Myatt Snider / No. 19 Tree Top Toyota GR Supra Preview – Dead On Tools 250 at Martinsville Speedway - Speedway Digest

SNIDER AT MARTINSVILLE: Myatt Snider and the No. 19 Tree Top Toyota GR Supra head to Martinsville Speedway this weekend, where the 28-year-old Charlotte, NC native will make his first short-track start of the year. Snider has five previous NASCAR Xfinity Series starts at the series’ shortest track on the schedule, highlighted by a best finish of 13^th in 2021. Snider also ran three races in the NCTS at ‘the paperclip’, where he has three top-10s, including a third-place finish in 2018. Earlier this spring, the No. 19 team finished 12^th at Martinsville with Ryan Truex behind the wheel.

CONGRATS ON 800, JASON!: Jason Ratcliff, crew chief of the No. 19 Toyota GR Supra, is set to make his 800^th career start this weekend in Martinsville. With 253 NCS starts and 546 NXS starts, Ratcliff has built a legacy on winning and consistency, highlighted by 15 NCS wins and the most wins for a crew chief in NXS history at 57. Throughout his 799 starts, Ratcliff boasts a 51% top-10 rate (46% in NCS, 53% in NXS), which stands as a true testament to his commitment to competing on a weekly basis. The 2009 NXS champion crew chief is a staple of the Joe Gibbs Racing family, as he is amidst his 18^th year with the team.

PREVIOUSLY AT JGR: Snider’s last start for JGR came two weeks ago in Las Vegas where he finished 11^th. The race was Snider’s first start at an intermediate track since Phoenix in the fall of 2022, but Snider showed little rust as he fought hard for a quality finish for the entirety of the race. After starting 19^th, Snider worked his way up to 12^th by the end of stage one, followed by an 11^th place finish in stage two, and came up just shy of cracking the top-10 by the time the checkered flag waved.

FROM INTERN TO DRIVER: Snider’s relationship with JGR started all the way back in 2014 when he joined the team as a fabrication intern. From there, he continued to be a part of the JGR family as a mechanic. Snider spent a total of three years with the team and now watches his career come full circle as he gets behind the wheel for the same organization he once worked for as a young man.

ON THE PITBOX: Crew Chief Jason Ratcliff will oversee the No. 19 team and its driver rotation in 2023. Ratcliff is in year 18 under the JGR banner. He won the 2009 Xfinity Championship in tandem with Kyle Busch after an eight-win season. The championship-winning crew chief has 57 Xfinity wins across seven different drivers, including current JGR NCS driver, Christopher Bell. He has 15 NCS wins as crew chief between two former JGR drivers – Matt Kenseth and Joey Logano. Ratcliff has three wins this season with Ryan Truex at Dover, Ty Gibbs at Indianapolis, and Denny Hamlin at Darlington.

THE 19 IN 2023: The JGR No. 19 will have a rotating schedule of drivers throughout the 2023 season. Drivers who have raced the No. 19 as of Martinsville are Ty Gibbs, Connor Mosack, Ryan Truex, Denny Hamlin, Joe Graf Jr., Trevor Bayne, and Snider. With three wins on the year from Truex, Gibbs, and Hamlin, the group of drivers have carried the No. 19 Toyota GR Supra to ninth in the owners’ points standings. Snider is slated finish out the season for the No. 19 Toyota GR Supra.

JGR AT MARTINSVILLE: Joe Gibbs Racing has earned four NXS victories at Martinsville Speedway, including John Hunter Nemechek’s win in the spring of this season. In 22 combined starts at the track, JGR has 10 top-fives, 17 top-10s, and 871 laps led. Most notably, JGR has completed every lap of every race they have entered at Martinsville (5,618 out of 5,618) and holds an impressiveaverage finish of 8.0.

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RACE INFO: Coverage of this weekend’s NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Martinsville Speedway is scheduled for Saturday, October 28, at 3:30 p.m. ET on USA Network, MRN Radio, and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.

Myatt Snider, Driver of the No. 19 Tree Top Toyota GR Supra

What are your thoughts as you head into your first short track of the season?

“Luckily, there’s been a lot of ‘firsts’ this year so I’m prepared for it. Running a part time schedule forces you to adapt and perform at a moment’s notice so that’s the approach heading into this weekend. I’m actually really excited to get out there this weekend. Joe Gibbs Racing has a great track record at Martinsville, and I know Jason (Ratcliff) is going to put together a strong Tree Top Toyota GR Supra, so it’s going to be a matter of execution. Hopefully we can put ourselves in a position to win, the cards fall in our favor, and we find ourselves taking home a grandfather clock on Saturday.”

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