Austin Dillon is a professional stock car racer who is very good at what he does. He drives the No. 3 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series.

Austin and his brother Ty own the company Team Dillon Management, which manages both of them.

Richard Childress and Austin Dillon are related; they are grandfather and grandson

Austin Dillon is the grandson of Richard Childress, who used to drive in NASCAR and now owns the team Richard Childress Racing.

Richard became one of the wealthiest people in North Carolina. He was on the Board of Directors for the National Rifle Association when he was a NASCAR driver.

This summer, Austin’s grandfather will compete in the new Professional Bull Riders Team Series as the owner of a team. Richard will be the “owner-operator” of one of the new league’s eight city-based teams, the Carolina Cowboys.

Austin, who is Richard’s grandson and a driver for the RCR NASCAR Cup team, will be in charge of running the Cowboys.

What’s Austin Dillon’s net worth? Value in 2022

Celebritynetworth says that Austin Dillon has a net worth of about $12 million.

The racer makes most of his money as a professional stock car driver. The money he has made so far has helped him live a comfortable life. Austin won the 2011 Camping World Truck Series, the 2013 Nationwide Series, and the 2018 Daytona 500.

The Bandolero Mini Cars and Legend Cars series were where he started racing. A year later, Austin started racing on dirt tracks at Dale McDowell’s school for dirt late model racing.

Austin’s first race in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series was in the Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway on October 9, 2011. Dillon came in 26th place in the No. 98 Camping World Curb/Agajanian Racing Chevrolet Impala.

Before he won the championship, Dillon also won the Rookie of the Year award in both series. Dillon also holds the record for the Nationwide Series with four poles in a row.

In the 2019 movie Stuber, he had a small role. In Season 3, Episode 14 of the TV show SEAL Team, the racer showed up as a NASCAR driving instructor for the main characters.

In The Crew, a 2021 Netflix show about NASCAR, Austin and fellow Cup racers Cole Custer and Ryan Blaney had small roles.

What’s Richard Childress’s net worth? Value in 2022

According to Celebritynetworth, Richard Childress has a net worth of about $250 million.

The former NASCAR driver’s career began in 1969, when a strike by drivers at Talladega Superspeedway forced NASCAR president William France Sr. to look for replacement drivers.

By 1971, Richard was racing on his own as a driver with the number 96. As a way to honor Junior Johnson, Childress moved to the third spot in 1976.

Childress never won a race, but he was a good and consistent driver. He finished in the top five six times, in the top ten 76 times, and in the top 10 in points five times, with a best ranking of fifth in 1975. Richard did win the Metrolina 200, which was an unofficial invitational race, in 1974.

After Rod Osterlund’s NASCAR team was sold to J.D. Stacy in 1981 and Dale Earnhardt refused to drive for Stacy, the driver gave up racing.