John Wes Townley has achieved victory, a notion that seemed unlikely to many, especially just a couple of years ago. The road to Victory Lane has been a strange one for the 25-year-old Watkinsville, Georgia native. With money from his dad, Tony’s, popular chicken chain Zaxby’s, Townley has been able to race at will since his childhood. Naturally, Townley’s big moment came at a standalone NCWTS race with the vast majority of the NASCAR media covering the Sprint Cup Series and NXS in Dover, Delaware. And the win was of the fuel mileage variety – Matt Crafton’s race-dominant truck pitted for fuel with three laps to go. Townley has run about 2/3 of the Xfinity Series schedule and his AMS team has run the other races with driver Dylan Lupton. AMS, however, withdrew from the Dover race, so they wouldn’t stretch their resources too thin. It paid off with the cross-country Vegas win. Townley expects more of that next season, as he hopes to focus even more on the full NCWTS schedule. “What I would really love to do next year is run for the championship in the Truck Series and run a handful of Xfinity races. It would be like I did this year, but I would just focus on the races I’m strongest at. And we can just kind of sit down and have more to focus on those weeks, because I feel like this year we just kind of focused on quantity over quality and in order to progress, we need to approach it a little differently. That’s kind of what we are thinking right now.”(WSB Radio)(10-19-2015)
