UPDATE: Chip Ganassi Racing proclaims this day that when the NASCAR Cup Series returns to the music for the rest of the 2020 season, Matt Kenseth shall be insensible the wheel of the No. 42 Chevrolet Camaro. Kenseth, the ragged Cup Series Champion and two-time Daytona 500 Champion, most currently competed fat-time at NASCAR‘s perfect level in 2017, where he carried out seventh within the aspects and won the 2nd to closing scurry of the season at Phoenix Raceway.
The Wisconsin native is a 39-time Cup Series winner and shall be part of a talented community on the No. 42 crew, which entered the 2020 season following a most piquant-ever sixth space attain within the 2019 point standings, a fourth consecutive scurry to the playoffs, and a playoff scurry eradicate at Dover World Speedway. With a newly designed Chevrolet Camaro for the 2020 season, the No. 42 crew started the twelve months sturdy, with three high-10 finishes within the most main four races.
NOTES OF INTEREST:
- Running Up Front — With 18 years of expertise within the Cup Series, Kenseth has continuously traipse advance the front, averaging 10 high-five and upright over 18 high-10 finishes a twelve months in his 18 fat-time seasons insensible the wheel. All over his career, Kenseth posted on the least one eradicate in all however four seasons and made the playoffs in all however one season wherein he used to be eligible, finishing his fat-time career with eight consecutive appearances.
- A Successful Perspective: Overall, the ragged Cup Champion, has 39 Cup wins including the Daytona 500 twice, the Coke 600, the Southern 500 and the All-Star scurry. He has 181 high-5s and has carried out within the tip-10 in aspects in 13 of his 18 seasons. When Kenseth scored his first Dayton 500 victory in 2009, he grew to alter into most piquant the fifth driver in NASCAR historical past to eradicate a Cup Series Championship, the Rookie of the Year Award and the Daytona 500 — becoming a member of Hall of Famers Dale Earnhardt, Jeff Gordon, David Pearson, and Richard Petty.
- Return to Team Chevy: Whereas this marks the most main time Kenseth will scurry with Team Chevy within the Cup Series, he just isn’t any stranger to the manufacturer. Kenseth started his racing career in 1988 in a Camaro and made his debut within the NASCAR Southeast Series in 1994 insensible the wheel of a Chevrolet, and persevered racing Chevrolet‘s within the Xfinity Series thru the 2001 season.
QUOTEBOARD:
- Chip Ganassi, Proprietor, Chip Ganassi Racing: “I truly enjoy regularly said that when we should bear a driver pickle, that I owe it to our crew, our companions and our followers to place basically the most piquant accessible driver within the vehicle. We’re doing exactly that with Matt. All over my time in NASCAR, I truly enjoy regularly admired the very best way Matt Kenseth raced. He has proven to be a constant winner, sturdy competitor, and respectful driver, and I‘m satisfied we’re in a position so as to add one other NASCAR champion to the crew for the rest of this season.”
- Matt Kenseth, Driver No. 42 Chevrolet Camaro: “This used to be an surprising replacement evidently. I’m able to‘t direct racing used to be even on my radar two weeks within the past. After spending some time thinking about it and the total queer instances surrounding all of us truthful now, it upright seemed the timing and the replacement used to be perfect to near wait on wait on. I do know I truly enjoy heaps of labor earlier than me to upward thrust in administration in a moderately short duration of time, however I’m having a test forward to the reveal. I’m mad to work with Kurt again and to meet all my new CGR crew participants, and I‘m truly having a test forward to getting wait on in a Chevrolet. In 1988, I started my career in a Camaro and I’m able to‘t wait to within the slay scurry a Chevy within the Cup Series. I also should thank Chip and all his companions for this replacement. Optimistically we would be on the music quickly.”
— Chip Ganassi Racing —
AND: Carl Edwards, a ragged teammate of Kenseth’s at Roush, used to be also contacted about using the No. 42 however declined to near wait on out of retirement. As for [Ross] Chastain, who stuffed in for Ryan Newman for 3 races earlier than the season used to be suspended and has been patiently waiting for a fat-time Cup run, Ganassi said: “We’ve purchased plans for him.”
— Connected Press —
ORIGINAL POST: Archaic NASCAR champion Matt Kenseth will again near out of retirement to compete for Chip Ganassi Racing as the replacement for fired driver Kyle Larson.
“I mediate Matt affords us basically the most piquant probability to eradicate, traipse up front and compete for wins,” Ganassi commended The Connected Press. “I‘ve regularly long gone with the mantra of looking out to decide on out basically the most piquant driver accessible, and he‘s basically the most piquant driver accessible truthful now. And he brings something to our sponsors that they need truthful now. Balance. No baggage. Household man. Daytona 500 winner. Championship winner.”
Ganassi said the crew will petition NASCAR for a waiver to make Kenseth, the 2003 Cup champion, eligible to scurry for the title this season. NASCAR accomplished upright four of its 36 races earlier than the season used to be suspended as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
— Connected Press —
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