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The 2024 season marks Hill’s third season driving the No. 21 Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. In 2023, Hill earned four race wins (including a second consecutive victory in the season-opening event at the prestigious Daytona International Speedway), 16 top five and 24 top 10 finishes, along with three poles in Xfinity Series competition. He claimed the Xfinity Series regular season championship and a fifth-place result in the year-end driver championship point standings. During his Xfinity Series rookie campaign in 2022, Hill captured two wins, one pole, 11 top five and 21 top 10 results. He won Rookie of the Year honors and finished sixth in the overall driver championship point standings.
Hill spent five full seasons in the NASCAR Truck Series and totaled eight wins, three poles, 27 top five and 52 top 10 finishes throughout his series career. He finished a career-best fifth in the Truck Series championship driver standings in 2020 and qualified for the Playoffs three times in his career (2019-2021). In 2020, Hill won the Truck Series regular-season championship title and accumulated two wins, 11 top five and 17 top 10 results. He got his first Truck Series win at Daytona International Speedway in 2019 and went on to win three more times that season.
Hill has made 15 Xfinity Series starts from 2019-2021, grabbing one top five and four top 10 finishes. During that three-year span, he earned a career-best result at Kansas Speedway in 2020 (fifth). Before competing in the Truck Series, Hill raced in the ARCA Menards Series East fulltime in 2014 and 2015. In that time, he tallied one pole, four wins, 12 top-five and 21 top-10 finishes.
Married to Ashlyn. The couple has two daughters, Lynnlee and Kensley, and a son, Barrett.
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Andy Street is the crew chief of the No. 21 Chevrolet Camaro SS for Richard Childress Racing with driver Austin Hill in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. 2024 marks the pair’s third year working together, as well as Street’s fifth year as a crew chief and his 21st overall with the Welcome, N.C.-based company.
Street led the No. 21 team to an incredible four wins, 16 top-five and 24 top-10 finishes over the course of the 33-race NASCAR Xfinity Series season in 2023, qualifying them for the NASCAR Playoffs and narrowly missing a berth in the Championship Four. In addition to earning the three pole awards, The No. 21 team earned race wins at Daytona International Speedway (February), Las Vegas Motor Speedway (March), Atlanta Motor Speedway (March) and Pocono Raceway (July).
During the duo’s first season working together in 2022, Street guided Hill to two NASCAR Xfinity Series race wins (Daytona International Speedway – February and Atlanta Motor Speedway – July) among 21 top-10 finishes and advanced to the Round of 8 in the NASCAR Playoffs. Hill was also named the Xfinity Series Rookie of the Year.
Prior to working with Hill, Street spent the 2021 season working with driver Myatt Snider in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. Together, they won at Homestead-Miami Speedway and claimed 11 top-10 finishes enroute to a berth in the NASCAR Playoffs. During his first year as a crew chief for RCR, Street worked with a multi-driver lineup of Snider, Anthony Alfredo, Kaz Grala and Earl Bamber, earning five top-five finishes and a season-best third-place effort at Texas Motor Speedway with Alfredo.
In 2018 Street took a brief hiatus from NASCAR and the RCR organization to work as the crew co-chief for Tanner Gray in the National Hot Rod Association Pro Stock division, winning the division title before returning back to RCR.
Prior to his contributions to RCR’s NASCAR Xfinity Series program, Street worked in a variety of positions at RCR, including team engineer and design engineer specializing in chassis and suspension systems. He played a vital role as team engineer within RCR’s Cup Series program, helping deliver success across the board. Most notably, Street worked with drivers Kevin Harvick and Clint Bowyer, combining to win 10 races. Street also played a key role in the team’s Research and Development program, which elevated the entire organization’s competition department. His career at RCR began in 2003.
The Kernersville, N.C. native competed in drag racing events while he was still in high school, earning his first win in 1996 at Farmington Dragway. He competed in the Sportsman Bracket program behind the wheel of a 1972 Chevrolet Nova and a 1981 Chevrolet Camaro.
Street earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of North Carolina Charlotte.
