{"id":5286,"date":"2025-07-12T22:36:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T22:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/5286\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T22:36:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T22:36:06","slug":"supercars-news-nascar-rising-star-in-talks-for-super2-cameo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/5286\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: NASCAR rising star in talks for Super2 cameo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NASCARJesse Love is an Xfinity Series race winner. Image: Richard Childress Racing<\/p>\n

Image Racing boss Terry Wyhoon has put preliminary plans in place to expand his squad to four-cars to field Richard Childress Racing\u2019s Jesse Love in the Super2 finale.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old California native is currently in his second Xfinity season with RCR and is also making selected runs in the Cup Series.<\/p>\n

Former Australian NASCAR racer Wyhoon has close ties to RCR thanks to ex-Image engineer Andrew Dickeson, who works for RCR customer team Kaulig Racing.<\/p>\n

Wyhoon and Dickeson were part of initial efforts to get RCR\u2019s Kyle Busch to Adelaide in 2024, when the two-time Cup champion was to drive in both the Supercars and Super2 divisions.<\/p>\n

While a high-profile bid from Adelaide organisers and sponsor NAPA to secure Kyle Larson for this year have fallen flat, Wyhoon and Dickeson are quietly working on their Super2 plan.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe felt that after the Kyle Busch thing fell over, we needed to let everyone calm down a bit,\u201d Wyhoon told Speedcafe.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe started thinking about some other young talent who are pretty keen to do some road racing. It\u2019s such a big thing now for them. If you win a road race you\u2019re locked in [to the Playoffs].<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Jesse can make it happen with budget, I\u2019d love to run him. He\u2019s a ripper kid and he drove the car in Texas when we were there in 2023.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jesse Love. Image: Richard Childress Racing<\/p>\n

The car Wyhoon refers to is a Walkinshaw Racing-built Holden Commodore VF V8 Supercar that is based in the US and occasionally used by NASCAR drivers for road course training.<\/p>\n

Strict testing rules mean teams are unable to test with NASCAR machinery and, despite being right-hand drive, the Commodore is seen as a useful practice vehicle.<\/p>\n

Wyhoon was recently in the US to oversee the car\u2019s latest test run at Virginia International Raceway involving Kaulig drivers AJ Allmendinger, Ty Dillon and Daniel Dye.<\/p>\n

NASCAR is currently amid a swing of road course events that include this morning\u2019s Xfinity race at Sonoma, California, for which Love has qualified fourth.<\/p>\n

Wyhoon is meanwhile busy running his three Super2 entries in Townsville and said he\u2019ll know more about the possible Love cameo in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

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Love in action at Sonoma. Image: Richard Childress Racing<\/p>\n

\u201cI said to Andrew the other week, I need to get through Townsville and QR (Queensland Raceway), this is priority, then we can really start chewing the fat over it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve already talked to Brad Jones about getting another Super2 car and a crew and whatnot to run it. It\u2019s all very doable.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we\u2019ll know a lot more in the next couple of weeks. Andrew is pretty keen for it to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for how Love would fare if thrown into the Super2 field?<\/p>\n

\u201cAll I know is he\u2019d walk away from there a better road racer,\u201d said Wyhoon of a driver who finished sixth in the Xfinity race on the streets of Chicago last weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd he\u2019d have a nice trip to Australia and a good experience with us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jesse Love is an Xfinity Series race winner. Image: Richard Childress Racing Image Racing boss Terry Wyhoon has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[5760,425,5761,99,5762],"class_list":["post-5286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-image-racing","tag-nascar","tag-slot1","tag-sports","tag-terry-wyhoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}