Ty Dillon will attempt to qualify for his first Daytona 500 in February in the #33 Chevrolet at Richard Childress Racing with sponsorship from Cheerios. Dillon made his Cup debut at Atlanta in August, and appears to be following in the footsteps of his older brother Austin Dillon, a rising Cup sophomore in the #3 Chevrolet. Ty Dillon took his own #3 car to his first Nationwide Series win at Indianapolis in July, and will keep running for points in what will soon be known as the Xfinity Series in 2015.
The #33 car has been shared between the Dillons' grandfather Richard Childress and Joe Falk since early in the 2012 season. Before that, the #33 was a full-time car at RCR driven by Clint Bowyer. This year, besides with Dillon at Atlanta and fall Phoenix, Childress' version of the #33 was piloted by Nationwide/Xfinity driver Brian Scott in the Daytona 500, Aaron's 499 (where he won the pole), the spring race at Phoenix and both races at Charlotte. It is not known if Falk will turn full control of the car back to Childress so he can field a four-car Cup team again, but for now he seems content using the #33 as a development car for drivers like Dillon and Scott.
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