Richard Childress Racing has signed Austin Hill for 2027<\/p>\n
Since the tragic passing of Kyle Busch, Austin Hill has been the driver of the No. 33 in the NASCAR Cup Series. Busch formerly drove the car with the No. 8.<\/p>\n
Tony Stewart rips NASCAR fans for flipping on Kyle Busch<\/a><\/p>\n Before taking over that seat, Hill raced full-time in the NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Series. He received a promotion from Richard Childress Racing to drive the No. 33. He also still pilot\u2019s the O\u2019Reilly Series ride for the remainder of 2026. <\/p>\n As of today, Hill will be back in the No. 33 for the 2027 season. <\/p>\n The 32-year-old has collected 16 race wins in the NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Series over 169 career starts. His bast finish in the NASCAR Cup Series was a 14th place run at Daytona International Speedway in 2023 while racing for Beard Motorsports.<\/p>\n Hill will not be eligible for Rookie of the Year in the NASCAR Cup Series for 2027 as he begins his first full-time season.<\/p>\n Corey Heim says the Rookie of the Year is losing it\u2019s value<\/a><\/p>\n Austin Hill comments<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m extremely thankful to Richard and everyone at RCR for believing in me and giving me this opportunity,\u201d Austin Hill stated via the team release. <\/p>\n \u201cEvery race car driver dreams of competing full time in the NASCAR Cup Series, and to have that opportunity with RCR is something I don\u2019t take for granted. I\u2019ve learned so much this year about what it takes to compete at this level, and I\u2019m excited to take everything I\u2019ve learned during my time at RCR and apply it to this next chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n Hill concluded, \u201cI want to do everything I can to help this organization continue moving forward. I\u2019m excited for what\u2019s ahead and ready to get to work.\u201d<\/p>\n Richard Childress comments<\/p>\n \u201cAustin Hill is a talented race car driver and his continued growth, work ethic and success across multiple levels of NASCAR competition have positioned him for his next step with RCR,\u201d said Richard Childress, Chairman and CEO of Richard Childress Racing. <\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s put a tremendous amount of effort into his career, especially this year with everything he\u2019s taken on. We\u2019ve watched Austin grow as a driver and as a person, and we\u2019re proud to have him continue that growth with RCR in the NASCAR Cup Series.\u201d<\/p>\n Links<\/p>\n Austin Hill<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Richard Childress Racing<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0NASCAR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richard Childress Racing has signed Austin Hill for 2027 Since the tragic passing of Kyle Busch, Austin Hill…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[21262,49,48,3140,634,3628,8354,10031,9536,5224,82],"class_list":["post-870613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-austin-hill","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cup-series","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup","tag-nascar-cup-series","tag-ncs","tag-richard-childress-racing","tag-silly-season","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870613","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=870613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}