Austin Dillon is a professional race car driver who competes in the NASCAR Cup Series for his grandfather’s team, Richard Childress Racing (RCR). He also drives in the NASCAR Xfinity Series as well as the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. After making his debut as a NASCAR driver in 2008, Dillon has come to make a name for himself even though the shadow of his family is still around him. Here is everything to know about him.

Biography of Austin Dillon

Austin Dillon was born on April 27, 1990, in Lewisville, North Carolina, to Tina Dillon and a family with a racing history. While his father, Mike Dillon, was a NASCAR Busch Series race car driver, his brother, Tyler “Ty” Dillon, was also into the same sports.

Considering the home he was raised in, Austin’s childhood was dominated by cars and the track. He attended Forsyth Country Day School before moving on to High Point University to major in communications part-time.

Career

Austin began his career as a racer in 2005. In 2008, he was named Rookie of the Year at the NASCAR Camping World East Series and, soon, with his grandfather’s team.

Years later, he has a number of accomplishments to show for it, including the NASCAR World Camping Series Truck Series title in 2011, the NASCAR Nationwide Series in 2013, the Daytona 500 pole in 2014, the Coca-Cola 600 in 2017 and the 2018 Daytona 500.

More so, as at the start of the second half of 2018, Austin has 2 career Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series wins, 3 poles and 28 top ten finishes; 8 wins, 17 poles and 100 top ten in the NASCAR Xfinity Series; and 7 wins, 13 poles and 48 top ten. In the NASCAR Pinty’s Series, Dillon recorded 1 top ten with no pole or win.

While RCR is the team he has raced the most for, he has also raced for Curb Racing, Phoenix Racing and Stewart-Haas Racing, among others.

Family – Grandfather

As noted, Dillon comes from a family that emphasizes auto racing. One of the most important parts of this business is his grandfather, Richard Childress. Just like his son-in-law and grandsons, Childress was also a NASCAR driver before retiring from the sport. After that he founded the Richard Childress Racing.

The RCR is a very popular racing team that competes in both the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup and Xfinity series. While Richard’s grandson Ty Dillon drove for the team, Austin Dillon, who confessed his grandfather did everything for him, is still driving for the team as of 2018.

Wife and Girlfriend (Fiancée)

When it comes to his relationships, even though AustinDillon is a handsome man that a lot of women would want to date him. In public, he has been known to have had serious relationships with only two women.

His first girlfriend was Taylor Walker. Prior to entering the relationship, Walker had a relationship with American quarterback Will Grier. It was after her relationship ended that she was linked to the race car driver in 2014. Unfortunately, things didn’t go well, Dillon and Miss University Primetime ended the relationship shortly after the start of their relationship.

After the relationship, he entered another with Whitney Ward. The recently met NASCAR man decided to make Ward his fiancée in 2016 with an engagement in the Bahamas. Before that, the relationship between the two lovers was not hidden from the public as such. After the engagement, they both took to social media to announce it.

Whitney Ward holds a degree in communications major and marketing minor from the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. She was a cheerleader and captain when she was a student, and upon graduation she was named the Tennessee Titans cheerleaders.

A year after their engagement, the RCR driver chose Whitney Ward as his bride at an event at Childress Vineyards in North Carolina. It was precisely December 9, 2017.

the size

As a handsome man, AustinDillon won’t come across as the tallest of men at many gatherings. That said, he is of medium height and he has a very good build. In numbers, the Daytona 500 champion is 5-foot-9 and weighs 185 pounds.

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