William Byron Biography
William Byron is a professional NASCAR racing driver. Byron was born on November 29, 1997, in Charlotte, North Carolina. The following
season he won both the 2017 NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship and 2017 Sunoco Rookie of the Year. Byron also won the 2018 MENCS Sunoco Rookie of the Year award. Byron is currently the youngest full-time driver in NASCAR’s top series.
He became interested in racing when he was six years old after seeing a stock car race on television, later attending a race at Martinsville Speedway in 2006. He began racing on the iRacing simulator as a teenager with over 100 wins and 298 top fives in online competition. In 2012, he and his father explored how Byron could start racing offline – in real cars. He started racing Legends that year at the age of 15, relatively late for modern drivers. That year he won 33 races and became the Legend Car Young Lions Division champion.
For 2014, Byron signed with JR Motorsports late model program, in addition to continuing Legends competition. Byron competed in the No. 9 Liberty University Chevrolet at Hickory Motor Speedway in North Carolina for JRM. He scored a single victory and 11 top-five finishes, finishing second in points to teammate Josh Berry at Hickory.
He was signed to drive in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East for 2015 by HScott Motorsports with Justin Marks, with sponsorship from Liberty University. Byron also continued racing late models for JR Motorsports. In his debut K&N East in February at New Smyrna Speedway, Byron finished 7th. He won the second race of the season at Greenville-Pickens Speedway after starting second and leading all 152 laps (two laps past the scheduled distance).
He made his ARCA Racing Series debut at Lucas Oil Raceway in July, driving the No. 55 Liberty University Toyota Camry for Venturini Motorsports. Byron finished second after leading 120 laps. He scored four K&N East wins en route to winning the series championship. Byron and his team also competed in the 2015 K&N Pro Series West races at Sonoma and Phoenix, finishing fifth and second respectively.
Camping World Truck Series
On October 29, 2015, Kyle Busch Motorsports announced that Byron would run a full-time schedule in the team’s No. 9 Toyota Tundra in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series during the 2016 season. To prepare him for the run, KBM fielded the No. 9 for him in the 2015 Lucas Oil 150 at Phoenix International Raceway. Byron started the 2016 season on a low note crashing on the final lap at Daytona to finish 13th and finishing 32nd at Atlanta after blowing an engine. Later, Byron would get his first top 3 and 10 in the Truck Series after finishing a strong 3rd at Martinsville.
He won his first Truck Series race at Kansas in May, after avoiding Ben Rhodes and Johnny Sauter’s crash on the last lap of the race, and took his second race win in Texas in June. He won the next race at Iowa, finished 17th at Gateway due to a crash, and won yet again at Kentucky, propelling him to first in points. He followed that up with his fifth win of the season at Pocono Raceway, breaking the Camping World Truck Series record for most wins by a rookie. The previous mark was held by Kurt Busch during the 2000 season with four wins.
During the playoffs, He won the first race of the Round of 8 at New Hampshire but suffered an engine failure at the last race of the Round of 6 at Phoenix, which cost him the chance to join the Championship 4. With a win at the final race at Homestead, he placed fifth in the overall standings, with a total seven wins, eleven top 5s, and 16 top 10s in 23 races. In addition to clinching the owners’ championship for the No. 9 team, Byron was named Rookie of the Year.
William Byron Age
William McComas Byron II, (born November 29, 1997) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He currently competes full-time in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 24 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 for Hendrick Motorsports.
William Byron Height
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William Byron Family
Talking about his family background, He was born the younger of two children in Charlotte, North Carolina and attended Charlotte Country Day School while taking online classes through sponsor Liberty University, graduating in May 2016. He is also currently a student at Liberty University earning his college degree. His parents, Bill and Dana, and his older sister, Kathryn, are his main sources of inspiration. Byron is an Eagle Scout.
William Byron Net Worth
NASCAR practically has two salary levels. On one hand, there are multi-million dollar earners, who earn millions of dollars a year through sponsorships and performance money. In contrast, the rest of NASCAR competitors make much less. Development drivers can receive as little as 5 figures. Experienced drivers, meanwhile, can make between $200,000 and $500,000, including a base salary as well as either a percent of their prize money or a performance bonus. So what is NASCAR driver William Byron’s net worth in 2018? Our estimate for William Byron’s net worth as of 2018 is: $1.5 million
William Byron Throwback
He helped unveil his retro No. 24 paint scheme Thursday, channeling Tom Cruise in a Days of Thunder-inspired video reveal ahead of next month’s throwback weekend at Darlington Raceway. Byron and crew chief Chad Knaus co-starred in the short video, pulling the wraps off a green and yellow City Chevrolet/Hendrick Autoguard sponsored No. 24 Chevy. The 21-year-old driver will use the throwback design in the Bojangles’ Southern 500 on Sept. 1 (6 p.m. ET, NBCSN, MRN, SiriusXM). They borrowed lines from the opening scenes of the 1990 drama with a Hendrick-prepared car that was used in filming as a backdrop. Tom Cruise starred as aspiring driver Cole Trickle opposite Robert Duvall as crew chief Harry Hogge in the movie.
William Byron Wins
He is in his second season as driver of the No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet. Byron earned Sunoco Rookie of the Year honors in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series in 2018, tallying four top-10 finishes and ranking 23rd in the standings. He is paired with seven-time championship crew chief Chad Knaus in 2019. Byron scored four wins in the Xfinity Series as a rookie in 2017 en route to the series championship, and his seven wins in the Gander Outdoors Trucks Series in 2016 set a NASCAR record by a first-year driver.
William Byron Sponsors
CONCORD, N.C. — Liberty University and 12-time Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champions Hendrick Motorsports have reached a two-year agreement that will make the world’s largest Christian university a primary sponsor of the No. 24 Chevrolet Camaro is driven by William Byron. Byron, 19, will carry primary sponsorship from Liberty University in 12 Cup Series races in both 2018 and 2019. Hendrick Motorsports announced Aug. 9 that the Charlotte, North Carolina, the native will move to NASCAR’s premier level next season and compete for rookie of the year honors.
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