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AUSTIN
DILLON

- Now a seasoned NASCAR veteran, 2026 marks Dillon’s 13th year driving the No. 3 Chevrolet Camaro for Richard Childress Racing. This season, he is paired with veteran NASCAR Cup Series crew chief Richard Boswell for the duo’s second full season together.

- Dillon is a multi-time winner in the NASCAR Cup Series. He earned dominating wins at Richmond Raceway in 2024 and 2025, becoming the first RCR driver since Dale Earnhardt to secure back-to-back victories at the Virginia short track. He won the last race of the regular season at Daytona International Speedway in August 2022 to clinch the final spot in the NASCAR Playoffs. Other notable wins in his NASCAR Cup Series career include the 2018 Daytona 500, which Dillon won with a dramatic, last lap pass. He earned his career-first Cup Series win in NASCAR’s longest race of the season – the Coca-Cola 600 – at his home track in Charlotte, North Carolina, over Memorial Day weekend in 2017. All told, Dillon owns six points-paying victories (Richmond – September 2025, Richmond - September 2024, Daytona - August 2022, Texas - July 2020, Daytona - February 2018, Charlotte - May 2017) and one non-points-paying Duel at Daytona (February 2021) race win in the NASCAR Cup Series. Dillon has advanced to NASCAR’s post-season – the NASCAR Playoffs – six times in his career, with a season-best points finish of 11th (2022, 2020, 2017).

- A former champion in the NASCAR Xfinity Series (2013) and NASCAR Truck Series (2011), Dillon is a 21-time winner in NASCAR’s top-three touring series.

- Dillon has six career pole awards in the NASCAR Cup Series, notably earning the pole award for the Daytona 500 in 2014.

- He is a two-time NASCAR Rookie of the Year Award winner (2010 in the NASCAR Truck Series and 2012 in the NASCAR Xfinity Series).

- Outside of racing, Dillon starred in Austin Dillon’s Life in the Fast Lane on USA Network, a family-friendly reality show focused on Dillon, his family and friends. He is also the general manager of the Carolina Cowboys, a professional bull riding team in the PBR Teams league. He is a passionate outdoorsman, conservationist and enjoys playing sports in his spare time.

- Notably, Dillon played in the Little League World Series in 2002 and is enshrined in the Little Lague Hall of Excellence.

- Resides in Welcome, N.C. Married to Whitney. The couple has one son, Ace RC Dillon, and a daughter, Blaize Austin Dillon.

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