Parker Retzlaff has had a busy 2022 season as the previous ARCA driver started dabbling in NASCAR‘s nationwide tiers. On Monday, Younger’s Motorsports introduced he’ll compete within the Tenting World Truck Sequence for the primary time, driving the #20 Chevrolet Silverado RST on Saturday at Talladega Superspeedway. Retzlaff has no prior expertise on superspeedways, having by no means competed at Talladega or Daytona Worldwide Speedway.
The 19-year-old entered the Xfinity Sequence on a ten-race cope with RSS Racing, although finally tried simply 5 with a finest end of tenth at Richmond. Final Saturday, after solely racing with Toyota and Ford, he switched to Chevrolet for the primary time by working Texas for Our Motorsports and completed twenty-first.
The current streak of Chevrolet groups comes within the wake of Retzlaff becoming a member of Staff Dillon Administration, a expertise company led by Chevrolet driver Austin Dillon.
Retzlaff posted on Twitter, “Excited to make my first @NASCAR truck collection begin this weekend @TALLADEGA with @youngsmtrsports and @FunkAway on the truck!”
Younger’s Motorsports has received twice at Talladega with Spencer Boyd in 2019 and Tate Fogleman in 2021. Boyd can be a team-mate of Retzlaff within the #12.
The staff’s #20 is twenty-ninth in proprietor factors with a number of drivers having made begins together with Dillon, Jesse Little, Danny Bohn, Trey Burke, Sheldon Creed, Joey Gase, Leland Honeyman, Matt Mills, Thad Moffitt, Stefan Parsons, and Dillon Steuer. Bohn holds the truck’s finest end of eighth at Daytona whereas Creed received the pole at COTA.
