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.

Richard Boswell serves as crew chief of the No. 3 Chevrolet in the NASCAR Cup Series with driver Austin Dillon at Richard Childress Racing. The 2026 season marks the veteran crew chief’s second year being paired with Dillon.

In their first year together, Boswell led Dillon to a dominating race win at Richmond Raceway in which Dillon led 107 laps, including the final 49 laps, to earn back-to-back wins at the Virginia short track. The win earned the No. 3 team a spot in the NASCAR Playoffs, where they ultimately finished 15th in the point standings.

Boswell has more than 15 years of professional motorsports experience as a crew chief, engineer and driver. Prior to joining the No. 3 team, he worked as a crew chief in the NASCAR Cup Series for Stewart-Haas Racing with driver Chase Briscoe. The duo was paired together from June 2023 through the end of 2024, with Boswell leading Briscoe to one win, four top-five finishes, 13 top-10 finishes and one pole award in one-and-a-half seasons.

Boswell is also an experienced crew chief in the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series, with 161 starts leading drivers such Briscoe, Riley Herbst, Kevin Harvick, Aric Almirola and Cole Custer to a total of nine wins, 50 top-five finishes, 95 top-10 finishes and four pole awards from 2016-2023.

Boswell simultaneously worked on his college degree and gained experience as a race engineer at JR Motorsports, honing his skills in race simulation, kinematics, data acquisition, 7-Post testing, and vehicle dynamics, in addition to working with drivers such as Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kasey Kahne, Danica Patrick, Jamie McMurray and Regan Smith. Boswell advanced to the NASCAR Cup Series in 2014 where he joined Hendrick Motorsports’ No. 48 team with driver Jimmie Johnson before returning to JR Motorsports in 2015.

A former racer himself, Boswell made one start in the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series in 2009 at Memphis Motorsports Park, where he qualified third and finished 23rd. He’s an experienced Late Model racer and made 19 starts in the Hooters Pro Cup Series for JR Motorsports, earning three top-five finishes. Boswell won multiple World Karting Association national titles in 1998. Boswell is a second-generation racer and grew up watching his father, Dickie Boswell, race Late Models throughout Maryland. The elder Boswell made 57 NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series starts over the course of six seasons in the 1980s.

Boswell holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

A native of West Friendship, Maryland, Boswell currently resides in Mooresville, NC. Married to Ashley. Father to three daughters, Elizabeth, Grace and Juliette, and son Warne