2020 was a rough season for Landon Cassill.
After making at least 29 NASCAR Cup Series starts every season from 2011-19, Cassill was only able to put together a four-race deal with Morgan Shepherd’s NASCAR Xfinity Series team in 2020 — all start and parks.
His fortunes began to change, however, as he signed a deal to drive full time for JD Motorsports in the 2021 Xfinity Series season. In that year, Cassill recorded six top-15 finishes in 32 starts.
Cassill then caught his big break in 2022, as he was announced as the driver for Kaulig Racing’s No. 10 car with sponsorship primarily covered by Voyager, a cryptocurrency company. Kaulig was a winning team that had combined to win seven Xfinity races among three different drivers in the year prior. For a driver that had spent the majority of his career with lesser equipment and underfunded teams, a full season in Kaulig’s No. 10 car marked a huge opportunity.
And Cassill was appreciative of all of it.
“It’s awesome,” Cassill told Frontstretch. “I mean, I love racing full time. And obviously this is a completely different type of racing than I’ve done for the majority of my career. To me, [racing with Kaulig] is more just like a new challenge, and I’ve really enjoyed it.
“Just racing with this caliber of equipment and team, the number of different layers to the organization between management, engineering and technical wise, it’s just an entirely different operation.”
Cassill was paired with teammates AJ Allmendinger and Daniel Hemric in his debut season for Kaulig. Allmendinger is now a 15-time winner in the series, while Hemric won the 2021 championship with a win at Phoenix Raceway. The trio has a close bond with each other, as shown when Hemric and Cassill went out on the frontstretch to celebrate Allmendinger’s win at Talladega Superspeedway two weekends ago.
“Yeah, I mean, those guys are awesome,” Cassill said. “We all have a lot in common, and we support each other really well.”
Unfortunately for Cassill, his championship hopes were ended early in his debut season at Kaulig. He entered the regular season finale at Bristol Motor Speedway 19 points above the playoff cut line, but a mechanical failure allowed Ryan Sieg to take the final playoff spot on points. Nevertheless, Cassill remains determined to maximize the remaining races of the 2022 season.
“It’s just a matter of going in and winning and continuing to maximize what we can and support my…
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