AUSTIN, Tex. – So far this season, Richard Childress Racing is batting 1.000, having swept all available Playoff points in the first two races of the year.
Jesse Love won the season opener at Daytona in the No. 2 RCR Chevrolet. A week later, Austin Hill put the No. 21 RCR Camaro in Victory Lane at Atlanta for the fifth time in the last six races at the 1.54-mile drafting track.
In addition, Hill swept the first two stages of both races. He dominated at Daytona before falling out of the race because of a rear end gear failure.
Though Hill has never won a road course race, he cautions against discounting his chances in Saturday’s Focused Health 250 at the Circuit of The Americas (2:30 p.m. ET on CW, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
“I’ve been so close to winning one of the road courses,” said Hill, who gave team owner Richard Childress his 99th Xfinity Series win last Saturday. “I hope going into COTA that we can be the one on top, and we can be sitting here talking to all of you (reporters) and have that 100th win.
“It would be extremely special.”
Hill’s path to Victory Lane won’t be an easy one. Last year’s NASCAR Cup Series winner at COTA, William Byron, is driving the No. 17 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet that carried Kyle Larson to victory in last season’s Xfinity Series race.
Ross Chastain, who won the Cup race at COTA in 2022, is pulling double duty, and talented road course racers Connor Zilisch and Sam Mayer also are likely contenders for the victory.
Source: Reid Spencer | NASCAR Wire Service
