{"id":584862,"date":"2026-04-06T01:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/584862\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T01:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:12:09","slug":"ty-dillon-reacts-to-cleetus-mcfarland-nascar-oreilly-debut-offers-encouragement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/584862\/","title":{"rendered":"Ty Dillon reacts to Cleetus McFarland NASCAR O’Reilly debut, offers encouragement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cleetus McFarland made his NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series debut this weekend, and Ty Dillon liked what he saw from him. In a YouTube video posted by McFarland<\/a>, he spoke to Dillon about his performance at Rockingham.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou did good,\u201d Ty Dillon told Cleetus McFarland after the race. \u201cThe thing was I could see you get excited and catch the guys in front of you, and you started launching it in there.\u201d<\/p>\n

McFarland said that he couldn\u2019t believe that he kept the car intact despite spinning out multiple times. Dillon told him that the last one wasn\u2019t his fault.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was good, man. You learned a lot,\u201d Dillon said. \u201cYou\u2019re going to go home and sleep on it and think of so many things that if you rerun it again tomorrow, you\u2019ll be that much better.\u201d<\/p>\n

McFarland, who is known for being a YouTube star, finished 32nd and was six laps down. He also competed in the ARCA East race at Rockingham and finished fourth. <\/p>\n

Ty Dillon shares more thoughts on Cleetus McFarland<\/p>\n

While Dillon saw good things from McFarland, it\u2019s not clear if he will compete in his next scheduled O\u2019Reilly race at Talladega, since he needs approval from NASCAR. McFarland drives for Richard Childress Racing, and the team\u2019s vice president of the O\u2019Reilly Series operations<\/a> said of his Rockingham performance that \u201cThere were a lot of things they wanted to see happen that didn\u2019t happen.\u201d <\/p>\n

Regardless, Dillon believes McFarland will only get better, and he continues to compete. \u201cFrom never, ever doing this, and the perspective for people is like a lot of times you\u2019re helping kids that have late model races, he hasn\u2019t raced anything as far as what we do,\u201d Dillon said in an interview with <\/a>Frontstretch.<\/a> <\/p>\n

\u201cWe just had to keep the perspective of teaching him as much as we can. He did a great job. The approval to be here is a wild theory, in my opinion, and he did good. This is one of the toughest tracks; things are happening really fast, and it\u2019s just hard to make laps around here. <\/p>\n

McFarland made his NASCAR debut at Daytona in February, competing in the Truck Series race. He wrecked on Lap 6 and earned a P37 finish. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleetus McFarland made his NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series debut this weekend, and Ty Dillon liked what he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-584862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}