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an American professional stock car racing driver; he is the younger brother of NASCAR Cup Series driver Austin Dillon, son of former driver Mike Dillon and grandson of Richard Childress. Dillon began his racing career in Bandolero minicars. Moving up to the K&N Pro Series East in 2009, he competed for the series championship in 2010, finishing 13th in points despite only competing in eight races of the series' ten-race schedule. He scored one win in the series, in August 2010 at Gresham Motorsports Park. After making three starts and winning twice, at Kansas Speedway and Rockingham Speedway, in the ARCA Racing Series in 2010, Dillon ran his first full season in the series in 2011, winning seven times on his way to winning the series championship. He defeated Chris Buescher by a 340-point margin for the championship, but lost the series rookie-of-the-year award to Buescher by two points. Dillon

made his debut in the NASCAR Truck Series in 2011, driving the Real Tree / Bad Boy Buggies Chevy. He finished 18th at Kentucky Speedway, in preparation for running the full series schedule for Richard Childress Racing in 2012. In only his second Truck Series start at Texas Motor Speedway, he finished third. At Homestead, he finished 6th, right in front of his brother Austin, who was crowned champion that night after the race was called due to rain. In the 2012 NextEra Energy Resources 250 at Daytona, he finished 9th. He recorded top ten finishes in each of the first five Truck Series races of the year. On August 31, he

scored his first career Truck Series win at Atlanta Motor Speedway. In early June 2012, Dillon made his debut in the Xfinity Series in the 5-hour Energy 200 at Dover International Speedway driving the South Point Casino car. The picture here shows him racing alongside his brother Austin. In July he finished third in the first Xfinity Series race held at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. In August 2013, it was announced that Dillon would be moving full-time to the Xfinity Series for 2014, where he would drive the No. 3 Chevrolet for RCR, replacing brother Austin. Returning to the Truck Series in 2013, Dillon went on to win at Kentucky Speedway in the Truck Series on June 27 of that year. At Texas, Dillon won the 100th race for a #3 car/truck in NASCAR. Dillon finished second in the 2013 NASCAR Truck Series standings, behind Matt Crafton that

season. In 2014, Dillon returned to the Truck Series for the Mudsummer Classic at Eldora Speedway, racing the Tracker Boats Chevy. Dillon finished 5th in the event. Dillon later entered the final race of the season in the No. 9 for NTS Motorsports in place of Brennan Newberry, finishing 7th. On July 26, 2014 in the Xfinity Series at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Dillon got by Kyle Busch on the final restart and held off Busch to win the race. The picture below shows brother Austin giving Ty the #1 sign. Dillon finished second to Chase Elliott in the 2014 Xfinity Rookie of the Year standings. Dillon also drove the #3 Yuengling Chevy. In 2015, Dillon began with a third-place finish at the

season opener at Daytona. On August 8, 2015 at Watkins Glen, Dillon was involved in a huge fight with Regan Smith when Dillon dumped Smith in turn one and caused Smith to finish in the top twenty. On July 15, 2014, RCR announced Dillon will make his NASCAR Cup Series debut in the No. 33 with Hillman-Circle Sport LLC in partnership with RCR in the Oral-B USA 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. After qualifying 29th, he finished 25th. In 2016 at the season opening race at Daytona, Dillon scored his fourth career Xfinity Series pole. Dillon brought home a

$100,000 bonus by winning the Dash 4 Cash at Richmond, after the three other Dash 4 Cash drivers all crashed out of the race in the same wreck, late in the going. For 2016, NASCAR used the Chase format in the Xfinity Series. Dillon made the Chase on points, but unfortunately, he was eliminated after a close battle with Justin Allgaier. Dillon finished 5th in points for 2016. On the Cup side of his career, in 2016, Dillon joined Circle Sport – Leavine Family Racing, splitting the No. 95 with Michael McDowell with sponsorship from Cheerios and Nexteer among others. Like the 33, the 95 has an alliance with RCR. Dillon also ran the #14 for Stewart-Haas Racing, substituting for an injured Tony Stewart. Dillon would finish 7th at Talladega for the running of the GEICO 500 but the credit would go to Stewart since he started the race. At Pocono, Dillon would lead his first three laps in Cup competition.

Dillon took over for Regan Smith in the #7 Tommy Baldwin Racing Chevy at the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 400 as Smith flew back to North Carolina to await the birth of his child. On November 28, 2016, it was announced that Dillon would replace veteran Casey Mears, who has been with Germain for six years, in the No. 13 GEICO Chevrolet for Germain Racing in 2017. That season he ran about as well as his brother Austin. Ty's average finish was 20th while Austin's was 18th. Nothing very impressive for either driver. Ty's best finish of the season came later in the season where he finished 11th at both Talladega and Phoenix. At the end of the 2017 Paul Menard left RCR to go drive for the Wood Brothers. Everyone assumed that with an over seat at RCR Ty would naturally move into his grandfathers ride. Unexpectedly Ty signed to remain at Germain racing for 2018. He didn't fair much better in 2018 than he did in 2017. He did post his career Top 10 finish in

the July race at Daytona. But fell three spots in the overall standings from 24th to 27th. 2019 saw much the same for Ty Dillon as in the previous two seasons. He again finished 24th in the points standings but his high light was his first career Top 5 finish when he finished fourth at Daytona in July; he also had a sixth place finish in the Daytona 500. His only other Top 10 finish came at Talladega. He returned to wheel the Germain Racing Chevy in 2020 and saw a season much like the one in 2019. He finished third at Talladega in the fall; and tenth at the Las Vegas in the spring. That amounted to his only two top ten finishes of the year. He only managed six finishes in the top 15. Late in the season, his sponsor Geico, announced they would not be back to sponsor the car. Shortly afterwards Germain Racing announced that they was not going to look for a new sponsor, and instead would sell their Charter and

get out of racing. They sold their Charter to a new team co-owned by NBA star Michael Jordan and driver Denny Hamlin. That car will be driven by Bubba Wallace. Ty Dillon did not have a full time Cup ride for 2021, and pretty much sat out the season. He raced whichever series he could get a seat in. He raced the most in the Xfinity Series; wheeling a car for 11 events. His best finish was fifth at Atlanta; and had three Top 10’s. He ran one race in the Truck Series finishing 25th. In the Cup Series he ran four events; all for the underfunded Gaunt Brothers Team. He completed every lap of every race; but could finish no better than 21st. His hopes for 2022 look much brighter. Gallagher Motorsports is moving full time to the Cup Series

as they team with Richard Petty Motorsports and become Petty GMS. In December 2021, it was announced that Dillon's 2022 car number would change to the #42 alongside the #43 of Erik Jones as a teammate. Dillon has not had any success in the Cup series; and like his brother; most though he only kept a Cup ride because of who his grandfather was. Childress had fielded cars for Ty for several years; and is rumored to be working with other teams to have his grandson a ride. This season; like all others, Ty has run in Cup was dismal. Dillon is a pretty decent dirt racer, so it is no surprise his only top ten finish

of the year came at Bristol on the dirt, as he managed to finish tenth. He had 25 finishes of 20th or worse. Only four finishes of 15th or better. These finishes were unacceptable for the Petty/GMS team, and in July it was announced that Dillon would not return to the #42 for 2023; as Noah Gragson would fill the seat. He ended the season 29th in points. In October; Spire Motorsports announced that Dillon would drive the #77 Cup car full time in 2023. A Spire Motorsport driver did luck into one win back in 2019 when their driver Justin Haley just happened to be leading when it started raining and the race was called. Their teams have made 216 combined

starts and other than that one win; in four seasons their drivers have only posted four total top five finishes. So, it was not expected Ty would be anything but a field filler in 2023 and that was pretty much the case. Team-mate Corey LaJoie showed much improvement over the last two season, but Dillon had shown no improvement at all. For 2023, he didn’t have a single finish inside the Top 10. In fact; his best finish came at Daytona where he finished 11th. His next best finish was 14th at Talladega. He had 32 finishes of 20th or worse; and had 14 finishes of 30th or worse; in a season when many races only had 36 starters.

It was announced late in the season that Dillon would be let go from his ride and Carson Hocevar would be brought up from the Truck series to take over that ride. Spire added a third car; the #71 that Truck series driver Zane Smith will pilot. It is not known at this time where Ty Dillon will race in 2024. Some rumors have him driving the #16 for Kaulig Racing in the Cup series; but that seems like a poor replacement for AJ Allmendinger. One can only assume Dillon may be able to bring along sponsorship to keep a Cup ride. We will see. Some info from Wikipedia

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TYLER REED "TY" DILLON - 02/27/1992