As a substitute, 2x NASCAR Cup Collection champion Joey Logano will get behind the wheel of the No. 15 AMR Ford Mustang.
In an announcement, the workforce indicated that they’re hoping to enhance the workforce’s competitiveness with enter from Logano. Deegan has competed in all 17 races to this point this yr with AMR, however has no end increased 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 present twenty seventh, which is final amongst full-time drivers.
The 22-year-old Deegan is a rookie within the NASCAR Xfinity Collection after spending three full-time seasons within the Truck Collection. 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
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“The extent of competitors within the Xfinity Collection is as aggressive because it’s ever been,” stated AM Racing workforce president Wade Moore in a press launch. “It’s our purpose at AM Racing to area a aggressive race workforce by means of our technical alliance with Stewart-Haas Racing and supply any of our drivers the perfect tools and alternative to achieve success on observe every weekend.
“With that being stated, we haven’t had the success on observe that we had been hoping for within the first half of the season. When the chance to have Joey within the automotive at Chicago turned a risk, we felt we would have liked to benefit from the information and suggestions {that a} two-time NASCAR Cup Collection Champion may present to our groups‘ development.”
Added Moore: “We intend to take the suggestions and knowledge 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, Group Penske, Shell Pennzoil Ford Mustang in victory lane
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“Racing within the rain on Chicago’s Avenue Course final yr was a problem inside itself,“ stated Logano. „Any additional seat time is at all times a optimistic for distinctive tracks equivalent to this one. Driving the NASCAR Xfinity Collection automobiles are a variety 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 most recent winner within the Cup Collection, incomes his first points-paying victory of the 2024 season at Nashville Superspeedway. He additionally received the All-Star Race at North Wilkesboro Speedway, earlier this yr.
