After serving four seasons as the Arctic Cat All Star Circuit of Champions presented by Mobil 1 Technical Director Eric Walls will now switch roles and takeover Series Director duties, effective immediately.

Walls, who joined the All Star staff as Technical Director just after Tony Stewart purchased the Series in 2015, will bring experience and passion to the director’s chair in 2019, hoping to utilize prior experiences to lead the All Star Circuit of Champions down a path of success.

“It is an honor to be promoted to this role. I’m confident I can do my part in representing the Series at the highest level,” Walls said, who will head race day operations for the All Star Circuit of Champions including race control.

In addition to his experience as Technical Director for the All Star Circuit of Champions—the head of pre-race technical inspection, as well as an on-track assistant to race control—Walls has been an active consultant to much of the sprint car world, helping administer premier events such as the Sprint Car World Championship at Mansfield Motor Speedway and the Knoxville Nationals at Knoxville Raceway.

The 2019 season will kick-start officially on January 31, at Bubba Raceway Park in Florida.