As an alternative, 2x NASCAR Cup Sequence champion Joey Logano will get behind the wheel of the No. 15 AMR Ford Mustang.
In a press release, the crew indicated that they’re hoping to enhance the crew’s competitiveness with enter from Logano. Deegan has competed in all 17 races to date this yr with AMR, however has no end greater than twelfth. She additionally has eight finishes outdoors of the top-30, which is a sudden step down in efficiency after 2023.
Final yr, Brett Moffitt drove the No. 15 AMR Ford to at least one top-five and 9 top-tens, and ended the yr fifteenth within the factors standings. Deegan is at the moment twenty seventh, which is final amongst full-time drivers.
The 22-year-old Deegan is a rookie within the NASCAR Xfinity Sequence after spending three full-time seasons within the Truck Sequence. Whereas there, she earned 5 top-tens in 69 begins and scored as excessive as seventeenth within the factors standings.
Hailie Deegan, AM Racing, AirBox Ford Mustang
Photograph by: Gavin Baker / NKP / Motorsport Pictures
“The extent of competitors within the Xfinity Sequence is as aggressive because it’s ever been,” stated AM Racing crew president Wade Moore in a press launch. “It’s our aim at AM Racing to area a aggressive race crew by our technical alliance with Stewart-Haas Racing and supply any of our drivers the most effective gear and alternative to achieve success on monitor every weekend.
“With that being stated, we haven’t had the success on monitor that we have been hoping for within the first half of the season. When the chance to have Joey within the automotive at Chicago grew to become a risk, we felt we wanted to reap the benefits of the information and suggestions {that a} two-time NASCAR Cup Sequence Champion might present to our groups’ progress.”
Added Moore: “We intend to take the suggestions and information from the Chicago race weekend and apply it to constructing higher race automobiles every week so AM Racing can have a stronger second half of the season.”
Logano hasn’t run a NASCAR Xfinity race since 2019, however he has 30 profession victories as a NXS driver. Within the inaugural Cup race on the Chicago Avenue Course in 2023, he began ninth and completed eighth.
Joey Logano, Workforce Penske, Shell Pennzoil Ford Mustang in victory lane
Photograph by: Rusty Jones / NKP / Motorsport Pictures
“Racing within the rain on Chicago’s Avenue Course final yr was a problem inside itself,” stated Logano. “Any further seat time is at all times a constructive for distinctive tracks equivalent to this one. Driving the NASCAR Xfinity Sequence automobiles are quite a lot of enjoyable, and I’m trying ahead to climbing behind the wheel of the No. 15 AM Racing Ford Mustang, with excessive hopes to wheel it to the entrance.”
Logano can also be the newest winner within the Cup Sequence, incomes his first points-paying victory of the 2024 season at Nashville Superspeedway. He additionally gained the All-Star Race at North Wilkesboro Speedway, earlier this yr.
