Less than an hour before the green flag was set to drop on the NASCAR Xfinity Series’ Sport Clips Haircuts VFW Help a Hero 200 at Darlington Raceway, Ty Dillon hopped in the No. 02 Our Motorsports machine in place of Brett Moffitt for Saturday’s (Sept. 4) race.
Frontstretch‘s Zach Sturniolo was told by the Our stable that Moffitt was out for “medical reasons.”
NEWS: @tydillon will pilot the No. 02 car today in place of @Brett_Moffitt, who is out for “medical reasons,” I’m told. #NASCAR pic.twitter.com/mM07x5VZbP
— Zach Sturniolo (@zachstur) September 4, 2021
Dillon has raced in six of the division’s 24 races this year, four of those with Joe Gibbs Racing and two with Our. With the latter, he recorded a seventh-place effort at Charlotte in May and a fifth-place finish at Atlanta in July. Those were in the No. 23; Saturday marks Dillon’s first time in the No. 02.
Last-minute change of plans for @tydillon led him from the dealership to a 50-minute helicopter ride to get into the #NASCAR seat of @OurMotorsports’ No. 02 Chevrolet.
Ty, whose driven the team’s No. 23 entry this season, explains: pic.twitter.com/5lvrsqFt9Z
— Zach Sturniolo (@zachstur) September 4, 2021
The Xfinity Series’ race at Darlington is set for 3:30 p.m. with coverage on NBC Sports Network.
Adam Cheek joined Frontstretch as a contributing writer in January 2019. A 2020 graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, he covered sports there and later spent a year and a half as a sports host on 910 the Fan in Richmond, VA. He's freelanced for Richmond Magazine and the Richmond Times-Dispatch and also hosts the Adam Cheek's Sports Week podcast. Adam has followed racing since the age of three, inheriting the passion from his grandfather, who raced in amateur events up and down the East Coast in the 1950s.