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Introduction
Ty Dillon is an American professional stock car racing driver who competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 42 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 for Petty GMS Motorsports as well as part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 6 Chevrolet Camaro for JD Motorsports and the No. 48 Chevrolet Camaro for Big Machine Racing. He has also competed in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, what is now the ARCA Menards Series, what are now the ARCA Menards Series East and West and what is now known as the NASCAR Pinty’s Series in the past.
Dillon is the 2011 ARCA Racing Series champion and was the series’ youngest champion at 19 years, 7 months and 19 days until Ty Gibbs broke this record when he won the 2021 ARCA Menards Series championship at 19 years, 0 months and 19 days. Dillon has spent most of his NASCAR career driving for Richard Childress Racing and affiliated teams. RCR is owned by his grandfather Richard Childress.
He does weekly vlogs following his personal and racing life in a series called The Ride. Dillon formerly co-owned sports management agency Team Dillon Management with his brother Austin which currently manages both themselves, John Hunter Nemechek, A. J. Allmendinger, Anthony Alfredo, Tanner Thorson, Kaulig Racing, Brian Gay, and Chris Stroud. On December 5, 2019, Dillon announced he would leave TDM and join fellow competitor Kevin Harvick’s KHI Management Agency.
Early life
| Name | Ty Dillon |
| Net Worth | $5 million |
| Occupation | Racing driver |
| Age | 30 years |
| Height | 1.78m |
Tyler Reed “The Legend” Dillon was born on February 27, 1992 (age 30 years) in Welcome, North Carolina, United States. He is the son of American parents Tina Dillon, and Mike Dillon. Tyler is the younger brother of fellow NASCAR driver Austin Dillon, who drives RCR’s No. 3 Cup Series car full-time. His father is RCR general manager Mike Dillon, who is a retired NASCAR driver.
Dillon grew up in the Piedmont Triad of North Carolina with his parents, Mike Dillon (who is a retired NASCAR driver and current RCR team executive) and Tina Dillon, and his brother Austin, who also drives in the Cup Series. Dillon’s grandfather is Richard Childress, a North Carolina businessman and former professional stock car racing driver who owns NASCAR team Richard Childress Racing.
Racing career
Dillon started out racing in Bandolero minicars and go-karts. He moved up to the K&N Pro Series East in 2009, and in spite of just taking part in eight of the series’ ten events, he challenged for the title in 2010. He finished 13th in points. At Gresham Motorsports Park in August 2010, he earned his only series victory. Dillon drove his first full season in the ARCA Racing Series in 2011, winning seven times on route to earning the series title after making three starts and winning twice, at Kansas Speedway and Rockingham Speedway, in the series in 2010.
the title, however he was edged out by Buescher for the series rookie of the year by two points. In order to run the whole series calendar for Richard Childress Racing in 2012, Dillon made his Camping World Truck Series debut in 2011, finishing eighth at Kentucky Speedway. He came in third in only his second Truck Series outing at Texas Motor Speedway. In the rain-shortened race at Homestead, his brother Austin, who that night was named the winner, finished ahead of him in sixth place.
He came in ninth in the NextEra Energy Resources 250 at Daytona in 2012. Dillon finished 2nd, which was a career-best result, in the following race at Martinsville, behind teammate Kevin Harvick. In each of the year’s first five Truck Series races, he finished in the top 10. He won his first Truck Series race of his career at Atlanta Motor Speedway on August 31. 2013 saw Ty Dillon return to the Camping World Truck Series, and on June 27 of that year, he won at Kentucky Speedway in the Camping World Truck Series.
Late in August 2013, Dillon and rookie Chase Elliott, both 17 years old, were leading the Truck Series’ maiden race in Canada’s penultimate lap. When Dillon and Elliott collided in the last turn, Elliott went on to win the race while Dillon ended up hitting the tire barrier. Later, Dillon said that the next time they competed in a race, “he won’t complete the race.” Dillon won the 100th NASCAR race for a No. 3 car or truck in Texas. Behind Matt Crafton, Dillon came in second place in the 2013 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series standings. At the season-ending awards presentation, he was awarded the series’ Most Popular Driver.
For the Mudsummer Classic at Eldora Speedway in 2014, Ty Dillon made a comeback to the Truck Series, competing in the same truck he had used for the previous year’s event. Dillon came in fifth place overall. Brennan Newberry was replaced by Dillon in the No. 9 for NTS Motorsports for the season’s last race, where Dillon placed seventh. Dillon competed in three events for GMS Racing in 2015 at Daytona, Atlanta, and Eldora, where he finished in the top 10 twice. Dillon competed in one race at Bristol in the No. 31 Chevrolet for NTS Motorsports before crashing out late.
At Martinsville in 2017, Dillon made a comeback to the CWTS and finished fifth in the No. 99 Chevrolet Silverado for MDM Motorsports. Dillon participated in the Mudsummer Classic at Eldora as well, placing 12th. Dillon made his Nationwide Series debut in the five-hour Energy 200 at Dover International Speedway in early June 2012. He came in third place in the first Nationwide Series contest contested at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in July. Dillon would be switching to the Nationwide Series full-time for 2014, driving the No. 3 Chevrolet for RCR in place of brother Austin, it was confirmed in August 2013.
In Las Vegas, he earned his first Nationwide Series pole of his career. He triumphed in a second pole at Kentucky. Kansas saw the third pole of his career. On the last restart of the race on July 26, 2014, at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Dillon passed Kyle Busch and held him off to win. Dillon finished second behind Chase Elliott in the 2014 NNS Rookie of the Year rankings. Dillon started the 2015 season in third position in the Daytona season opener. On August 8, 2015, at Watkins Glen, Dillon and Regan Smith got into a heated argument after Dillon threw Smith in the first turn, which led Smith to place 20th overall. Despite not having a single victory, Ty Dillon ended 2015 in third place overall with a career-high number of top-10s (25) and top-5s (12).
Dillon earned his fourth Xfinity Series pole and his first since the 2014 campaign in the season-opening race at Daytona in 2016. After the other three Dash 4 Cash drivers all fell out of the race in the same collision late in the race, Dillon earned a $100,000 bonus by winning the race at Richmond. In the race, he came in second place behind Dale Earnhardt Jr. Returning to Daytona, Dillon competed in a very unique Bass Pro Shops/NRA Museum paint scheme for the weekend of July 4th and placed 14th.
In the Xfinity Series for 2016, NASCAR used the Chase format. Dillon qualified for the Chase in 2016 based on points but lost to Justin Allgaier in a tight race. Dillon had five second-place finishes that were a season high and ended fifth in points for 2016. (Richmond, both Iowa races, Dover during the chase, and Homestead).
Ty Dillon competed in 27 Xfinity races in 2017, skipping the races at Homestead, Mid-Ohio, Road America, and Iowa in June and July. Dillon continues to pilot the No. 3 Chevrolet Camaro for RCR despite switching to the Cup Series full-time in 2017, albeit on a part-time basis. Dillon was leading the pack in the Xfinity debut at Daytona until the last restart, when he ran out of fuel and came in 19th. Dillon started a four-race string of top-ten results after two more poor finishes. He had 16 top 10 finishes before season’s conclusion.
Due to other drivers using the same No. 3 Camaro, Dillon participated in a few Xfinity events in 2018. In 2019 and 2020, he did not participate in any races in the series. On January 27, 2021, it was revealed that Dillon will compete in the Xfinity Series for Joe Gibbs Racing in the spring at Daytona, Homestead, Las Vegas, and Talladega in their No. 54 Toyota. He joined Our Motorsports in time for the May race at Charlotte.
On July 15, 2014, RCR announced that Dillon will race in the Oral-B USA 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway in the No. 33 with Hillman-Circle Sport LLC in collaboration with RCR. After qualifying 29th, he finished 25th. Dillon qualified 26th and came in 27th overall for the Quicken Loans Race for Heroes 500 at Phoenix International Raceway. Sponsors Yuengling and RCR stated in September 2014 that they will field the No. 33 for Dillon in the June Pocono event in 2015. RCR announced on December 9 that Dillon will compete in the Daytona 500 in the No. 33 car for Hillman-Circle Sport.
Dillon joined Circle Sport – Leavine Family Racing in 2016, sharing the No. 95 with Michael McDowell and receiving sponsorships from brands including Cheerios and Nexteer. The 95 and RCR have a similar partnership as does the 33. Additionally, Dillon drove the No. 14 for Stewart-Haas Racing, filling in for Tony Stewart who was injured. The credit for Dillon’s seventh-place finish in the GEICO 500 at Talladega would go to Stewart since he began the race. In the Sprint Cup race at Pocono, Dillon would take the lead during the first three laps. Regan Smith’s seat in the No. 7 Tommy Baldwin Racing Chevy was taken up by Dillon at the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 400 by Smith, who had to return to North Carolina to wait for the birth of his kid.
On November 28, 2016, it was revealed that Casey Mears, a seasoned driver with Germain for six years, will be replaced by Dillon in the No. 13 GEICO-sponsored Chevrolet for Germain Racing in 2017. Twisted Tea was Germain Racing’s major sponsor for a few races in 2017 together with GEICO. Dillon’s 2017 campaign got off to a bad start in the Daytona 500. He finished in 15th position in Atlanta’s subsequent event. He came in at number 21 the following week in Las Vegas. He subsequently finished 16th in Phoenix, 22nd in Martinsville, and finally 17th in Texas as a result of his previous performance.
His subsequent performances were a 15th-place showing at Bristol and a 26th-place showing at Richmond. After avoiding the “Big One” at Talladega, Dillon achieved a career-best 13th place finish. He placed fourteenth at Kansas with this result. A 36th-place finish in Charlotte followed this. At Dover, Dillon led 27 laps and was running among the leaders before he crashed, dropping him to 14th place. At Daytona, Dillon was in the lead with three laps remaining but lost ground to finish 16th. Dillon finished 33rd at Kentucky.
Dillon finished in the top 20 eight times in the second half of 2017, including two 11th-place performances that were then career highs. In the final points standings, he came in at position 24. Dillon finished the Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona in sixth position, a then-career-best performance after a challenging first half of 2018. This was Dillon’s first career top-10 performance in the Cup Series in 71 races. Dillon began the 2019 season with another sixth-place result, matching his last top-10 finish at Daytona. He managed to dodge many significant collisions once again to finish sixth. Dillon was able to finish as high as fifth in OT.
After a restart in stage 1, Ty Dillon outlasted Clint Bowyer in a two-lap shootout to win his maiden stage at Bristol. Dillon finished the race in 15th place. Dillon won the second stage of the GEICO 500 after taking the first stage earlier in his career. At the rain-shortened July Daytona race, Dillon finished fourth, giving him his first-ever top-5 finish and best placing in his Cup career. At the finish line of each race held throughout the season, Dillon was competing with Joey Logano. He earned 24th place in points, same like in 2017.
Dillon began the 2020 season with finishing 30th and DNFing the Daytona 500. Dillon finished 10th the following week in Las Vegas, marking his first top 10 at a non-plate track. He would start 33rd for The Real Heroes 400 at Darlington and come in 19th overall, according to a random drawing. The top 20 finishers of The Real Heroes 400 would be inverted to decide the starting places for the next Toyota 500, giving Dillon a berth on the front row starting second, alongside Ryan Preece. When Dillon initially crossed the finish line at the YellaWood 500 at Talladega on October 4, 2020, he tied his best result of fourth. However, when Matt DiBenedetto was penalized for pushing someone below the yellow line, Dillon was promoted to third and that would become a new career-best result for him. Dillon came in 26th place in the points standings during Germain Racing’s final season.
It was announced on September 22, 2020, that Germain Racing would cease operations after the 2020 season due to a lack of sponsorship from Geico and would sell the charter that ensures the car will compete in every race in a season to the recently established 23XI Racing, headed by Michael Jordan and Cup driver Denny Hamlin. Dillon will try the 2021 Daytona 500 for Gaunt Brothers Racing driving the No. 96 Toyota with support from Bass Pro Shops and Black Rifle Coffee, it was revealed on January 19, 2021, after rumors over the previous several days. This will be the first time Dillon has taken a permanent ride in NASCAR outside of RCR and teams connected to RCR and has not driven a Chevrolet in NASCAR or ARCA.
Prior to the 500, Dillon joined 23XI Racing for the Busch Clash in the No. 23 Toyota. Regular driver Bubba Wallace was ineligible for the event owing to Dillon’s stage victory in the 2020 season. Dillon missed the 2021 Daytona 500 despite placing sixth in the first Duel of the 2021 Bluegreen Vacations Duels. GMS Racing said on October 10, 2021, that Dillon will pilot the No. 94 Chevrolet for the team’s first-ever Cup campaign in 2022. After GMS acquired the controlling stake in Richard Petty Motorsports on December 7, 2021, it was revealed that Dillon’s 2022 car number would change to the No. 42 and that Erik Jones would join him as a teammate in the No. 43.
On July 16, 2022, Ty Dillon confirmed that he would not return to the team in 2023. Prior to the Pocono race, the No. 42 was docked 35 driver and owner points for an L1 penalty when the pre-race inspection revealed issues with the car’s rocker box vent hole. On June 16, 2014, Dillon announced he would make his Trans-Am Series debut at Road America for Miller Racing in the No. 12 TA2 Chevy Camaro. After starting 6th, Dillon finished 4th. In 2019, Dillon made a cameo in the movie Stuber.
Wife
Ty Dillon is married to Haley Carey, they had their wedding in 2014. On December 28, 2013, Dillon announced his engagement to his girlfriend Haley Carey, a former driver herself and Charlotte Hornets, cheerleader. They were married by Dillon’s good friend Ray Wright on December 20, 2014, at Childress Vineyards in Lexington, North Carolina. On November 20, 2017, the two welcomed a daughter, Oakley Ray Dillon. Their son Kapton Reed Dillon was born on October 29, 2020. As of mid-2022, Ty Dillon and his wife Haley Carey are still married and living a happy life with their children.
Ty Dillon net worth
How much is Ty Dillon worth? Ty Dillon net worth is estimated at around $5 million. His main source of income is from his career as a racing driver. Ty Dillon’s salary per month with other career earnings is over $1 million dollars annually. His successful career has earned him some luxurious lifestyles and some fancy car trips. He is one of the richest and most influential racing drivers in the United States. Ty Dillon stands at an appealing height of 1.78m and has a good body weight which suits his personality.