Mike Dillon - Jayski's NASCAR Silly Season Site

Crew Chief News UPDATE:

hearing former #93 Amoco/Bill Davis Racing crew chief, Gil Martin, is being considered for the 2nd Cal Well's team (#? McDonald's Ford) and for the #01 crew chief job. Supposedly, Tony Glover will go back to more of a Team Manager role(8-7-2000) UPDATE: hearing Martin...

#21 Crew Chief Change:

#21 Crew Chief Change: Scott Naset has been named interim crew chief of the #21 Rockwell Automation Racing BGN team fielded by Richard Childress Racing and driven by Mike Dillon. The team is currently in 20th place in the 2000 NASCAR Busch Series point standings, with...

Provisionals:

Provisionals: Mike McLaughlin is one of only four drivers who have started all 15 races in 2000 that have not used any provisionals. Mike Dillon, Bobby Hamilton, Jr., Ron Hornaday and McLaughlin are the only four drivers out of 92 different drivers who have started...

Dillon to relieve Mast:

TachZone is reporting that #21 BGN driver, Mike Dillon, will be standing by to replace Rick Mast in the #14 Conseco Pontiac for the Coca-Cola 600. Mast is apparently feeling a little under the weather this weekend, after a bout of food poisoning. Mast will start the...

#21 Assoc:

#21 Assoc: Textilease officials announced that it would be an associate sponsor of the #21 Richard Childress Racing (RCR) Busch Series car. Textilease, based in Beltsville, Md., signed a three-year agreement to be an associate sponsor on the Rockwell Automation Chevrolet...

Lowes Testing:

Lowes Testing: With Mark Martin not participating in the second day of the BGN test, his teammate, Jeff Burton, assumed the top spot on the speed chart with an unofficial lap at 176.470mph in the #9 Northern Light.com Ford Taurus. Rookie Anthony Lazarro was second-...

RIR Testing UPDATE 3:

RIR Testing UPDATE 3: Testing at RIR Richmond International Raceway was rained out today. BGN teams were there to test: #24-David Green(yes, helping out), #18-Jason Leffler, #21-Mike Dillon, #2-Kevin Harvick, #45-Adam Petty and #98-Elton Sawyer(4-18-2000) UPDATE: ...

RIR Testing UPDATE:

Testing at RIR - Richmond International Raceway was rained out today. Some team supposedly there were #36-Kenny Schrader, #90-Ed Berrier, #91-Todd Bodine, #16-Kevin Lepage, #22-Ward Burton and #93-Dave Blaney. Teams are expected to return Wednesday. No new on if #60...

#21 Clarification Dodge:

#21 Clarification Dodge: When you look at the #21 RCR / Rockwell Automation Chevrolet Monte Carlo, you might have to ask yourself, why is the wordDODGE on a car manufactured by Chevrolet? Can two car manufacturers be working together on the same car? The answers...

Wednesday Testing at DIS:

#43-Jay Sauter, turned a fast lap of 186.672 mph in the final day of BGN testing at Daytona. 2nd fastest was #1-Randy LaJoie 186.270; 3rd was #21-Mike Dillon 185.571; 4th was #2-Kevin Harvick 185.494 and 5th was #15-Jack Sprague 185.483. See the test speeds at the ...

Kenseth at AMS UPDATE 2:

Matt Kenseth will test most of next week at Atlanta. Monday and Tuesday in his #17 Visine BGN Chevy and Wednesday and Thursday in his #17 DeWalt Tools Cup Ford(goRacing)(1-22-2000) ' UPDATE: hearing Kenseth will not test at AMS on Monday but on Tuesday thru Thursday...

Kenseth at AMS UPDATE 2:

Matt Kenseth will test most of next week at Atlanta. Monday and Tuesday in his #17 Visine BGN Chevy and Wednesday and Thursday in his #17 DeWalt Tools Cup Ford(goRacing)(1-22-2000) -- UPDATE: hearing Kenseth will not test at AMS on Monday but on Tuesday thru Thursday...

Vegas Testing:

Seven-time NASCAR Winston Cup champion Dale Earnhardt will return to the driver's seat for the first time since December back surgery by heading a list of 36 drivers from the CUP and BGN series who have scheduled testing times Jan. 31-Feb. 2 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway...

Talladega Testing:

Ten NASCAR Winston Cup and BGN teams began a two-day test session at Talladega Superspeedway in preparation for the upcoming racing season. Three Cup and seven BGN teams were on the track at Talladega Wednesday for the first day of two day testing. Mike Dillon tested...

Petty DQ’d UPDATE:

#45-Adam Petty, who was fastest in second round Busch qualifying, was disqualified for the BGN race at Lowes/Charlotte for an illegal carburetor/alterations on Friday and sent home. Petty's disqualification allowed #59-Mike Dillon, who had the 37th fastest speed originally...

#59 News:

The #59 Kingsford Charcoal team hopes to names their 2000 driver by the end of next week. Current driver Mike Dillon will leave after this season(RPM2Nite)(9-10-1999)...

Dillon sponsor UPDATE 2:

look for Mike Dillon to be in a 2nd Richard Childress BGN car with Rockwell Automation as the sponsor, who is a current associate sponsor on the #59 car he drives at present(8-22-1999) - UPDATE: hear there will a press conference on Saturday, September 4th, 11:15am...

Harvick to RCR?????Update 5:

Expect Richard Childress Racing (RCR) to announce this weekend at the Pepsi 400 at Michigan Speedway they're expanding their two-car Cup and single-truck teams into the BGN division in 2000 and beyond. Childress has secured AC-Delco as a full BGN sponsor and tapped...

Harvick to RCR? UPDATE 4 and Dillon:

I hear that #98 Porter Cable Truck driver Kevin Harvick has signed with Richard Childress to run his BGN car in 2000 with AC Delco as the sponsor(6-30-1999) - UPDATE: I hear that in addition to owning the new team with Harvick driving, Childress will own a team for...

Testing:

#10-Phil Parsons, #43-Shane Hall, #59-Mike Dillon, #74-Tony Raines and #33-Hermie Sadler tested at Greenville-Pickens Speedway on wednesday in preperation for Myrtle Beach(MRM)(7-15-1999)...