After being a part-time driver for over a decade, Ryan Ellis will race the complete NASCAR Xfinity Sequence season in 2024 for Alpha Prime Racing. The staff introduced his elevated calendar on Friday.
Ellis joined APR in 2022 on a restricted calendar through which he entered twelve rounds. This was upgraded to twenty-four of thirty-three races, the bulk coming of their newly opened #43 automotive, and he has since run all however two of the primary twenty races in 2023. Whereas he has but to attain a high ten, he got here shut at Talladega when he positioned eleventh in a rain-shortened affair.
He has raced in NASCAR since 2012, initially beginning out as a street course ringer attributable to his expertise within the Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup. Within the decade-plus since, Ellis has raced in all three NASCAR nationwide divisions, making twenty-six begins within the Truck Sequence and 6 within the premier Cup Sequence. His annual motion was principally sporadic previous to becoming a member of APR.
Jeffrey Earnhardt was to the staff’s solely full-time driver for 2023 however has missed two of the final three races. As such, all three APR automobiles—the #43, #44, and #45—are all being break up between a number of names, with Ellis having raced in each the #43 and #45; his eleventh got here within the latter.
