NASCAR powerhouse considered stopping after first win
By Asher Fair
Kaulig Racing: Will Cup Series team be a distraction?
The team still compete in the NASCAR Xfinity Series with three full-time entries. A.J. Allmendinger, Daniel Hemric, and Landon Cassill are their drivers.
Matt Kaulig believes that having a Cup Series program will only make the Xfinity Series team stronger, not serve as a distraction.
“We think it makes it better,” he admitted. “Even with most of those guys getting full-time. Landon is driving some Cup races as well, not for us but for Spire, this year. So all of our drivers who we have in the Xfinity Series are going to be running Cup. And so it gets those guys better competition, they get more seat time.
“All of our crew chiefs and engineers, we definitely just work on Xfinity cars and have all of our people working on Xfinity, and then we have separate people working on the Cup stuff. So the same people aren’t doing Cup and Xfinity. That’s definitely a separate team. But we feel it helps our overall program, it definitely helps our Xfinity program, being in the Cup Series. And that’s why other Cup teams do that, they run Xfinity as well, because it just helps get everybody used to it.”