KYLE LARSON AND DYLAN KWASNIEWSKI PRODUCTS OF NASCAR LADDER SYSTEM

Dylan Kwasniewski

May 29, 2014 – NASCAR’s ladder system continues to produce winners like Kyle Larson who not only made his full-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career debut this season, but also posted his second NASCAR Nationwide Series career win this past weekend at Charlotte.

NASCAR provides a ladder system through several regional and international sanctioned series for drivers to learn what it takes to be a successful stock-car driver and move up the ranks into the national level of competition. Like Joey Logano a few years back, Larson is the latest benefactor of the NASCAR ladder system, but he is not alone.

Larson, a former NASCAR K&N Pro Series East champion, is joined by several K&N Pro Series ‘graduates’ this weekend at Dover, including his Turner Scott Motorsports teammate and fellow K&N Pro Series champ Dylan Kwasniewski.

Deemed as a ‘one to watch’ at the beginning of the season, Kwasniewski, a K&N Pro Series East and West champion, is currently 10th in NNS standings having posted an average finish of 18.1 through the first 11 races of the NNS season. Though Kwasniewski will be making his series track debut this weekend, he has logged laps at Dover in the K&N Pro Series East last season where he started 11th but finished 29th due mechanical issues.

Larson and Kwasniewski will also be joined by former K&N Pro Series race winners Ty Dillon, Trevor Bayne, Cale Conley, Matt DiBenedetto, Kyle Busch and Chase Elliott this weekend.

 

NASCAR Nationwide Series Etc.

The Delaware Office of Highway Safety will be at Dover International Speedway May 30-June 1, race weekend to promote and educate fans on the importance of wearing a seat belt on every trip and the ramifications that come with failing to do so as part of their title sponsorship of the NNS race. … Two-time NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion Todd Bodine will be making his second series start of the season for car owner Jimmy Dick this weekend at Dover. Bodine’s last full-time NNS season was in 2000. He has made 21 series starts at Dover posting three wins and an average finish of 13.3.

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TRIO OF ROOKIES SETTING HIGH EXPECTATIONS

Chase Elliott

February 27, 2014 – A loaded Sunoco Rookie of the Year class arrived last weekend in Daytona with the highest of expectations. At the end of the 121-lap race, Ty Dillon, Dylan Kwasniewski and Chase Elliott were the top rookie finishers all with top-20 finishes and seeded in the top 10 in the standings.

The series now heads west to Phoenix where all three drivers, whose average age is 19, will be making their first NNS starts at the one-mile track.

In two NCWTS starts at Phoenix, Dillon, who finished seventh in Saturday’s Daytona race, has finishes of fourth and 15th. He currently sits seventh (10 points behind leader Regan Smith), one spot and point ahead of Kwasniewski. Elliott finished 15th and is in eighth place, 18 points outside of first. In Elliott’s only truck series start at Phoenix, he finished 10th. Saturday marks Kwasniewski’s first start at the track in a national series event.

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