s website; kids 12 and under are free Friday and Saturday and $10 on Sunday.
This weekend, Larson was expected to head to Placerville for the Hangtown 100 to chase a third career win in the event. However, the event was canceled on Friday due to weather and Saturday’s race will be determined by 8 a.m. that day.
See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel