Richard Childress Lends a Helping Hand to Matt Kaulig, Providing Impetus to Kaulig Racing

Justin Haley’s decision to leave the Kaulig Racing team and join Rick Ware Racing kickstarted the silly season of 2023. He signed a multi-year deal with Rick Ware Racing beginning from the 2024 Cup Series season, which also heralded the significant rise of a team that is often considered a small group. The team which heavily invests in young talents hopes to see a change in the limping status of the team.

However, before the young driver shifts his allegiance to Ford from Chevrolet, Haley does not shy from revealing the fact that Kaulig Racing had undergone a serious transformation since it vowed allegiance to Richard Childress. In his appearance in The Dale Jr. Download podcast, the outgoing driver spilled the beans on the shift in power dynamics and how it propelled the cars toward the victory lane.

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Functioning within an organization that is ripped with cut-throat competition, teamwork becomes the only viable option to survive, and Kaulig Racing is surely a torch bearer. Keeping aside internal feuds and teammate rivalry, Matt Kaulig’s team has surely surpassed all expectations. Moreover, in a short period of time, since its inception back in 2016 has surely ridden high on success with victories coming from all three series.

One can surely thank Justin Haley for bringing the sole Cup Series victory after his win in Daytona. Nevertheless, the team’s success also lies in the execution of the perfect teamwork among the drivers without compromising the racing. 

In his conversation with Dale Earnhardt Jr, Justin Haley also revealed how the narrative from being a struggling team to churning victories in the Xfinity Series had shifted after its technical alliance with Richard Childress. Moreover, the team also purchased a shop adjacent to RCR in order to maintain its alliance with Richard Childress.

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Haley expressed, “We have the RCR cars now that are obviously in there. They weren’t there when we [Haley, AJ Allmendinger, Ross Chastain] were doing it.” To this Junior asked, “Were you all building your cars?”

The Daytona winner retorted, “It’s always been RCR stuff, RCR chassis and bodies and motors and everything and we still do. I mean it’s all RCR stuff. But the RCR cars weren’t there, you didn’t have Austin Hill, Sheldon Creed. You just didn’t have RCR cars there in the field, the house cars so, whatever was going on, I don’t know what it was but our three cars there was some serious speed in them.”

The driver also asserted how the teammates were able to keep aside their ‘egos’ and perform together in a coherent manner and not be aggressive to each other.

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Nevertheless, Kaulig Racing’s hunt for success is yet to be satiated as it signs Layne Riggs in a multi-year deal and will be seen driving the No.11 Xfinity Car at Texas Motor Speedway and Martinsville Speedway.

In a public statement, Riggs expressed, “I’m so excited to be making my first NASCAR Xfinity Series start at Texas Motor Speedway with a team that has had success in the Xfinity Series. I am super thankful to Jeff Coffey at Infinity Communications along with the whole Kaulig Racing organization for giving me this opportunity. I am so ready to get on track!”

Chris Rice also stated, “I’ve been watching Layne (Riggs) on the short-track circuit for a couple of years now and I am impressed what he has earned so far in his young career. He’s had a couple of starts in the truck series and I look forward to seeing what he can do in one of our carsInfinity Communications has been a huge supporter of Layne’s career so far, so I’m happy that he is able to bring them along for the ride”. 

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With that being said, hopes are running high for the young prodigy Justin Haley and his performance in the 2024 Cup Series. It will be interesting to see if he is able to earn more victories or simply falls flat in the face.