Ty Dillon

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Ty Dillon

Dillon at the 2011 UNOH Dirtcar Nationals

Born

February 27, 1992
Lewisville, North Carolina, U.S.

Achievements

2011 ARCA Racing Series Champion

Awards

2012 Camping World Truck Series Rookie of the Year
2013 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Most Popular Driver

NASCAR Nationwide Series career

12 race(s) run over 2 year(s)

Car no., team

No. 3 (Richard Childress Racing)

2013 position

105th

Best finish

105th (2013)

First race

2012 5-hour Energy 200 (Dover)

Last race

2013 Ford EcoBoost 300 (Homestead)

Wins	Top tens	Poles
0	4	0

NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career

47 race(s) run over 3 year(s)

2013 position

2nd

Best finish

2nd (2013)

First race

2011 Kentucky 225 (Kentucky)

Last race

2013 Ford EcoBoost 200 (Homestead)

First win

2012 Jeff Foxworthy's Grit Chips 200 (Atlanta)

Last win

2013 WinStar World Casino 350K (Texas)

Wins	Top tens	Poles
3	31	4

NASCAR Canadian Tire Series career

2 race(s) run over 1 year(s)

2013 position

42nd

Best finish

42nd (2013)

First race

2013 Pinty's Presents the Vortex 200 (Mosport)

Last race

2013 Pinty's Presents the Clarington 200 (Mosport)

Wins	Top tens	Poles
0	1	0

Statistics current as of November 16, 2013.

Ty Dillon (born February 27, 1992) is an American stock car racing driver. He is the younger brother of 2011 Camping World Truck Series champion Austin Dillon, son of former driver Mike Dillon and grandson of Richard Childress. Dillon competes in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, driving the No. 3 Chevrolet Camaro for Richard Childress Racing.

Personal life

Ty Dillon is the brother of Austin Dillon, currently driving in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, and the son of Mike Dillon, former NASCAR Busch Series driver.^[1] He is also the grandson of Hall of Fame car owner Richard Childress.^[2]^[3] On December 28, 2013, Dillon announced his engagement to his girlfriend Haley.^[4]

Career

Dillon at Rockingham Speedway in 2012

Dillon began his racing career in Bandolero minicars.^[5] Moving up to the K&N Pro Series East in 2009,^[6] he competed for the series championship in 2010, finishing 13th in points despite only competing in eight races of the series' ten-race schedule.^[7] He scored one win in the series, in August 2010 at Gresham Motorsports Park.^[8]

After making three starts and winning twice, at Kansas Speedway and Rockingham Speedway, in the ARCA Racing Series in 2010,^[9] Dillon ran his first full season in the series in 2011, winning seven times on his way to winning the series championship.^[3]^[10] He defeated Chris Buescher by a 340-point margin for the championship,^[11] but lost the series rookie-of-the-year award to Buescher by two points.^[12]

Dillon made his debut in the Camping World Truck Series in 2011,^[5] finshing eighteenth at Kentucky Speedway,^[13] 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.^[14] At Homestead, he finished 9th, right in front of his brother Austin, who was crowned champion that night after the race was called due to rain.^[15]

In the 2012 NextEra Energy Resources 250 at Daytona, he finished 9th.^[16] The following race at Martinsville saw Dillon score his best career finish, 2nd, finishing behind teammate Kevin Harvick.^[17] Having scored top ten finishes in each of the first five Truck Series races of the year, Dillon made his debut in the Nationwide Series in the 5-hour Energy 200 at Dover International Speedway in early June 2012.^[18] In July he finished third in the first Nationwide Series race held at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.^[19] On August 31, 2012 he scored his first career Camping World Truck Series win at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

Returning to the Camping World Truck Series in 2013, Dillon went on to win at Kentucky Speedway in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series on June 27 of that year. In August, it was announced that Dillon would be moving full-time to the Nationwide Series for 2014, where he would drive the No. 3 Chevrolet for RCR, replacing brother Austin.^[20]

In late August 2013, Dillon was leading the final lap of the truck series' first race in Canada against 17 year old rookie Chase Elliott. In the final turn, Dillon and Elliott made contact, with Dillon winding up hitting the tire barrier and Elliott winning the race. Dillon afterwards stated that the next time they raced each other "he won't finish the race".^[21] At Texas, Dillon won the 100th race for a #3 car/truck in NASCAR.^[22]

Dillon finished second in the 2013 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series standings, behind Matt Crafton; he was named the series' Most Popular Driver at the season-ending awards banquet.^[23]

Motorsports career results

NASCAR

(key) (Bold - Pole position awarded by time. Italics - Pole position earned by points standings. * – Most laps led.)

Nationwide Series

NASCAR Nationwide Series results
Season	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	NNSC	Points
2012	Richard Childress Racing	33	Chevrolet	DAY	PHO	LVS	BRI	CAL	TEX	RCH	TAL	DAR	IOW	CLT	DOV 7	MCH	ROA	KEN	DAY	NHA	CHI																117th	0¹
2012		51																				IND 3	IOW	GLN	CGV	BRI	ATL	RCH 7	CHI	KEN	DOV	CLT	KAN	TEX	PHO	HOM	117th	0¹
2013		33		DAY	PHO	LVS 11	BRI	CAL	TEX	RCH	TAL 24	DAR 13	CLT	DOV 23	IOW	MCH	ROA	KEN	DAY 27	NHA	CHI	IND	IOW	GLN	MOH	BRI 7	ATL	RCH 16	CHI	KEN	DOV	KAN	CLT	TEX 12	PHO	HOM 14	105th	0¹

Camping World Truck Series

NASCAR Camping World Truck Series results
Season	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	Pos	Points
2011	Kevin Harvick Inc.	21	Chevy	DAY	PHO	DAR	MAR	NSH	DOV	CLT	KAN	TEX	KEN	IOW	NSH	IRP	POC	MCH	BRI	ATL	CHI	NHA	KEN	LVS	TAL	MAR 18	TEX 3	HOM 6	39th	105
2012	Richard Childress Racing	3	Chevy	DAY 9	MAR 2	CAR 8	KAN 9	CLT 10	DOV 6	TEX 7	KEN 3	IOW 7	CHI 12	POC 6	MCH 6	BRI 21	ATL 1	IOW 2	KEN 3	LVS 10	TAL 4^*	MAR 28	TEX 5	PHO 15	HOM 25				4th	784
2013	Richard Childress Racing	3	Chevy	DAY 6^*	MAR 18	CAR 12	KAN 8	CLT 5	DOV 31	TEX 2^*	KEN 1	IOW 16^*	ELD 16	POC 20	MCH 3	BRI 6	MSP 17^*	IOW 3	CHI 5	LVS 4	TAL 14^*	MAR 22	TEX 1^*	PHO 4	HOM 14				2nd	764

^* Season in progress
¹ Ineligible for series points

References

↑ "About TDR". Team Dillon Racing. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
↑ "Richard Childress Is Member of 2012 International Motorsports Hall of Fame Class". Alabama Travel Council. September 27, 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-10-06. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
↑ 3.0 3.1 Markey, Matt (October 12, 2011). "Lack of drama won't kill buzz at ARCA". Toledo Blade. Toledo, OH. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
↑ "TY DILLON GETS ENGAGED". NASCAR. December 29, 2013. Retrieved 2014-01-05.
↑ 5.0 5.1 "Austin and Ty Dillon in Trucks race". ESPN. September 30, 2011. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
↑ "Statistical Advance: Analyzing the South Boston 150 at South Boston Speedway". NASCAR.com. March 31, 2010. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
↑ Sullivan, Bill (February 17, 2011). "RCR's Dillon Heads West to Return to the GGRT Stable in Phoenix". Golden Gate Racing Team. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
↑ "Ty Dillon Bags First East Victory". National Speed Sport News. August 29, 2010. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
↑ "Ty Dillon wins ARCA race at Rockingham Speedway". USA Today. McLean, VA. October 10, 2010. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
↑ Utter, Jim (October 17, 2011). "Cup's fuel injection tests start". The News & Observer. Raleigh, NC. Retrieved 2011-10-18.
↑ Kelly, Kevin (October 19, 2011). "Dan Wheldon's death likely to bring changes". Cincinnati.com. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
↑ "Buescher Wins and Dillon Takes Title". Motor Racing Network. October 16, 2011. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
↑ "Hornaday holds on for 50th Truck Series victory". Sporting News Wire Service. NASCAR.com. October 3, 2011. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
↑ Turner, Jared (September 29, 2011). "CUP: Weekly NASCAR News And Notes". SPEED Channel. Retrieved 2011-10-18.
↑ Aumann, Mark (February 4, 2012). "Dillon happy to be called 'Austin's little brother'". NASCAR.com. Turner Sports. Retrieved 2012-04-12.
↑ Strelow, Bret (April 10, 2012). "NASCAR trucks series driver Ty Dillon hopes to build on success at Rockingham". Fayetteville Observer. Fayetteville, North Carolina. Retrieved 2012-04-12.
↑ Menzer, Joe (April 11, 2012). "Six Pack of Pop: Family Ty's". NASCAR.com. Turner Sports. Retrieved 2012-04-12.
↑ Pistone, Pete (May 29, 2012). "Ty Dillon Nationwide debut set for Dover". Eye on NASCAR. CBS Sports. Retrieved 2012-05-29.
↑ Gorches, Steve T. (July 28, 2012). "Brad Keselowski wins Nationwide race at Indy". Post-Tribune. Merrillville, IN. Retrieved 2012-07-29.
↑ "Yuengling Brewery joins RCR and Ty Dillon for 2014 Nationwide Season". Richard Childress Racing. August 19, 2013. Retrieved 2013-08-19.
↑ "Chase Elliott wins road-course race". Fox Sports. September 1, 2013. Retrieved 2013-09-01.
↑ Spencer, Reid (November 1, 2013). "Ty Dillon laims 100th win for No. 3 at RCR". NASCAR. Retrieved 2013-11-08.
↑ Pockrass, Bob (November 19, 2013). "Popular drivers: Ty Dillon hears boos, Regan Smith hears more cheers". Sporting News. Retrieved 2013-11-19.

External links

Official website
Ty Dillon driver statistics at Racing Reference

Sporting positions
Preceded by Patrick Sheltra	ARCA Racing Series Champion 2011	Succeeded by Chris Buescher
Achievements
Preceded by Joey Coulter	NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Rookie of the Year 2012	Succeeded by Ryan Blaney
Preceded by Nelson Piquet, Jr.	NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Most Popular Driver 2013	Succeeded by Incumbent

Richard Childress Racing

Personnel

Drivers

Sprint Cup Series	(3) Austin Dillon (27) Paul Menard (31) Ryan Newman (33) Brian Scott

Nationwide Series	(2) Brian Scott (3) Ty Dillon (62) Brendan Gaughan

Camping World Truck Series	(3) Jeffrey Earnhardt

Past drivers

Partnerships
and affiliations

v t e NASCAR Rookies of the Year

Sprint Cup	1954: Pitt 1957: Rush 1958: Rollins 1959: R. Petty 1960: D. Pearson 1961: Wilson 1962: Cox 1963: Wade 1964: Cooper 1965: McQuagg 1966: Hylton 1967: Do. Allison 1968: P. Hamilton 1969: Brooks 1970: Dennis 1971: Ballard 1972: L. Smith 1973: Pond 1974: Ross 1975: B. Hill 1976: Manning 1977: Rudd 1978: Thomas 1979: Earnhardt 1980: Ridley 1981: R. Bouchard 1982: G. Bodine 1983: Marlin 1984: R. Wallace 1985: Schrader 1986: Kulwicki 1987: Da. Allison 1988: K. Bouchard 1989: Trickle 1990: Moroso 1991: B. Hamilton 1992: Hensley 1993: Gordon 1994: J. Burton 1995: Craven 1996: Benson 1997: Skinner 1998: Irwin 1999: Stewart 2000: Kenseth 2001: Harvick 2002: Newman 2003: McMurray 2004: Kahne 2005: Ky. Busch 2006: Hamlin 2007: Montoya 2008: R. Smith 2009: Logano 2010: Conway 2011: Lally 2012: Leicht 2013: Stenhouse, Jr.

Nationwide Series	1989: K. Wallace 1990: Nemechek 1991: J. Gordon 1992: Craven 1993: H. Sadler 1994: Benson 1995: Fuller 1996: G. Allen, Jr. 1997: Park 1998: Santerre 1999: Raines 2000: Harvick 2001: Biffle 2002: Riggs 2003: Stremme 2004: Ky. Busch 2005: C. Edwards 2006: O'Quinn 2007: Ragan 2008: Cassill 2009: Allgaier 2010: Stenhouse, Jr. 2011: T. Hill 2012: A. Dillon 2013: K. Larson

Camping World Truck	1996: Reffner 1997: Irwin 1998: Biffle 1999: Stefanik 2000: Ku. Busch 2001: Kvapil 2002: Gaughan 2003: C. Edwards 2004: Reutimann 2005: Kluever 2006: Darnell 2007: W. Allen 2008: Braun 2009: Jo. Sauter 2010: A. Dillon 2011: Coulter 2012: T. Dillon 2013: R. Blaney

Persondata
Name	Dillon, Ty
Alternative names
Short description	American stock car racing driver
Date of birth	February 27, 1992
Place of birth	Lewisville, North Carolina, USA
Date of death
Place of death

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