This has been a kind of individual revelation for rodney children in the last summer.
When the head of the experienced crew participated in a manner with Spire Motorsports and Driver Justin Haley After just nine races in April, children felt that it was the most important thing to go back to the cup series and win the race and fight for the championship.
It was a matter of pride, there was a need to validate its place in the game, but they were forced to revaluate those priorities in summer when nothing happened immediately. Instead, the children went back to the roots of their late model stock cars, reconnaissance with Kevin Harvick In cars tour, young driver with Landen Lewis.
He has won four times this season and is also championship leaders. Meanwhile, children have practically done at home every Sunday with their wife Katrina and sons Body and Gavin. He wants to compete at the highest levels, but has also enjoyed being a full -time husband and father again.
It has been compromised, it seems with Children prepared to join JR motorsports, now called Xfinity Series. with Carson Quapil And Connor Zilisk Behind the wheel.
“For me, in the last few months, I just started looking at the things differently,” the childrs told the motorcystrom on the phone on Wednesday. “I always felt that I need to prove something and win more cup championships or Detona 500, but then I realized that there is more life than this.
“I opened myself to talk to some truck series teams about some opportunities and surprised Dale. He asked me, ‘Do you really have anything, yet, yet,’ and I told him where I was and then he told me about Conner and Carson and it was just a dream landscape.
“It is basically an old car that we had a lot of success on Sunday in the church with Katrina and boys, two really running with extraordinary young drivers and I cannot say ‘yes’ very fast.”
“Cup garage is in a different place right now”
This does not mean that children have closed the door to lead a team at the highest level, but he also admits that he is 49 years old and does not see a lot of 50-plus shot collar on the cup pit box these days.
“So it’s difficult to say,” he said. “I will learn a lot about myself next year because we go along. Perhaps I really love at home on Sunday. It is probably really harassing me that I don’t come home when I go home and they are still running on Sunday.”
Children indicated a world in which he added a Xfinity Series Championship for the Cup title won with Harvik in 2014 Stewart-hus racingHe may be at the highest level in 40.
Race Winner and 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champion Kevin Harvick, Stewart-Hous Racing Chevrolet celebrated with Crew Chief Rodney Children, Tony Stewart, Delna Harvik and Jean Haas
By photo: Eric Gilbert
He said, “Maybe I would like to add me a truck series championship before I die.”
To say all this, again, that they have felt that the cup is more for life than racing in the chain, especially if the right opportunity does not present themselves. And what is worth it, he saw, North Wilcaseborough, Richmond and Darlington were traveling several trips for the race track.
He said, “The cup garage is in a different place right now, a lot of teams either set or want to try something,” he said.
Children actually admire what Mardi Lindley has done as the head of the crew for the zilisk in the number 88 car in junior motorsports this year. Children, such as lindley, is a former late model stock driver, the head of the crew, who has fully strengthened themselves in this space.
Lindley is 53 years old and looks like one of the leaders of the leading team in a space that is the intersection of the next generation and the mainstay of the experienced series.
Now O’Relli Auto Parts Series Teams get to deal with that the tour teams of cars have faced all summer – competition against future NASCAR Hall of Famer.
“I mean a ton,” childers said about pride that he feels about the performance of respect from his peers at every level. “But it was not just me anywhere on the way. We had good people at every stop and I am a sponge of what people have to teach me, fab friends, tire experts and engineers.
“You have to achieve success at this level.”
Encouraged to work with jrm
Carson Quapil, Junior Motisports Chevrolet
Photo: Jeffrey West / Icon Sportswire through Getty Image
But again, everyone told, it is about working together Dale Arnhard Junior. And Kelly Arnhard-Miller and two possibilities gathered in JR Motorsports, one of them is already ready to do full-time cup racing next year.
“I can’t tell you how much I have seen Dell and Kelly Smile this week,” the children said. “How much did I smile.
“I can’t wait to know Carson better. I know that I have great respect for him and his family. I know how seriously the car takes his racing and ensures that he has the right people around him to progress.
“This was this with Kevin. We were successful for how we communicated. Carson and I are a pair of late model stock people. It’s like Josh (Berry). It matters a lot to me that I played a role in getting her where she is now. It was about finding some confidence and she knew that she is the same thing here.”
Finally, children know that he has to win in JRM with these drivers, and there is a pressure and privilege associated with it.
“When I ran with Kevin, if we did not win, it was my fault,” the children said. “I don’t know that this is the best way to keep it publicly, but I have to feel like this. It means no difference, I to find out what my driver needs, because we have car and driver.
“I can’t just be in a position to wait for anyone. It is waiting for someone to find out for me. This car is my responsibility. This means that it means to get the most, find the right people, and go to it fast. It needs to win.”
