Joey Coulter, last year's top rookie in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, will give a different circuit a try this weekend. Now only if team owner Richard Childress is able to keep his roster of drivers in order with radio communications.
Coulter, 21, will make his NASCAR Nationwide Series debut in Saturday's History 300 (ABC, 2:30 p.m. ET) at Charlotte Motor Speedway, joining a roster of budding young talent climbing the racing ladder for Richard Childress Racing.
Coulter explained to the media Thursday how reassuring it was to have Childress, winner of multiple NASCAR titles as a car owner, on the other side of the headset as he cuts his teeth in stock-car racing. That's when Austin Dillon, Childress' grandson and Nationwide rookie of the year candidate, chimed in.
"Joey forgot to tell you how many times he's been called Austin, or Ty (Dillon) or Elliott (Sadler)," Austin Dillon said. "My grandfather came on and called me Elliott last week...
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