No. 54 Toyota Service Centers\Mobil 1 Toyota Supra News and Notes
DILLON AT LAS VEGAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY: Ty Dillon owns two top-10 finishes in five career NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) starts at Las Vegas Motor Speedway (LVMS). Dillon’s last NXS start at the 1.5-mile race trace was in 2017 where he started ninth and crossed the finish line 24th. Dillon also has seven NASCAR Cup Series starts at LVMS. His best finish came in 2020 when he finished 10th.
HOMESTEAD RECAP: Dillon scored a 37th-place finish last weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The veteran NASCAR driver was poised for a top-10 finish before a hole in the radiator ended his day on Lap 102.
CHANGE OF SCENERY: The 2021 season provides a new opportunity for the Lewisville, North Carolina native as Dillon joins Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) for select NXS races. These races include the season opener at DIS, Homestead-Miami Speedway (February 27), Las Vegas Motor Speedway (Mach 6) and Talladega Superspeedway (April 24).
ATOP THE PIT BOX: Veteran crew chief Chris Gayle will oversee the No. 54 team’s efforts this season. In his career, the Little Rock, Arkansas native has led his drivers to 2 NASCAR Cup Series victories and 20 Xfinity Series wins. The list of drivers Gayle has visited victory lane with includes Kyle Busch, Ty Gibbs, Denny Hamlin, Sam Hornish Jr., Erik Jones and Elliott Sadler.
JGR AT LAS VEGAS: The Joe Gibbs Racing Xfinity Series team owns two victories at Las Vegas Motor Speedway – both coming from Kyle Busch. Overall, the team has accumulated 18 top-five finishes, 33 top-10s and 926 laps led in 62 total starts at the 1.5-mile track.
TUNE IN: Coverage of this weekend’s Xfinity Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway is scheduled for Saturday, March 6, at 4:30 p.m. ET on FOX Sports 1, PRN Radio and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
Ty Dillon, Driver of the No. 54 Toyota Service Centers\Mobil 1 Toyota Supra
“I’m excited to be going back-to-back with JGR’s Xfinity Series team. We are heading to Vegas to hopefully rebound from some really bad luck last week. We had a really good Supra in Homestead but didn’t get to see it play out in the end. Vegas is a track that I have gotten better and better on in the last few years in the Cup Series, so it’s a place that I have a lot of confidence heading to. I’m looking forward to taking a race-winning car and going out to have a good performance.”
TIL NEXT TIME, I AM STILL WORKING ON MY REDNECK!
