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2017 year end update

This weekend was fantastic! It was the final race of the year at Atlanta Motor Speedway on the road course. We went into the race knowing that I had already locked up the championship, so most of the pressure was off. The will to win, however, was still there. We were fastest over all in practice, which gave me a bit of confidence going into the race. There was a heat race (instead of qualifying), and a feature race. I drew to start 3rd in the heat race. I passed the car on the outside front row going into turn one. He stayed pretty close to my rear bumper for the rest of the race. Still trying to hold him off, I made a pass for the lead. I held the lead and won the heat race. The video here is from the heat race which was short and intense.

In the feature, I held the lead throughout the race. The cars were running side by side behind me, so I was able to pull away. I ended up winning the race by two seconds.

I had to jump on out of my sweaty racing suit, and into a real suit to go to the awards banquet that night. In the banquet, I was awarded my 12th championship, accompanied by the “President’s Award” presented by Mr. Ed Clark, President of Atlanta Motor Speedway. I am very humbled by this award. I never saw it coming, and it’s truly an honor to receive it.

This year has been very amazing and a great experience. To be able to receive the help to get two K&N races with Logan Zimmerman Racing, and a chance to race at the infamous Circuit de Spa Francorchamps, has really amazed me. I am looking forward to seeing what comes my way in 2018 with a lot of hard work ahead. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to my career including the Go Fund Me donors, Turtle Wax, The Gorsline Company, Tupelo Honey Cafe, Case•it, Simcraft, Craig Stanton keeping me fit, those having me drive their race cars on track, and many many others. I could not be writing this race report without you.

Dylan

Dylan Ken Ragan Pro Legends Championship 2017 Dylan Ed Clark Presidents award 2017

Ken Ragan presents "Pro Legends Championship" Ed Clark presents "President's Award"

Video- Atlanta Motor Speedway Legends heat race December 2, 2017- short & sweet

Video- "Thank you"

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Dylan drives a Porsche Supercup car at VIR 9-19-17

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Watkins Glen K&N race and TV time

Last weekend went great! Buckling down the second K&N race of the year, we were up in Watkins Glen all weekend. I had so much fun with my dad as one of my spotters. It was a great learning experience and an unforgettable weekend. Learning how to boogie a stock car around a road course was very fun. It was a one day show with the K&N race on Friday, Xfinity on Saturday, and Monster Energy Cup on Sunday.

We had practice at 1:00 for 1.5 hours. After we got the car dialed in during practice, it was time to qualify. I ended up qualifying 15th out of 20 cars, but that only gave me more of a determination to do well in the race.

The race started at 4:45. I kept my head in the game and conserved my tires, because they only let you use one set of tires for all 41 laps. I was riding around in 10th and 11th for the first half of the race. The car was a little bit tight to start with, and as the tires get hotter and hotter in the front, it only got worse. When the first caution came out at lap 21, we came in to get fuel and raised the track bar in the rear to give it more front grip. It was a lot better once we went green again, but still was not perfect. I adjusted the rest by adding more rear brake bias. I picked up a couple of positions in the second half of the race. They had a caution with three laps to go and I was starting on the outside. I wanted to get to the inside as soon as possible. My spotter said clear to the right, so I didn’t pass up that opportunity. Going into turn one, the guy behind me pulled out to the inside and made it three wide, sandwiching me in the middle. I was lucky to get out of the mess clean, while other cars spun. The race stayed clean and I lost a little bit of ground. Knowing that I had only two laps left, I gave it my all. I made up a few car lengths on the car in front of me by the end of the race, but was just barely not close enough to make the pass before the checkered. I ended up finishing 8th place, advancing seven positions throughout the race.

This race would have never been possible without Turtle Wax, Case-it, Tupelo Honey, Bokampers, Gorsline, Simcraft, and all of the Go Fund Me donors. Hopefully there will be more of these races to come my way in the future. I will never give up and hope to get a full season of K&N next year.

Also, set your DVR to NBCSN on Wednesday, August 9 at 6:00pm ET to watch the race. I am very excited to move forward on my career.

Dylan

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NASCAR K&N Watkins Glen announcement 7-20-17

I am very excited to announce our plans and partners for the NASCAR K&N race at Watkins Glen only a couple of weeks from now. We run with during the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series weekend. August 4.We have some fantastic partners with us that I am incredibly proud to represent. Below you will find a formal press release that says it all. Keep watching for more updates as we get closer.

Dylan.

For Immediate release:

CONTACT:

Chris Dirato, Bitner Group, (954) 703-7938, chris@bitnergroup.com

Dylan Murry Ready to Take Next Step in K&N Pro Series East

Turtle Wax to Sponsor Rising Driver at Watkins Glen Race

Watkins press release Turtle Wax

CUMMING, Ga. (July XX, 2017) – After opening a number of eyes in his first K&N Pro Series East race at Greenville (S.C.) Pickens Speedway last April, 16-year-old Dylan Murry will now tackle the always challenging Watkins Glen International road course on Friday, August 4, in the Bully Hill Vineyards 100.

Murry, who finished sixth at Greenville Pickens Speedway, will be carrying a new sponsor – Turtle Wax – on his Rette Jones Racing Ford Fusion when he takes to “The Glen” for his second series start.

“I’m excited to get up to Watkins Glen,” said Murry, who is the son of champion road racer David Murry. “I can’t thank Turtle Wax enough for coming on board as a sponsor. Case It, Simcraft, Tupelo Honey and Bokampers also have been a tremendous help in getting this race together for us. Without them, this would not be possible.”

In his K&N Pro Series East debut, Murry qualified 16^th, but ended up the top finishing rookie. He picked up the Sunoco Rookie of the Race award, Coca-Cola Move of the Race award and the Brembo Brake Through Challenge award.

Because of his impressive performance at Greenville Pickens Speedway, Brett Bodine, head of NASCAR’s Driver Development Committee, gave him the green flag to race at Watkins Glen.

“The next two weeks can’t go fast enough for me,” said the Cumming, Ga. resident. “For sure, it’s going to be another challenge, but I feel like I’m quite prepared. My dad has certainly been around Watkins Glen a number of times during his driving career so he can provide some terrific coaching.”

In 1995, driving for ARCA series veteran Mark Thompson, David Murry qualified for the then NASCAR Winston Cup race at Watkins Glen.

“Watkins Glen is a high speed, technical road course,” said David Murry. “But, I have all the confidence in the world that Dylan will be competitive and perform well.”

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iRacing June update

Dylan Murry Logo BLACK v01

We changed my logo to the one above so look for that in the future. I hope you like it.

A couple of weeks ago, NASCAR asked if I would participate in the Circle K Speed Street autograph session during the Charlotte Coca-Cola 600. I ended up sitting in-between Ernie Irvin and Jeffery Earnhardt, pretty inspiring. There were two sessions that I was signing in.

After that, I started the Thursday Thunder Legends racing season last Thursday. We tested on Wednesday and raced on Thursday. This race didn’t send us the best of luck, but it was still great experience. We had some troubles with set up and qualified 8th out of 15 cars. A couple of laps into the race, we were running side by side and one of the old racing incidents occurred. I got turned around and the toe got knocked out a bit and didn't have the finish we hoped. I guess sometimes you’re the bug and sometimes you’re the windshield. That night, I was the bug, but hopefully the next race I won’t be the bug, or windshield and just miss everything.

We are working on the K&N race at Watkins in August. Once we have firmed up the program I will let you know. I am really looking forward to getting back in a K&N car again.

Monday we are going to Charlotte to visit and then on to Richmond, VA for a meeting before going to VIR for DMTD and PCA on Monday. Look for some posts on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

Happy Fathers Day everyone!

Dylan

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K&N Article on their website - Dylan Greenville

Here is an article that NASCAR K&N series sponsor has written and posted on their website. Direct link is https://www.knfilters.com/news/news.aspx?id=7014

K&N Pro Series Rookie, Dylan Murry, Uses Greenville Pickens Speedway to Prove His Might

16 year old high school student Dylan Murry may well have the stuff he needs to go all the way

In just his fifth race in a car, Dylan Murry finished sixth in his first K&N Pro Series event

If in high school you were to draw the shape of the Greenville Pickens Speedway and submitted it to your teacher as a representation of an oval, it’s unlikely you would have received a passing grade. With four turns, each with its own radius, and front and back straights that aren’t parallel, it’s not the standard image of an oval racetrack that usually comes to mind.

Beyond just the shape of the track, there are even more challenges for the driver. The two straights are virtually flat and the turns are banked at only five degrees. In addition, the turns have been freshly repaved while the straights are covered in decades-old asphalt. So just as the driver starts to transition to power, the grip of the track surface changes greatly.

This background is provided so that you can better appreciate the feat of this young teenager from Georgia, who raced in his very first K&N Pro Series East race at Greenville Pickens Speedway this month, in only his fifth race in a car.

Sixteen-year-old Dylan Murry is like many young drivers who come out of a racing family. His father David was a championship road racer and now operates a track day and coaching business. Dylan caught the racing bug not from his dad’s insistence or encouragement, but from watching kart races and pressuring dad to allow him to start racing. “I wanted to make sure it was his passion and not mine,” dad, David, added emphatically.

The already tricky track became more difficult to master with paving in the turns only

Dylan enters a newly paved turn with the older asphalt straightway behind him

Dylan drove road racing karts for several years but then decided to pursue a career on ovals. He moved up into Legends where he cut his teeth in quarter-mile wheel-to-wheel competition. He managed to put together funding to drive in four Whelen Late Model races for Spraker Racing Enterprises last year, at two tracks – Caraway Speedway and Motor Mile Speedway, with the goal of breaking into the K&N series at Watkins Glen, to take best advantage of his road-racing background.

A quick aside: While Dylan’s racing has received some support from Tooth Life, Gliimpse, and The Gorsline Company, it's come mostly from his friends, fans, and other supporters through a GoFundMe campaign.

Dylan Murry, a high-school student from Georgia, has already impressed NASCAR with his driving

Will Dylan Murry be among the drivers to replace fan favorites who are retiring, like Dale Jr.?

Because of the high speeds at Watkins Glen (160 mph up the backstraight) NASCAR wanted Dylan to first prove his ability in a more powerful K&N car on a shorter track. So the race at Greenville Pickens was chosen. The challenge of driving Greenville Pickens is well-known among short track racers in the south. The apex is up against the inside retainer wall, plus the changes in pavement and the mixture of radii of the turns. Not the place most drivers would select to put in a safe finish to receive approval to race at the faster tracks.

The only experience he’d had of the South Carolina track was a few laps in a street car. If the layout wasn’t intimidating enough (based on a clay horse track carved out in 1940), it’s also the second oldest NASCAR track still operating and where the legends of Richard Petty and David Pearson have at least some of their roots.

In the first practice session, Dylan was not surprisingly near the bottom of the order – 18th out of 19 cars. In qualifying Dylan moved up to 16th. Not what he’d been hoping for, but the race would take over an hour and Dylan knew he could learn more about the car, the other drivers, and the track as the race wore on.

With each lap of the race, Dylan began to find his pace. He learned that you lost speed late braking into the turns as the cars are actually coasting at the apex, and that power has to be applied judiciously as you transfer off the fresh asphalt of the turn and onto to aged surface of the straights. “In the last 25 laps I felt I had a good handle on the track,” Dylan would comment after the race.

Dylan utilized an online service to allow his supporters to make small individual contibutions

As a shout-out to those who supported him through GoFundMe Dylan carries the logo on the car

Dylan had moved up 9 positions during the race and finished an incredible sixth and top Rookie, in his Rette-Jones Racing Ford Fusion. To put accomplishment into context, the drivers who finished ahead of him have multiple K&N Pro Series races under their belts, or have raced in ARCA or the Camping World Truck Series. Not just four outings in a Late Model car.

For his performance, Dylan was awarded the Sunoco Rookie of the Race, Coca-Cola Move of the Race, and the Brembo Brake Through Challenge. The only award he didn’t receive was a first place trophy.

Because of his impressive performance at Greenville Pickens, Brett Bodine, head of NASCAR's Driver Approval Committee, has given Dylan the green light to race at not only Watkins Glen, but all tracks in the series, including the three other fastest tracks: Bristol, Dover, and New Hampshire.

So make sure to look out for this young man in the K&N Pro Series East race at Watkins Glen, and perhaps a few other races this year, depending upon the support he receives through his GoFundMe campaign.

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NASCAR & Legends Update, April 24

Last weekend was a great weekend for us winning the Legends race at Crisp Motorsports Park on Saturday. They had a 10 minute practice. We were 4th in practice, and decided to check the rear toe after because the car was very loose. It turned out that the rear tires were toed out 1/8” after the last race when I hit the wall on the last lap. The housing is bent, so we couldn’t do anything at the track. After making some changes, 5 lap qualifying was next. The car was still loose and I qualified 4th. Before the race, we changed the cross weight a little. The car ended up being balanced perfect and picked up 3rd place on the start. Throughout the race, the top four or five cars were switching positions every lap. They had a wreck with a few laps to go and had to clean up oil around the track. I restarted the race in first place. It was a green white checkered, so all I had to do was maintain my lead. Going into turn three with 2 laps to go, second place tried to do a bump and run, but wasn’t enough to get around me. After taking the white flag, I got a great run coming out of turn two and extended my lead to win the race! Legendsofga.com.

Dylan and Legends car

NASCAR also just announced that I won the "Coca-Cola Move of the Race Award", "Sunoco Rookie of the Race Award", and the "Brembo Brake Through Challenge Award" for the K&N race at Greenville. I could not believe that I won 3 out of 4 awards in my first race! We have also been notified by NASCAR that I am approved to race at Watkins Glen and all other tracks in K&N. Thanks Rette Jones Racing and LZR for making my first K&N race a great one!

Dylan Murry awards Greenville KN resize

I have been going back and forth to The Mitty and my dad’s track days at Road Atlanta. I had a lot of fun hanging out with my co-drivers at Spa and everyone and got a chance to drive a Datsun 510 and a Porsche 968. Both were very cool cars. I had a blast driving them.

Update April, NASCAR K&N and Spa

Okay, so this is probably the biggest and most valuable race report I have written to date. It starts off going to Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. We left a couple of days early to explore Germany (and test my two years of German). Deutschland ist super spaß!

At Spa, they had practice on Friday, qualifying on Saturday, and the race on Sunday. My first lap around the track, I had nothing but a huge smile on my face, as the first corner I took was Eau Rouge. The scenery was beautiful too. There is no other track in the world that compares to Spa. Just a very unique track in the thick forests of Belgium. I couldn’t thank Mr. John Coyle, Dean De Santis, and Damon De Santis enough for this once in a lifetime opportunity. After my first lap it was time to get serious.

On Saturday, the whole team qualified. I got a good lap and qualified 19th out of 86 cars and over 300 different drivers. I started the race on Sunday. They had to delay the start a while because the track was so foggy in a couple of the turns. I have always heard of rumors saying it’s always raining on half the track and thought it was a bit of an exaggeration. Well, it turned out to be true. At the start of the race, we would run the dry line on half of the race, and the wet line on the other half. The race was 8 hours, so it dried up by the next time I went out. In my first stint, I worked my way up to second before I had to come in for a driver change. All of the other drivers were great and made the entire experience so much better. The last time I went out, I was coming up on a lapped car and tried to pass him on the inside. Another car tried to go inside me making it 3 wide, me in the middle. I don’t think the car we were passing saw me in his mirrors and came down on me. We touched wheels and we went off the track. Because this happened 10 minutes before the race was over, the corner workers wouldn’t let me go out to finish the race. All in all, I had so much fun at that track and my teammates were so much fun to be around.

Now on to the K&N race at Greenville-Pickens Speedway. There was a 3 hour practice session on Friday. That was my first time in a K&N car and learned so much about heavy cars with lots of power. On Saturday, we had another 1.5 hour practice and used that to my advantage as well. We were having some brake issues that day and had to change the front brake pads. In qualifying, I qualified 15th out of 19 cars. If I would have picked up a tenth, I would have been inside the top ten. The race was 150 laps with one pit stop at lap 75. The first 75 laps had lots of cautions. Most of them were right in front of me and I had to constantly keep an eye out. On one of the wrecks the car that spun rolled back into me. It popped the left front tire and damaged the body a little, but we were able to change tires and go back out. The last 75 laps was almost caution free until the last five laps. The race restarted with a green/white/checkered. I picked up a couple of positions and ended up finishing P6 on the lead lap. I was the highest finishing rookie in that race. I never could have believed that we were able to run in that race, nevertheless finish in 6th! I’m very happy with our finish and wish we could do more races.

Without the help of all of the donors through Go Fund Me, this race never could have been possible. It means so much to me and now we are hoping to continue onto Watkins Glen for the K&N race there. Thank you to everyone that donated. I am blown away by how much we raised. I remember telling my dad “I really don’t think this Go Fund Me idea will work. That’s a lot of money for one race.” Well look who was wrong. I still can’t believe it!

The K&N race will be televised this Friday, April 14 @ 6pm ET on NBCSN. It's an hour show.

Happy Easter everyone!

Dylan

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NASCAR K&N Greenville information

NASCAR K&N http://hometracks.nascar.com/series/KN-Pro-Series-East (live timing & scoring)
April 7-8, 2017
Greenville-Pickens Speedway http://www.greenvillepickens.com/
3800 Calhoun Memorial Highway, Easley, SC 29640
Dylan Murry #28 http://dylanmurry.com/dylan-murry
Rette Jones Racing https://www.facebook.com/RetteJonesRacing/
TV tape delay NBCSN broadcast time April 15 @ 9pm ET one hour broadcast.

Schedule for the event:

April 7 Friday

4:30pm-6:00pm practice

6:30pm-8:00pm practice

April 8 Saturday

2:00pm-3:30pm final practice

4:15pm Group Qualifying

6:00pm Driver Autograph Session (On Track)

7:00pm Kevin Whitaker Chevrolet "150" (150 lap race)

We would love to have you come support us at the race. Grandstand tickets are $25. THANK YOU!

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December race, championship, and 2016 year in review

Yesterday was my last race in 2016. That race ended the road course and oval championship. It was an oval race at Atlanta Motor Speedway in my Legends car. I went into the race leading the points, but only 3 points ahead of second. Whoever finished in front of who won the championship.

I went out to qualify and qualified 2nd, and the other championship contender qualified 5th. In the race, I got hung up on the outside on the start and fell back to 4th. I passed the car in front of me a couple of laps later. A caution came out and I restarted in third place. On the start, I stayed in 3rd and held that for the rest of the race. I finished third in the race, and won my 11th championship! We also had the years end banquet right after the race was over. I was awarded two outstanding awards. One was the championship trophy, and the other was the “David Ragan Sportsman of the Year” award presented to the driver who maintains a positive attitude despite challenges on and off the track throughout the year. I am super thankful for both of those awards.

I have accomplished so much this year. This year included 2 Elite Pro Class series championships, the David Ragan Sportsman of the Year award, 4 late model races, Gorsline Company Scholarship, being approved by NASCAR to race in K&N, and driving a Porsche GT4 Clubsport at Sebring. If anyone would have said I would have been able to accomplish all of those in one year, I never would have been able to believe you. I also never would have made it without the help and support of so many people and companies, thank you to all of you from my heart.

My next step on the ladder to NASCAR Sprint Cup (starting 2017 it's Monster Energy Cup) is the NASCAR K&N series. Only the "Camping World Truck" and "Xfinity" series are between K&N and Sprint Cup. K&N is out of our reach financially and we need help with that. We thought we had funding for several K&N races starting early 2017 but that hope seems to be slipping away. We have a firm commitment for funding for the K&N race at Watkins Glen in 2017 that runs the same weekend with the Monster Energy Cup Series. NASCAR wants me to run a 1/2 mile K&N oval before the Watkins Glen race and so it's mandatory we run at least one K&N race before that.

Dylan

Dylan championship trophy Ed Clark