Jesse Love Racing With Beard Motorsports at Texas, Indianapolis

Jesse Love will make a pair of NASCAR Cup Series starts with Beard Motorsports, driving the team's No. 62 Chevrolet at Texas Motor Speedway and Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Love is currently in his second full-time season in the NASCAR Xfinity Series with Richard Childress Racing. He has two career Xfinity Series wins, including a victory in the season opener this year at Daytona International Speedway.

The 20-year-old from California also made his NASCAR Cup Series debut at Bristol Motor Speedway last Sunday, competing with Richard Childress Racing in that event.

“Making my Cup Series debut last week at Bristol was a moment that I had been working towards my entire life,” Love said. “Thanks to the Beard family, I’ll have a chance to at least do it a couple more times this season. The goals are to keep collecting experience and learning the Cup car. Both races at Texas and Indy will allow me to gain knowledge of how this car races at different tracks, which will hopefully set me up to pounce on future opportunities. Even though they’re a small, family-owned team, the Beards have built a legacy of bringing fast and well-prepared racecars to the track. I’m looking forward to seeing what we can do together.”

He will now be part of Beard Motorsports' first appearances at Texas and Indianapolis. The team has 30 prior NASCAR Cup Series starts, with the majority coming at the superspeedways of Daytona International Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway.

“We are very excited to be able to expand our racing program and visit tracks that our new to us,” said Amie Beard-Deja, executive vice president of Beard Motorsports. “When my dad started this program we wanted to focus on the superspeedways. Our plan was to make that our niche and to do it well and we feel like we have been able to do that very thing. During the last couple of seasons we had partners that were interested in races outside of those that take place at Daytona and Talladega and that presented a different challenge and we enjoyed it.

“We have been watching Jesse Love in his racing endeavors and have certainly been impressed with what he has been doing so it was a no-brainer for us to take on the challenge of preparing cars for and competing in the races that will take place this season at Texas and Indianapolis.”

C4 Energy will sponsor the No. 62 Beard Racing Chevrolet for the races at Texas and Indianapolis. The Wurth 400 at Texas Motor Speedway is scheduled for May 4, while the Brickyard 400 takes place on July 27 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

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