Some great news for Chili Bowl winner Rico Abreu ~ Rico Abreu is officially following in the footsteps of Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart, and best friend Kyle Larson, making the jump from the dirt of sprint car racing to the asphalt of NASCAR in 2015. On Tuesday, the winner of Saturday nights prestigious Chili Bowl Nationals in Tulsa, Oklahoma, will announce a deal with HScott Motorsports with Justin Marks to drive the full 2015 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East schedule, a feeder series to NASCAR racings highest levels. His venture into stock car racing will begin this weekend with the NASCAR-sanctioned Pete Orr Memorial Super Late Model 100 at the New Smyrna Speedway in Florida, followed by his K&N debut at the same track on Feb. 15.Sources tell ESPN The Magazine that these races will serve as the first stages of a driver development agreement with Chip Ganassi Racing, whom Larson drives for in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Ganassi did little to keep the secret on Saturday night, following the Chili Bowl finish by excitedly posting in his second-ever (and since deleted) tweet: Theres a name youll be hearing more of. Stay Tuned! Also among the most notable post-Chili Bowl congratulatory tweets was one from NASCAR VP of Racing Operations Steve ODonnell: Congrats @Rico_Abreu looking forward to seeing you in #nascar.espn.go/racing/nascar/story/_/id/12197346/nascar-little-rico-abreu-getting-big-break
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 14:55:23 +0000
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