Dylan Lupton

Dylan J. Lupton (born December 7, 1993) is an American professional stock car racing driver who competes part-time in the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series and ARCA Menards Series for DGR-Crosley, driving the No. 17 in both series.

Dylan Lupton
Lupton at Daytona International Speedway in 2018
Born	Dylan J. Lupton December 7, 1993 Sacramento, California
Achievements	2010 Langers Juice S-2 Sportsman Series Champion
NASCAR Cup Series career
4 races run over 1 year
2016 position	54th
Best finish	54th (2016)
First race	2016 Toyota/Save Mart 350 (Sonoma)
Last race	2016 Ford EcoBoost 400 (Homestead)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
35 races run over 4 years
2018 position	39th
Best finish	30th (2015, 2017)
First race	2015 Axalta Faster. Tougher. Brighter. 200 (Phoenix)
Last race	2018 Pocono Green 250 (Pocono)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 1 0
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career
11 races run over 3 years
Truck no., team	No. 17 (DGR-Crosley)
2020 position	44th
Best finish	28th (2019)
First race	2016 Fred's 250 (Talladega)
Last race	2020 Lucas Oil 150 (Phoenix)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 4 0
Statistics current as of November 6, 2020.

Racing career

Lupton celebrating his West Series win at Kern County Raceway Park in 2014

Lupton began racing in 2010 in the Langers Juice S-2 Sportsman Series, which was a championship with fourteen races and those were all at Irwindale Event Center, then known as Toyota Speedway. Lupton managed to win three races and became champion with High Point Racing just two points in front of teammate Roman Lagudi. In 2011 he got two partial rides in the K&N Pro Series West. He drove one race for team owner Greg Rayl and two races for team owner BIll McAnally, including races at All American Speedway and the new Phoenix International Raceway. His best result of the season was a 12th place at Montana Raceway Park. In 2013 and 2014 he got a full ride at Sunrise Ford Racing in the K&N Pro Series West and became runner-up in 2014 seventeen points behind two-time champion Greg Pursley. He won twice, in 2013 at Evergreen Speedway and in 2014 at Kern County Raceway Park.

Lupton at Road America in 2015

On February 16, 2015, it was announced that Lupton had been signed by Athenian Motorsports to compete part-time in the 2015 NASCAR Xfinity Series. Lupton was hired to run a minimum of seven races in the No. 25 starting at Phoenix, with continued sponsorship from Zaxby's.[1] Also that year, Lupton drove in one K&N Pro Series East race at Watkins Glen in order to gain road course experience, because two of his scheduled Xfinity races were the road course races at Road America and Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. His road course runs were strong, finishing in fourth place in the Watkins Glen East Series race, and then earning his best finishes of the year in his Xfinity schedule with a 9th at Mid-Ohio and a 13th at Road America.

Lupton started the 2016 Xfinity season without a ride, however on March 1, 2016, it was announced that Lupton signed a deal to drive the No. 93 Chevy for RSS Racing for 3 races, starting at Las Vegas.[2] However, the team withdrew from the Vegas race,[3] delaying his debut until the following race at Phoenix, and was replaced by Josh Reaume at Las Vegas.

Lupton in his Cup Series debut at Sonoma in 2016

In 2016, Lupton joined BK Racing to attempt his Sprint Cup Series debut at the Toyota/Save Mart 350. Lupton would finish 35th in the race.[4] He returned to the team at Richmond's Federated Auto Parts 400 in the No. 83. He would be involved in a big wreck, with his car ending up on top of Ryan Newman's car, but he would stay in the race and finish 25th.[5] Lupton made his Truck Series debut at Talladega, driving the No. 02 Chevrolet for Young's Motorsports, he finished 12th. Lupton then made his second Truck Series race at Phoenix, substituting John Wes Townley, earning a 19th place finish. A week later, Lupton joined Go Fas Racing in a one race deal at Homestead, finishing 39th.

Lupton at Darlington in 2017 with his Jeff Gordon throwback scheme

Lupton ran part time in the Xfinity Series in 2017 with a limited schedule in No. 24 for JGL Racing, and announced in January 2018 that he and JGL were planning to run 21 races throughout the upcoming Xfinity season (with hope to run the full schedule if more sponsorship was available). Lupton had a few top 25s but disappointed for the most part in the other races, failing to finish Daytona, Las Vegas, Fontana, Bristol, Talladega, and Charlotte. He wasn't originally supposed to race in the Bristol race, but with the struggles of Tony Mrakovich in practice, JGL Racing choose Lupton to replace him. JGL shut down after 12 races into the season due to sponsorship issues and team owner James Whitener's health problems.[6]

In June 2019, Lupton returned to the Truck Series for a six race schedule in DGR-Crosley's No. 5 and No. 15 Toyota Tundras starting at Chicago.[6] He also drove for Young's Motorsports again for one race in their No. 20 at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park. Lupton would not make any NASCAR starts in 2020 until September, when he returned to DGR-Crosley, now a Ford team, to drive the No. 17 F-150 at Las Vegas, Texas, as well as make his second ARCA start, driving their No. 17 car in the season-finale at Kansas in October.[7]

Personal life

Lupton graduated from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2016 with a degree in finance.[4]

Motorsports career results

NASCAR

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Sprint Cup Series

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	NSCC	Pts	Ref
2016	BK Racing	93	Toyota	DAY	ATL	LVS	PHO	CAL	MAR	TEX	BRI	RCH	TAL	KAN	DOV	CLT	POC	MCH	SON 35	DAY	KEN	NHA	IND	POC	GLN	BRI	MCH	DAR												54th	0^1	[8]
		83																											RCH 25	CHI	NHA	DOV	CLT	KAN	TAL	MAR 31	TEX	PHO
	Go Fas Racing	32	Ford																																				HOM 39

Xfinity Series

NASCAR Xfinity Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	NXSC	Pts	Ref
2015	Athenian Motorsports	25	Chevy	DAY	ATL	LVS	PHO 19	CAL	TEX	BRI	RCH 28	TAL	IOW	CLT	DOV	MCH	CHI 34	DAY	KEN	NHA 24	IND	IOW 17	GLN	MOH 9	BRI	ROA 13	DAR	RCH	CHI	KEN 31	DOV	CLT	KAN	TEX	PHO	HOM	30th	178	[9]
2016	RSS Racing	93	Chevy	DAY	ATL	LVS	PHO 19	CAL 36	TEX	BRI	RCH	TAL	DOV	CLT	POC	MCH	IOW	DAY	KEN	NHA	IND	IOW	GLN	MOH	BRI	ROA	DAR	RCH	CHI	KEN	DOV	CLT	KAN	TEX	PHO	HOM	58th	27	[10]
2017	JGL Racing	24	Toyota	DAY	ATL	LVS	PHO	CAL	TEX	BRI	RCH 12	TAL	CLT	DOV 30	POC 22	MCH 24	IOW 15	DAY	KEN	NHA 22	IND	IOW 25	GLN 20	MOH 27	BRI	ROA 33	DAR 30	RCH 24	CHI	KEN	DOV	CLT	KAN 16	TEX 21	PHO	HOM	30th	197	[11]
2018		28	Ford	DAY 27	ATL 21	LVS 40	PHO 23	CAL 33	TEX 17	BRI 31	RCH	TAL 36	DOV 24	CLT 33	POC 23	MCH	IOW	CHI	DAY	KEN	NHA	IOW	GLN	MOH	BRI	ROA	DAR	IND	LVS	RCH	CLT	DOV	KAN	TEX	PHO	HOM	39th	103	[12]

Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series

NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	NGTC	Pts	Ref
2016	Young's Motorsports	02	Chevy	DAY	ATL	MAR	KAN	DOV	CLT	TEX	IOW	GTW	KEN	ELD	POC	BRI	MCH	MSP	CHI	NHA	LVS	TAL 12	MAR	TEX			90th	0^1	[13]
	Athenian Motorsports	05	Chevy																						PHO 19	HOM
2019	DGR-Crosley	5	Toyota	DAY	ATL	LVS	MAR	TEX	DOV	KAN	CLT	TEX	IOW	GTW	CHI 10							LVS 10	TAL	MAR	PHO 16	HOM DNQ	28th	145	[14]
		15														KEN 5	POC	ELD	MCH	BRI 27
	Young's Motorsports	20	Chevy																		MSP 19
2020	DGR-Crosley	17	Ford	DAY	LVS	CLT	ATL	HOM	POC	KEN	TEX	KAN	KAN	MCH	DAY	DOV	GTW	DAR	RCH	BRI	LVS 14	TAL	KAN	TEX 8	MAR	PHO 16	44th	73	[15]

^* Season still in progress
¹ Ineligible for series points

K&N Pro Series East

NASCAR K&N Pro Series East results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	NKNPSEC	Pts	Ref
2015	Jefferson Pitts Racing	55	Ford	NSM	GRE	BRI	IOW	BGS	LGY	COL	NHA	IOW	GLN 4	MOT	VIR	RCH	DOV	37th	40	[16]

K&N Pro Series West

NASCAR K&N Pro Series West results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	NKNPSWC	Pts	Ref
2011	GSR Racing	07	Ford	PHO	AAS	MMP	IOW	LVS	SON	IRW	EVG	PIR	CNS	MRP 12	SRP				45th	288	[17]
	Gaunt Brothers Racing	75	Toyota													AAS 18	PHO 37
2013	Sunrise Ford Racing	9	Ford	PHO 14	S99 9	BIR 4	IOW 8	I44 3	SON 8	CNS 10	IOW 6	EVG 1	SRP 7	MMP 3	SMP 7	AAS 15	KCR 7	PHO 28	5th	522	[18]
2014				PHO 6	IRW 5	S99 6	IOW 20	KCR 2	SON 3	SLS 8	CNS 2	IOW 27	EVG 3*	KCR 1	MMP 2	AAS 9	PHO 5		2nd	560	[19]

ARCA Menards Series

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

ARCA Menards Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	AMSC	Pts	Ref
2016	Empire Racing	82	Ford	DAY 24	NSV	SLM	TAL	TOL	NJE	POC	MCH	MAD	WIN	IOW	IRP	POC	BLN	ISF	DSF	SLM	CHI	KEN	KAN	126th	110	[20]
2020	DGR-Crosley	17	Ford	DAY	PHO	TAL	POC	IRP	KEN	IOW	KAN	TOL	TOL	MCH	DAY	GTW	I44	TOL	BRI	WIN	MEM	ISF	KAN 4	50th	40	[21]

References

1. "Lupton Lands Partial Xfinity Series Ride". NASCAR.com. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. February 16, 2015. Archived from the original on February 16, 2015. Retrieved August 17, 2015.
2. "NASCAR Next Driver Dylan Lupton Pairs With RSS Racing For West Coast Swing". Catchfence. March 1, 2016. Retrieved March 2, 2016.
3. "2016 Boyd Gaming 300". Racing-Reference. Retrieved March 7, 2016.
4. Utter, Jim (June 16, 2016). "Dylan Lupton to make NASCAR Sprint Cup debut at Sonoma". Motorsport.com. Retrieved June 16, 2016.
5. "E.J. Wade Construction Returns to Sponsor Matt DiBenedetto, Dylan Lupton at Richmond". BK Racing. September 1, 2016. Retrieved September 1, 2016.
6. McFadin, Daniel (June 13, 2019). "Dylan Lupton joins DGR-Crosley for six Truck Series races". NBC Sports.
7. "Dylan Lupton returns to DGR-Crosley starting at Las Vegas Motor Speedway". Jayski's Silly Season Site. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. September 21, 2020.
8. "Dylan Lupton – 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
9. "Dylan Lupton – 2015 NASCAR Xfinity Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
10. "Dylan Lupton – 2016 NASCAR Xfinity Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
11. "Dylan Lupton – 2017 NASCAR Xfinity Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
12. "Dylan Lupton – 2018 NASCAR Xfinity Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
13. "Dylan Lupton – 2016 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
14. "Dylan Lupton – 2019 NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
15. "Dylan Lupton – 2020 NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 6, 2020.
16. "Dylan Lupton – 2016 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
17. "Dylan Lupton – 2011 NASCAR K&N Pro Series West Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
18. "Dylan Lupton – 2013 NASCAR K&N Pro Series West Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
19. "Dylan Lupton – 2014 NASCAR K&N Pro Series West Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
20. "Dylan Lupton – 2016 ARCA Racing Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
21. "Dylan Lupton – 2020 ARCA Menards Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved September 21, 2020.

External links

• Official website
• Dylan Lupton career summary at DriverDB.com
• Dylan Lupton driver statistics at Racing-Reference