Just one year ago, Tyler Young, driver of the No. 02 Young’s Motorsports Chevrolet, entered the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) race weekend at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, KS, as a rookie, 31st in the driver point standings. Fast forward one year, and the Texas native enters Friday night’s NCWTS 250 12th in points, a mere five points outside the top-10. Young, who finished a track-best 13th at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway, and turned heads at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway, qualifying a track-best 10th for the Kroger 250, enters the fourth race of the season at Kansas with more confidence than ever before, looking for his career first top-10 finish.
Young showed promise in his track debut at Kansas in 2014, qualifying 15th in the series’ first elimination style, multi-segment qualifying. However, after running over a piece of debris early in the race, causing damage to the No. 02 machine, Young was forced to fight for position all night from the rear of the field. The Young’s Motorsports driver worked his way back up to the eighth position before being collected in a lap-86 accident and relegated to a 23rd-place finish.
With a new engine package, experience, and the confidence to succeed, Young hopes to earn his career first top-10 finish in Friday night’s 167-lap event in the “Sunflower State.”
Sounding Off – Tyler Young:
“It’s crazy the difference one year can make. For some reason, in 2014, we just didn’t start the year moving in the direction we needed to. We weren’t running bad, we just weren’t finishing where we were running. Wrecking in the first three races of the year was tough, and it’s hard to get ahead after being so far behind. I feel like our program is moving in the right direction this year, and with a new chassis and engine program, I have more confidence than ever before going to Kansas. We ran well there last year, just didn’t have the luck we needed. Hopefully, this year we can put it all together and finally get that top-10 we’ve been looking for.”
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