iRacing June update

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 

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

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. 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.   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. 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.

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.

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!

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.

Read More at www.DylanMurry.com

Update April, NASCAR K&N and Spa

Dylan

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! 

December race, championship, and 2016 year in review

2016 Pro Series Oval/Road Course Series Championship presented by Ed Clark - President & GM Atlanta Motor Speedway

2016 "David Ragan Sporstman of the Year" award presented by Ken Ragan - Director Legends of Georgia AMS

Dylan Murry defies gravity in SUCKER KART

November update- AMP Legends race

Yesterday was the third and final road course race. It was at Atlanta Motorsports Park, and I had a ball! It was 30 minutes of practice, a 6 lap heat race, and a 10 lap feature race. The king of Legends Cars, Doug Stevens, was also racing in that race. In practice, we were about the same speed. After that, he changed the gear ratio in his car so he could get off the corner a little better. We left ours where it was. In the heat race, I drew to start last. After the first few laps, I was in second, right behind Mr. Stevens. On the restart, I was able to hang with him, but I dropped a wheel in the grass and locked up my brakes, which allowed him to get away. I ended up finishing second. 

iRacing Report, August 14

I had quite a few races in the past couple of weeks and not a lot of time at home. I had my last Thursday Thunder race, a late model race at Caraway Speedway, and watched the K&N, Xfinity, and Sprint Cup races at Watkins Glen. I also started an online school program to be able to travel more often.  The Legends race was the last Thursday Thunder of the season. The practice before that race on Wednesday  night, my crankshaft broke. Thankfully, Mr. Ragan was kind enough to lend us a house car for that race to finish off the season. The car was great for the age. I qualified fourth out of 13 cars. In the race I was in second for most of the race and hanging with first, but on a green-white-checkered, my brake pedal went to the floor and lost my brakes. I hit the car on the outside of me and we both spun. I was barely able to finish the race. I am super thankful that Mr. Ragan let me use the car to finish off the season.  At the late model race, we were running 6th in qualifying only a couple of hundredths off of 5th. It was supposed to be a 200 lap race with a pit stop, but the track changed it to twin 50 lap races. In the first race, I worked my way up to fifth and towards the end was catching fourth. I never caught him in time and finished fifth. In the second race, they inverted the top five and I got to start on the pole. The second place jumped the start and got a huge run on me going into turn 1. I ended up getting shuffled to the back and got caught on the outside of someone. I let them go and tried to pass him back. I couldn’t get around as quick as I hoped, so we were running side-by-side for about ten laps. I finally got around, but by that time everyone else pulled away. I was working my car as hard as it would go. Thanks to the effort by Spraker Racing, I was able to have the fastest laps on the track in the last 15 laps of the race. By the end of the race I was only a couple of car lengths behind 4th and 5th. I am so fortunate to be able to work with Spraker Racing. They are a great team. At the NASCAR race in Watkins Glen, we were able to get Sprint Cup hot pit and garage passes thanks to Hendrick Motorsports. I had a great time learning how the race processes worked. We got there a couple of days early to watch the K&N race. I had sponsorship for the race, but NASCAR wants me to race on a half mile oval before I do a road course in K&N. That is still very good to be approved for K&N after only 4 late model races.   It was awesome to see the K&N cars book it around the track. Congratulations to Austin Cindric for the win there. Harrison Burton was doing great until he lost his breaks and spun.  The Xfinity race was also really cool. I had a great time watching Mr. Todd Bodine race. It really stinks that he got caught up in a big wreck at the beginning of the race. I wished he could have gone back out there.  On Sunday , we got to watch from pit lane. Sprint Cup races are awesome. I really hope I get to that level one day.  The best part about that whole weekend was Mr. Scott Welliver offered us to stay at his house for the weekend. It is an amazing house, and I had a lot of fun playing with his dog, Marco. He’s a great dog, he really is. Also Mr. John Gorsline offered for us to stay at a  cabin that he rented near the track, but we already commited to Mr. Welliver’s offer. Thank you to both of you for the offers.  Video and pictures below:         iRacing video: Dylan late model qualifying Caraway July 23, 2016 Click this link if video does not appear.

iRacing report, July 13

These last two weeks have been both busy and exciting. I have had a couple of Thursday Thunder races, a late model race, and watched the NASCAR Xfinity race with Spraker Racing from their pit box at Daytona.  

On June 30, I had a Legends race at Atlanta Motor Speedway. The car has not been gone over or nut and bolted in a while and we were not very fast. I ended up qualifying 5th out of 12. In the race, I worked my way up to 3rd. I fell back down to fourth and finished the race in 4th.

On the first of July, Jeff Spraker invited us to come down and watch the Xfinity race in Daytona from his pit box. I had a great time and Spraker Racing did a great job building, working on the car, and running it in the race.

July 6th and 7th was a double header at AMS. I qualified in 7th on Wednesday. In the race, it started raining, and I was one of the fastest cars out there. On the first restart, I tried to avoid a big pile up in front of me, but was pushed from behind and spun right into the wreck. When they restarted the race, I was running mid-pack and gaining positions, but then my exhaust fell off. It lost power and I took it easy for the rest of the race, because I didn’t know what was going on and didn’t want to hurt the motor. I finished 10th. Thanks to Doug Stevens and Advanced Technology Motorsports, we were able to have the car fixed for the race on Thursday.

On the Thursday race, I qualified 6th out of 13. The race had many red flags due to non-intentional reasons. I worked my way up the field, but spun in oil and got sent to the back. I ended up finishing fifth right behind the leaders.

I also had a late model race at Motor Mile Speedway on July 9th with Spraker Racing Enterprises. We had to adjust the car to make it looser in practice. I qualified 8th out of 14. It was a 150 lap race, so I tried to conserve my tires. I was running 7th for a while and made a couple of passes throughout the race. I was running fifth on the lead lap right behind the leaders, and on lap 123, the 3rd and 4th place cars ran into each other and I had to go low to try and avoid the crash, but they both came low and I got wedged between the wall and the other cars. I was lucky enough to finish the race, but my right front caliper was dragging my brakes so I didn’t have any straight line speed and finished 7th.

I also got some good news. NASCAR called and after only a few late model races have approved me to run the K&N series on ovals up to 1/2 mile. It normally takes a full season in late model racing to advance to K&N. This is very exciting as the NASCAR K&N series is one of the top tier NASCAR series and very well respected by everyone including the Cup teams and drivers.

All in all, these past few weeks have given me a lot more experience. Winning the Gorsline Scholarship with Performance Prime has helped me a lot.

Dylan