CONCORD, N.C. – As strange as it may sound, it is both difficult and refreshingly simple to explain what and how much it means to have the No. 3 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet back in Victory Lane in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series.
Austin Dillon put it there in Sunday’s rain-delayed Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, inheriting the lead when leader Jimmie Johnson ran out of fuel just two laps from the finish.
Dillon, running his own fuel-mileage gambit, hung on for the first win of his young career in the car number made famous by the late Dale Earnhardt.