Casey Carden figures to have a busy weekend by working each the ARCA Menards Collection and NASCAR Xfinity Collection races at Watkins Glen Worldwide. He has joined Rise Motorsports for the previous whereas hoping to make his début within the latter with CHK Racing‘s #74 Chevrolet Camaro.
“I’m very grateful that Mike Harmon has given me the chance to attempt to qualify for the Xfinity race at Watkins Glen and that Reel Racing has come aboard to assist me for this race,” mentioned Carden. “I’m hoping my highway course background and ARCA expertise will assist me make the present as I stay the dream this Saturday.”
Carden started competing in inventory automobiles in 2022 as an ARCA highway course ringer with Clubb Racing, and ran his first oval race at Elko in June with the workforce adopted by IRP final Friday. He retired from all however one in every of his 5 begins for Clubb, with the lone end being a fifteenth on the 2022 Watkins Glen occasion. The begins are supposed to set him up for a full marketing campaign in 2024.
Previous to ARCA, he was a sports activities automobile racer in Lamborghini Tremendous Trofeo and the IMSA Michelin Pilot Problem. He additionally runs a workforce within the American Endurance Racing Collection.
“We’re happy to have Carden in our CHK Racing’s #74 Chevrolet Camaro throughout the 2023 NASCAR Xfinity Collection race at Watkins Glen,” commented CHK proprietor Mike Harmon. “Carden has expertise in highway programs within the ARCA collection and can be an important power for us.”
CHK Racing hopes Carden can flip their luck round, particularly on highway programs. The workforce has struggled to qualify in 2023, having made solely 4 of the sixteen races they entered and missed the present at each highway races they entered in Austin and Chicago. Harmon, Dawson Cram, Kaden Honeycutt, Baltazar Leguizamón, and Ryan Vargas have all tried races within the #74 with Cram making three and holding its greatest end so far of twenty-eighth at Michigan.
“It will likely be a tall order to make the present with no prior expertise in an Xfinity automobile, however there is no such thing as a give up in me and we are going to present up decided to offer it our all and stay the dream,” wrote Carden on social media.
