Daniel Dye | |||||||
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Born | Daniel Wayne Dye December 4, 2003 DeLand, Florida, U.S. | ||||||
NASCAR Xfinity Series career | |||||||
12 races run over 2 years | |||||||
Car no., team | No. 10 (Kaulig Racing) | ||||||
2024 position | 89th | ||||||
Best finish | 89th (2024) | ||||||
First race | 2023 Andy's Frozen Custard 300 (Texas) | ||||||
Last race | 2024 NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship Race (Phoenix) | ||||||
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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career | |||||||
46 races run over 2 years | |||||||
2024 position | 10th | ||||||
Best finish | 10th (2024) | ||||||
First race | 2023 NextEra Energy 250 (Daytona) | ||||||
Last race | 2024 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Championship Race (Phoenix) | ||||||
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ARCA Menards Series career | |||||||
26 races run over 2 years | |||||||
Best finish | 2nd (2022) | ||||||
First race | 2021 Menards 250 (Elko) | ||||||
Last race | 2022 Shore Lunch 200 (Toledo) | ||||||
First win | 2021 Zinsser SmartCoat 200 (Berlin) | ||||||
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ARCA Menards Series East career | |||||||
13 races run over 3 years | |||||||
Best finish | 2nd (2021) | ||||||
First race | 2019 New Smyrna 175 (New Smyrna) | ||||||
Last race | 2022 Bush's Beans 200 (Bristol) | ||||||
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ARCA Menards Series West career | |||||||
3 races run over 2 years | |||||||
Best finish | 36th (2022) | ||||||
First race | 2021 Arizona Lottery 100 (Phoenix) | ||||||
Last race | 2022 Portland 112 (Portland) | ||||||
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Statistics current as of November 9, 2024. |
Daniel Wayne Dye (born December 4, 2003) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 10 Chevrolet Camaro for Kaulig Racing.
Dye would first race in the ARCA Menards Series East in 2020, driving the No. 43 for Ben Kennedy Racing. [1] Dye would race two races that season, retiring at New Smyrna Speedway and finishing seventh at Five Flags Speedway.
Dye would come back in the 2021 season, this time with a scheduled full-time ride with Ben Kennedy Racing. [2] However, Dye would only compete for four of the scheduled eight races before eventually switching teams. For the last four races of the season, Dye would race the No. 21 for GMS Racing. [3] Dye, combined with his results from Ben Kennedy Racing and GMS Racing, would finish second in the final standings, only being beaten by Sammy Smith.
Dye would first race in the ARCA Menards Series West as a one-off race at Phoenix Raceway, driving the No. 22 for GMS Racing in 2021, he would finish 12th. In 2022, he ran at Phoenix again in a companion event with the ARCA Menards Series, finishing second.
Dye would run a part-time schedule in the ARCA Menards Series in 2021 with GMS Racing, driving the No. 21 along with his full-time schedule in the ARCA Menards Series East. He would run six races in the 2021 season. After a seventh-place finish in his debut at the 2021 Menards 250, Dye would dominate the next race at Berlin Raceway in the 2021 Zinsser SmartCoat 200, scoring his first-ever ARCA Menards Series win in just his second-ever start in the series. [4]
In 2022, he planned to run a full-time schedule for GMS Racing in the No. 43. Dye was instead charged with felony battery [5] after striking a fellow student in the scrotum [6] in what witnesses described as a "game". [7] Dye was indefinitely suspended from ARCA competition after three races. [8] Prior to the race at the Kansas Speedway, Dye was reinstated by ARCA after his charges were dropped from felony to misdemeanor and went on to compete in the event, finishing 3rd. [9] [10] Despite not winning a race, he nearly won the Championship until a mechanical issue relegated him to an 18th-place finish at the season finale in Toledo, which resulted in a runner-up to Nick Sanchez by 14 points in the final standings. Despite this, he won Rookie of the Year honors ahead of Sanchez's teammate Rajah Caruth.
On October 25, 2022, GMS Racing announced that Dye would compete full-time in the 2023 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, making his series debut in the No. 43 Chevrolet Silverado. [11]
On September 27, 2023, Dye signed with McAnally-Hilgemann Racing for 2024. Dye will continue using the No. 43. [12]
On February 23, Dye would win his first career pole at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
On June 28, Dye would grab his first top 5 finish of the year, finishing 2nd at Nashville Superspeedway.
On August 10, Dye finished eighth at Richmond, earning enough points to secure a spot in the Playoffs.
On September 17, 2023, it was announced that Dye would run three races in the NASCAR Xfinity Series for Alpha Prime Racing, driving the No. 44 Chevrolet with sponsorship from Champion Container. [13]
In 2024, Dye ran a partial schedule with Kaulig Racing, driving the No. 10 Chevrolet Camaro.
On August 23, 2024, Kaulig Racing announced that Dye will pilot the No. 10 full-time in 2025. [14]
Dye is a second-generation driver, the son of Stacy Rumbaugh and Randy Dye, a businessman in Daytona Beach, Florida who owns two auto dealerships: Daytona Dodge Chrysler Jeep Ram and Maserati Alfa Romeo of Daytona. [15] Randy Dye was a former Pro Late Model driver who since July 2017 has served on the board of directors for The NASCAR Foundation. He is a cousin of MLB player for the Kansas City Royals, Josh Dye.
Dye attended Father Lopez Catholic High School. [16] While a student at Father Lopez, Dye was arrested on April 26, 2022 and booked in Volusia County Branch Jail on charges of felony battery, later reduced to misdemeanor battery. According to a police report, Dye "began dancing and grinding with his groin and pelvic area near his classmate's face" and then "came up from behind the boy and punched him in the groin", with the victim suffering "a possible ruptured testicle." [17] [18] Dye was granted a deferred prosecution agreement and ordered to complete an eight-hour anger management course, 25 hours of community service, and compensate the victim an undisclosed amount. [19]
His father, Randy, was a candidate in the 2024 Volusia County Council Chair election. [20] He was defeated by incumbent county chairman Jeff Brower in the November runoff. [21]
At the end of 2018 with his Pro Late Model debut on the horizon, he created the Race to Stop Suicide campaign in partnership with The NASCAR Foundation and Halifax Health with help from his father Randy who serves on the board of directors for The NASCAR Foundation.
In October 2019, at only 15-years-old, Dye himself raised and donated over $15,000 towards Halifax Health's mental health programs. [22]
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
NASCAR Xfinity Series results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | NXSC | Pts | Ref | |
2023 | Alpha Prime Racing | 44 | Chevy | DAY | CAL | LVS | PHO | ATL | COA | RCH | MAR | TAL | DOV | DAR | CLT | PIR | SON | NSH | CSC | ATL | NHA | POC | ROA | MCH | IRC | GLN | DAY | DAR | KAN | BRI | TEX 17 | ROV | LVS 21 | HOM | MAR | PHO PR† | 95th | 01 | [23] | |
2024 | Kaulig Racing | 10 | Chevy | DAY 27 | ATL | LVS | PHO | COA | RCH | MAR | TEX 24 | TAL | DOV 20 | DAR | CLT | PIR | SON | IOW 10 | NHA | NSH | CSC | POC 17 | IND 7 | MCH 34 | DAY | DAR | ATL | GLN | BRI | KAN 34 | TAL | ROV | LVS 12 | HOM | MAR | PHO 17 | 89th | 01 | [24] | |
2025 | DAY | ATL | COA | PHO | LVS | HOM | MAR | DAR | BRI | CAR | TAL | TEX | CLT | NSH | MXC | POC | ATL | CSC | SON | DOV | IND | IOW | GLN | DAY | PIR | GTW | BRI | KAN | ROV | LVS | TAL | MAR | PHO | -* | -* | |||||
† – Replaced by Leland Honeyman before qualifying. |
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | NCTC | Pts | Ref | |||||||||||||||
2023 | GMS Racing | 43 | Chevy | DAY 30 | LVS 19 | ATL 16 | COA 18 | TEX 25 | BRD 22 | MAR 30 | KAN 13 | DAR 19 | NWS 14 | CLT 19 | GTW 11 | NSH 22 | MOH 14 | POC 17 | RCH 21 | IRP 22 | MLW 28 | KAN 23 | BRI 21 | TAL 6 | HOM 21 | PHO 32 | 18th | 389 | [25] | |||||||||||||||
2024 | McAnally-Hilgemann Racing | Chevy | DAY 21 | ATL 9 | LVS 24 | BRI 13 | COA 28 | MAR 13 | TEX 6 | KAN 9 | DAR 23 | NWS 9 | CLT 19 | GTW 12 | NSH 2 | POC 16 | IRP 27 | RCH 8 | MLW 8 | BRI 32 | KAN 27 | TAL 3 | HOM 7 | MAR 32 | PHO 24 | 10th | 2141 | [26] |
* Season still in progress
1 Ineligible for series points
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
ARCA Menards Series results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | AMSC | Pts | Ref |
2021 | GMS Racing | 21 | Chevy | DAY | PHO | TAL | KAN | TOL | CLT | MOH | POC | ELK 7 | BLN 1* | IOW 2 | WIN 13 | GLN | MCH | ISF | MLW 3 | DSF | BRI 12 | SLM | KAN | 18th | 231 | [27] |
2022 | 43 | DAY 3 | PHO 2 | TAL 17 | KAN 3 | CLT 6 | IOW 17 | BLN 7* | ELK 5 | MOH 8 | POC 5 | IRP 4 | MCH 3 | GLN 4 | ISF 7 | MLW 3 | DSF 4 | KAN 4 | BRI 5 | SLM 3 | TOL 18 | 2nd | 956 | [28] |
ARCA Menards Series East results | ||||||||||||||
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Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | AMSEC | Pts | Ref |
2020 | Ben Kennedy Racing | 43 | Chevy | NSM 19 | TOL | DOV | TOL | BRI | FIF 7 | 22nd | 62 | [29] | ||
2021 | NSM 6 | FIF 9 | NSV 8 | DOV 6 | 2nd | 351 | [30] | |||||||
GMS Racing | 21 | Chevy | SNM 6 | IOW 2 | MLW 3 | BRI 12 | ||||||||
2022 | 43 | NSM | FIF | DOV | NSV | IOW 17 | MLW 3 | BRI 5 | 12th | 107 | [31] | |||
ARCA Menards Series West results | |||||||||||||||||
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Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | AMSWC | Pts | Ref |
2021 | GMS Racing | 22 | Chevy | PHO | SON | IRW | CNS | IRW | PIR | LVS | AAS | PHO 12 | 51st | 32 | [32] | ||
2022 | 43 | PHO 2 | IRW | KCR | 36th | 84 | [33] | ||||||||||
Bill McAnally Racing | PIR 4 | SON | IRW | EVG | PIR | AAS | LVS | PHO |
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