“I think our goal is to more or less, run more consistently – inside the top 15, top 10 – and I think that’s a very achievable goal,” Dillon said. The final two races in particular, Dillon saw improvements in his performance he finished a season-best 11th at Phoenix and was running 13th at Miami before he was lumbered with a flat tire in the final laps. He wasn’t able to secure any top-10 finishes, but he did improve from his qualifying position in 27 of his 36 finishes. He finished 24th in the standings last season, leading 40 laps. On the race track, Dillon also looks to improve after one year in the Monster Energy Series.
MORE: Ty Dillon’s career NASCAR statistics Everybody could relate to him so well and he did such a great job of making people feel they are just like Dale Earnhardt, even though he’s a race car driver. He’s obviously the top level of fandom in our sport. “… Something that has bothered me about our sport in the ‘90s and 2000s everybody said they could relate so well to Dale Earnhardt. “I have such a platform and I don’t think a lot of people realize what we have,” Dillon said. He will video blog his entire year and hired someone to attend 36 events - both races and other happenings - with him throughout the season to capture behind-the-scenes content. That brand starts with openness off the track in the early months of 2018, Dillon has taken action to improve and increase his communication with fans. “I want to race for Germain Racing and GEICO my whole career and win races and championships and build my own brand like Kobe Bryant and the (Los Angeles) Lakers.” But I want people to know me … and who I am. … There are a lot of things my brother and I can do that are great and I still want to work with my grandfather. “As much as I love having … my family in the sport and my grandfather is an owner and how much I would love to win races and championships for him, I think I needed to break out of that grandson-brother shadow that I had. “I think there was something inside of me that wanted to break out of that a little bit,” Dillon said.
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While he started out at Richard Childress in the NASCAR Xfinity Series and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series in 2012, the 25-year-old driver prefers the new path that he’s carved for himself now that he’s reached the sport’s top level. This marks Dillon’s second season with single-car Germain Racing, a team that he plans to stick with despite his deep roots with Richard Childress Racing (his grandfather is team owner Richard Childress while his older brother is driver Austin Dillon). And I think that’s what we’re going to do and I think you kind of embrace that island-y feel and go to work with it.” Ty Dillon (right) poses with Richard Childress and Austin Dillon after winning a Texas Camping World Truck Series race in 2013. The opportunity is there now it’s about us making the most of it.
“Somebody’s done it as a small team that uses technical alliances and can win a championship. We’ve got to do it in our own way and use our resources the right way, but I think that’s kind of the approach that we’re taking … “You look at Furniture Row and that’s the gold standard right now for teams like ours. “I think the island’s a good place to be,” Dillon said at the 2018 NASCAR Media Tour presented by Charlotte Motor Speedway. That improvement is inspirational for Dillon. Last season - just three years later - he earned eight wins and a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series title with the same Denver, Colorado-based team. In 2014, Furniture Row led a lone lap with Truex and collected zero wins. To Dillon, being on an island doesn’t mean isolation it means a chance to do something unexpectedly great, like reigning champion Martin Truex Jr. 13 GEICO Chevrolet, while the mainland is Germain’s allied team of Richard Childress Racing. The island is Germain Racing, which houses Dillon’s No. Ty Dillon is feeling content on an island - but he’s not stuck in the sand on this one.
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