Ty Dillon to link up with Richard Childress Racing for another NASCAR Cup Series start

NASCAR driver Ty Dillon will be back behind the wheel of a car in the Cup Series on Sunday when he takes a seat for Richard Childress Racing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

RCR and Dillon announced the news on Tuesday, revealing that he will be racing the No. 33 Titan Risk Solutions Chevrolet in the Brickyard 400.

Dillon, who is currently plying his trade in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, will be returning to the Cup Series for his 243rd lifetime race. While he doesn’t have a Cup Series win under his belt, he has won at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in the Xfinity Series.

“I’m excited to once again race on the oval at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, especially behind the wheel of the No. 33 Titan Risk Solutions Chevrolet,” Dillon said in a press release. “Kissing the bricks at the historic track is a special moment that I’ve been fortunate enough to experience with RCR. Every time we go to Indy, the memories come back. I’m grateful for the opportunity and look forward to having a great showing while representing Titan Risk Solutions.”

Dillon’s last NASCAR Cup Series race came earlier this year at Loudon, in the USA TODAY 301, for Kaulig Racing. He finished P16.

Denny Hamlin predicts chaos at Brickyard 400

Denny Hamlin believes that the Cup Series race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday will be a little chaotic for drivers. On the Actions Detrimental podcast, Hamlin talked about the race track and compared it to Pocono Raceway.

“It will be a track-position type racetrack, Hamlin said about Indy. “It’s going to be wild on restarts. I think you’ll have restarts very similar to Pocono where guys are trying to fit it in spots that are not there.”

Hamlin went on to say that the track in Indianapolis is more narrow than what the drivers saw at Pocono this past weekend in NASCAR.

“Pocono at least has two and a half to three legit lanes. If you put the cars side-by-side-by-side of each other, it’s three lanes wide,” he said. “That means that’s actually two lanes wide when you’re actually racing because you got to leave a little bit of room.

“Indy is one lane. And when I say one lane, it’s one lane. …We all know being on the outside is not going to be preferred at that place. You’re gonna want to be on the bottom, and then what’s going to happen is we’re going to go down these long straightaways, and everyone’s going to try three-wide bottom. Everyone’s going to try to merge, and usually you’re probably going to see a lot of wrecks late.”