1. Tyler Reed Dillon was born on February 27,1992 and is an American professional stock car racing driver.
66 Facts About Ty Dillon
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Ty Dillon competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No 10 Chevrolet ZL1 for Kaulig Racing.
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Ty Dillon has competed in what is the ARCA Menards Series, what are now the ARCA Menards Series East and West, and what is known as the NASCAR Canada Series in the past.
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Ty Dillon is the 2011 ARCA Racing Series champion and was the series' youngest champion at 19 years, 7 months, and 19 days until Ty Gibbs broke this record when he won the 2021 ARCA Menards Series championship at 19 years, 0 months and 19 days.
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Ty Dillon has spent most of his NASCAR career driving for Richard Childress Racing and affiliated teams.
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Ty Dillon is the younger brother of fellow NASCAR driver Austin Dillon, who drives RCR's No 3 Cup Series car full-time.
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Ty Dillon's father is RCR general manager Mike Dillon, who is a retired NASCAR driver.
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Ty Dillon scored one win in the series, in August 2010 at Gresham Motorsports Park.
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Ty Dillon 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.
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Ty Dillon made his debut in the Camping World Truck Series in 2011, finishing eighteenth at Kentucky Speedway, in preparation for running the full series schedule for Richard Childress Racing in 2012.
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Ty Dillon recorded Top 10 finishes in each of the first five Truck Series races of the year.
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In late August 2013, Ty Dillon was leading the final lap of the Truck Series' first race in Canada against 17-year-old rookie Chase Elliott.
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Ty Dillon afterward stated that the next time they raced each other "he won't finish the race".
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Ty 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.
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In 2014, Ty Dillon returned to the Truck Series for the Mudsummer Classic at Eldora Speedway, racing the same truck he had driven in the previous year's race.
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Ty Dillon later entered the final race of the season in the No 9 for NTS Motorsports in place of Brennan Newberry, finishing 7th.
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In 2015, Ty Dillon drove three races in the No 33 Chevrolet for GMS Racing at Daytona, Atlanta, and Eldora where he earned two Top 10's in these races.
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Ty Dillon drove one race in the No 31 Chevrolet for NTS Motorsports at Bristol where he crashed late in the race.
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Ty Dillon returned to the CWTS in 2017 at Martinsville, driving the No 99 Chevrolet Silverado for MDM Motorsports and finished 5th.
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Ty Dillon ran at Eldora for the Mudsummer Classic, finishing 12th.
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Ty Dillon stepped out of the seat prior to the Kansas race in favor of Dawson Sutton, with Ty Dillon assuming role as his coach and mentor.
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In early June 2012, Ty Dillon made his debut in the Nationwide Series in the 5-hour Energy 200 at Dover International Speedway.
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Ty Dillon won his first career Nationwide Series pole at Las Vegas.
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On July 26,2014, at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Ty Dillon got by Kyle Busch on the final restart and held off Busch to win the race.
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Ty Dillon finished 2nd to Chase Elliott in the 2014 NNS Rookie of the Year standings.
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In 2015, Ty Dillon began with a 3rd-place finish at the season opener at Daytona.
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In 2016 at the season-opening race at Daytona, Ty Dillon scored his fourth career Xfinity Series pole and his first since the 2014 season.
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Ty Dillon brought home a $100,000 bonus by winning the Dash 4 Cash at Richmond finishing second, after the three other Dash 4 Cash drivers all crashed out of the race in the same wreck, late in the going.
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Ty Dillon made the Chase in 2016 on points but was eliminated after a close battle with Justin Allgaier.
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Ty Dillon finished 5th in points for 2016 with five season-best 2nd-place finishes.
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Ty Dillon ran 27 Xfinity races in 2017; he did not run the Iowa races in June and July, Road America, Mid-Ohio, Kentucky in September, and Homestead.
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At the Xfinity opener at Daytona, Ty Dillon was running up front until the last restart when he ran out of fuel and finished 19th.
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In 2018, Ty Dillon ran a few Xfinity races in the No 3 Camaro as other drivers were sharing the same ride.
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Ty Dillon did not run any races in the series in 2019 and 2020.
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On January 27,2021, it was announced that Ty Dillon would drive for Joe Gibbs Racing in their No 54 Toyota part-time in the Xfinity Series in 2021, running the season opener at Daytona, Homestead, Las Vegas, and Talladega in the spring.
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On July 15,2014, RCR announced Ty Dillon would make his Sprint 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.
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Ty Dillon returned to the No 33 for the Quicken Loans Race for Heroes 500 at Phoenix International Raceway, qualifying 26th and finishing 27th.
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Ty Dillon ran the No 14 for Stewart-Haas Racing, substituting for an injured Tony Stewart.
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Ty Dillon took over for Regan Smith in the No 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.
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On November 28,2016, it was announced that Ty 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.
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Ty Dillon began the 2017 season with a crash in the Daytona 500.
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Ty Dillon followed this up with a 16th-place finish at Phoenix, a 22nd-place finish at Martinsville, and then a 17th-place finish at Texas.
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Ty Dillon followed this finish with a 15th-place finish outing at Bristol and then a 26th-place finish outing at Richmond.
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At Talladega, Ty Dillon finished a career-best 13th, after avoiding the "Big One".
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Ty Dillon followed this finish with a 14th-place outing at Kansas.
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Ty Dillon led 27 laps at Dover and was running with the leaders but wrecked in overtime and finished 14th.
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At Daytona, Ty Dillon had the lead with 3 to go but faded to 16th on the final restart.
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Ty Dillon managed to run as high as 5th-place in overtime.
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At Bristol, Ty Dillon won his first stage ever after holding off Clint Bowyer in a two-lap shootout after a restart in stage 1, finishing the race in 15th.
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The next week at Las Vegas, Ty Dillon finished 10th, his first Top 10 at a non-plate track.
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At the YellaWood 500 at Talladega on October 4,2020, Ty Dillon originally crossed the line and tied his best finish of 4th, but when Matt DiBenedetto was penalized for forcing someone below the yellow line, Ty Dillon was promoted to third and that would be a new career-best finish for him.
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In Germain Racing's final season, Ty Dillon finished 26th in the points standings.
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On October 10,2021, GMS Racing announced that Ty Dillon would drive the No 94 Chevrolet in their inaugural Cup season in 2022.
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On July 16,2022, Ty Dillon confirmed that he would not return to the team in 2023.
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On October 18,2022, Spire Motorsports announced that Ty Dillon would drive the No 77 full-time in 2023.
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Ty Dillon began the season with a 40th-place DNF at the 2023 Daytona 500.
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Ty Dillon struggled throughout the season, failing to score a Top 10 finish and only ending up in the Top 20 on five occasions.
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Ty Dillon finished 32nd in the standings, last among all full-time drivers.
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On October 10,2023, Spire announced that Ty Dillon would be replaced by Carson Hocevar for the 2024 season.
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On March 25,2024, Kaulig Racing announced that Ty Dillon would drive the No 16 in five-race deal, starting with the Richmond spring race.
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On July 15, it was announced that Ty Dillon would drive for Richard Childress Racing in the No 33 for the first time since 2015 at the Brickyard 400 in Indianapolis.
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Ty Dillon will drive the renumbered No 10, replacing Daniel Hemric.
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On June 16,2014, Ty Dillon announced he would make his Trans-Am Series debut at Road America for Miller Racing in the No 12 TA2 Chevy Camaro.
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Ty Dillon's grandfather is Richard Childress, a North Carolina businessman and former professional stock car racing driver who owns NASCAR team Richard Childress Racing.
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On December 28,2013, Ty Dillon announced his engagement to his girlfriend Haley Carey, a former driver herself and Charlotte Hornets cheerleader.
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On December 5,2019, Ty Dillon announced he would leave TDM and join fellow competitor Kevin Harvick's KHI Management Agency.