Brandonbilt Motorsports announced Saturday morning (Aug. 13) that they have signed Kris Wright to drive the No. 68 Chevrolet in nine of the final 12 races of the 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series season in place of Brandon Brown starting at Watkins Glen on Aug. 20. Wright will bring primary sponsorship to the team from the FNB Corporation, in addition to associate backing from the Wright Automotive Group and Big Dig Energy, sponsors that were with Wright at Niece Motorsports.
Brandonbilt Motorsports announces today a driver change that will find Kris Wright @KrisOnNASCAR piloting the No. 68 Chevrolet Camaro in nine of the twelve remaining races, beginning with the NASCAR Xfinity Series Race at Watkins Glen. pic.twitter.com/GvJANFiqhZ
— Brandonbilt Motorsports (@BMSRaceTeam) August 13, 2022
Wright comes to the team after running full-time in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series for Niece Motorsports. Through 17 races, Wright is currently 26th in points with a best finish of 15th at Circuit of the Americas back in March and four DNFs, all due to crashes.
The move comes after the team ran low on funding due to a multitude of factors. Sadly, this can almost directly be traced back to Brown’s victory in last year’s Sparks 300 at Talladega Superspeedway and the winner’s interview on the frontstretch that followed. The association with that situation led to corporate sponsors seemingly shying away from sponsoring the team, in addition to other factors.
As a result, Brandonbilt Motorsports ended up staking much of the team’s future on a cryptocurrency known as the LGBCoin, named after the politically charged chant that evolved out of the mess in Talladega.
“Having the financial support of LGBcoin is incredible, especially at such a pivotal time in our team’s growth as we work to build to the next level of competition,” Brown said in a press release at the time. “From wondering if we would have the financial means to continue to compete, to my first major win (at Talladega no less), to becoming an unintentional meme, this past season was a rollercoaster. The support of sponsors like LGBcoin empowers us to be as competitive as possible and I’m looking forward to competing hard on the track in 2022.”
However, NASCAR disallowed the LGBCoin sponsorship outright as it violated NASCAR’s new policy that forbids both political sponsors and those that are politically based. As a result, the value of the LGBCoin tanked. According to…
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