CALEB SAIZ BEHIND THE WHEEL AT DAVID BURNS RACING

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1999

YEAR WE STARTED

BEHIND THE WHEEL

THE CALEB SAIZ STORY

2008

WHERE IT STARTED

It started with his grandfather Lonnie putting him in his first quarter midget at age 8 at Sandia Speedway. For Caleb Saiz, the racetrack wasn’t just a hobby — it was home. As he tells it, “my earliest memories are being at the racetrack with my grandparents.”

By age 12, Caleb was competing in mini sprints at Hollywood Hills Speedway with the New Mexico Modified Midgets club — sponsored by the Unser Racing Museum and Alchemy Hair Studios. He was the youngest competitor in the field. He finished tenth in the final standings out of all mini sprint competitors in New Mexico and took home Rookie of the Year.

Over the next six years he racked up 6 wins and 12 top-5 finishes across Hollywood Hills Speedway, Napa Speedway, Aztec Speedway, Grants Speedway, Southern New Mexico Speedway, and White Sands Speedway. The kid who grew up in the grandstands was becoming the driver everyone else had to beat.

2016

THE SPRINT CAR JUMP

At 20 years old, Caleb Saiz made the jump from mini sprints to full size sprint cars — one of the biggest leaps in motorsport. It was the same year he connected with David Burns through Truman West and joined what would become DBR Racing.

In his very first season behind the wheel of a sprint car, Caleb earned NMMRA Rookie of the Year — the same honor David Burns had earned in his own first season back in 1999. Two rookies of the year. One team. That’s not a coincidence — that’s a culture.

From day one Caleb learned alot — from engine maintenance, car setup, to race prep under the guidance of David Burns, Steve Nix, Clyde Hill, and Russ Hein. The firefighter with the flexible schedule who turns wrenches all week and races on the weekend. As Caleb puts it — “David takes his team seriously. DBR brings more of a professional environment — we still have fun but also treat it as a business.”

He didn’t just join a team in 2016. He found his people.

2018 – 2021

CHAMPIONSHIP YEARS

By 2018 Caleb knew he belonged. He captured his first POWRi NMMRA championship that year — and didn’t stop there. In 2020 he won the title by just 7 points over Spencer Hill in a COVID-shortened season where every single point felt like a full race. Three championships in four years. The kind of consistency that doesn’t happen by accident.

But 2021 was different. That year David Burns put Caleb behind the wheel of the Hank Arnold Twister tribute car — honoring the Arizona racing legend and Burns family uncle who had been a true ambassador for motorsports in the Southwest. It was a responsibility Caleb didn’t take lightly. As he puts it, “it meant a lot to me that David thought highly enough of me to represent someone like Hank Arnold.”

Caleb won the championship that year. The tribute car. The title. The legacy honored. To him, the championship was the cherry on top — but carrying Hank Arnold’s name to victory lane was the moment that meant everything.

2026

GOING NATIONAL

Every championship, every late night in the shop, every mile logged across New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, South Dakota, Nebraska, California, Texas and Wyoming was building toward this.

In March 2026, Caleb Saiz made his debut in High Limit Racing — the premier national 410 sprint car series — at Vado Speedway Park. The kid who started in quarter midgets at Sandia Speedway was now lining up against the best sprint car drivers in the country.

He arrives at that moment as the all-time winningest driver in the Desert Series — a record that speaks for itself. But records aren’t what drives Caleb. As he puts it, “now we have to work harder than we have worked before to stay there.”

That’s not false modesty. That’s the mindset that built seven championships in the first place. DBR Racing isn’t chasing history. They’re making it — one race night at a time.