It looks like everything is going in favor of William Byron right now. After his heroics at the Pennzoil 400 last Sunday, the Hendrick Motorsports driver is all set to compete in three races in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series races this year. What’s even more interesting is that he will be driving for Kyle Busch Motorsports.
“Yeah, that’s going to be great for us. Really good to have William (Byron) – a KBM alum – to come back and work with us again and being a part of the Chevy team. Excited that HendrickCars.com, Rick (Hendrick), Jeff (Gordon), and everybody there at HMS partnered with us on this and got William three races [Bristol, Darlington & North Wilkesboro]. Those were the ones he chose.”
“He stole one [race] of mine actually. I’m still bummed I don’t get to run at North Wilkesboro. But it will be nice to have an experienced driver again that can come over and continue to help evaluate and it not just be me.”
“It’s [longer restart zones] only added a negative end to it because at California, Joey (Logano) was just maintaining his speed, and everyone was gaining, gaining, gaining, gaining, and closing up their gaps because they were all trying to lay back and then time the run. So he just waited for everybody to run into everybody and then went at the end of the zone.”