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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

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

Dylan David Ragan sportsman award

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

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Dylan Murry defies gravity in SUCKER KART

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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.

In the feature race, I was able to hold on to second for the first 2 laps, but then another car tried to go on the inside of me and I didn’t see him. He tapped my left rear tire, but I was barely able to save it as you can see in the video. A caution came out after that and I was able to restart the race in second. Going into the carousel, I tried to pass for the lead, but he didn’t see me and came down on me. We touched wheels and I lost a position. I passed him right back, but lost a lot of ground to the leader I was slowly catching him, only a few tenths per lap. I didn’t know if I was going to be able to catch him by the finish or not. We came up on lapped cars, and Mr. Stevens came up on them at just the wrong time, which allowed me to catch back up. A few laps later, we came up on more lapped cars. This time I caught them at the wrong time. He pulled away and then there were only two laps to go. I caught back up to him, but I wasn’t close enough to make a pass. I finished second and won the championship. I had tons of fun having the chance to be able to race against the great Doug Stevens!

I also worked my first few days at the Skip Barber Racing School. I had a blast and look forward to my next event with them.

I would also like to congratulate the Hendrick Motorsports 48 team for their 7th championship tying them with Dale Earnhardt Sr. and Richard Petty; a truly outstanding accomplishment!

Sincerely,

Dylan Murry

(678) 725-1266

Click link for in car video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQc-EvbYals

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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:

Dylan Glen Cup pit lane

iRacing video: Dylan late model qualifying Caraway July 23, 2016

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Dylan Caraway late model qualifying July 23 2016

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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

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iRacing update- June 28

Last week I had a Thursday Thunder Legends race and a late model race at Motor Mile Speedway.

The Legends race did not go as well as I would have liked. I the car was loose and I qualified 11th. We took the car out of impound to make a change to the corner weights. We had to start last because of taking it out of impound. The car felt really good for a couple of laps, but then there was a big pile up in front of me and I ran into a car. It bent the steering arm and knocked the tow out a couple of inches. After that, I didn’t have the car everyone else had. There were more wrecks that I avoided and ended up finishing fifth.

The late model race was Saturday night, and was my first time at that track and so I didn’t get much practice time. I ended up qualifying 8th out of 12 cars. The race went all 150 laps without a caution. I made my way up to 6th in a couple of laps. towards the end of the race, I was running fifth and had saved my tires much more than the fourth place car. With a couple of laps left, I made the pass and ended up finishing the race in fourth. It was a great race and Spraker Racing put in a lot of effort to make the car what it is now. I go to Caraway in two weeks for another late model race. Thursday Thunder Legends next.

Late Model racing doesn't allow in car video cameras so we don't have video.

Dylan

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iRacing report, June 20

Last week was very busy for me. I went up to Watkins Glen to drive in the Group 52 event and had my first late model race at Caraway Speedway with Jeff Spraker and Spraker Racing Enterprises.

Wednesday was the first day of the Group 52 event and I was supposed to drive a Hooters Pro Cup car with Vecchio Racing on the second day and a smaller car on the first day to learn the track, but there was a 90% chance of rain on Thursday, so we decided to drive the stock car on Wednesday and couldn’t learn the track in a familiar car. I got loose coming out of the toe of the boot and had to correct it, but I had to reposition my hands because I ran out of room. By the time I did that, I had to turn back, but I couldn’t turn in time and ran into the guard rail. I was very fortunate that a couple of people offered for me to drive their car afterwards. The first car I drove was a BMW M3 (Thank you Ike) with slicks and racing shocks. I drove that for an hour on the short course. The other car was a Porsche Cayman (thank you Speedsport Tuning!, Spencer Cox and Joe Liuzzi). I drove that for one and a half days. At the end of the second day, I started to really feel comfortable with the track and car. I learned so much in those two days.

On Saturday, I had my first late model race. Mr. Spraker rented out the track for two hours before the race to help me get dialed back in to a late model. I ended up qualifying 8th out of ten cars, 0.5 second off of the pole position and in the race I got within 0.4 of the fastest lap. This was my first 125 lap race. I got shuffled to the back on the start, but I was still hanging with a couple of other cars. I passed one of them, but then they got back around a few laps later. The tires started to get hot and the car got really loose. The track bar was all the way down and we tried to lower the right rear tire pressure two times, but it wasn’t enough for me to keep up with everyone else. A car right in front of me about half way through the race ran into the back of another car and I barely cleared the cars. I ended up finishing 8th. The team did a great job trying to get the car tighter. This race helped me learn a lot about longer races and heavier cars. I hope to learn more next weekend at Greenville Pickens.

I hope everyone had a great Father’s Day.

Sincerely,

Dylan Murry