Brandon McReynolds Returns to K&N West with Bill McAnally Racing

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Brandon McReynolds at 9 pm Monday, March 23, 2015 Photo - Jerry Markland/Getty Images

Brandon McReynolds on Fan4Racing Fan2Fan NASCAR & Race Talk at 9 pm Monday, March 23, 2015 Photo – Jerry Markland/Getty Images

Brandon McReynolds is our guest on Fan4Racing Fan2Fan NASCAR & Race Talk on Monday, March 23, 2015 at 9 pm ET. During the LIVE broadcast, call 714-202-9918 or tweet @Fan4RacingSite or @Sal_Sigala with any questions or comments.  

As a five-time champion in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West, BMR expanded last year into the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East – becoming the only team to race full time in both the East and West divisions.

“We’re looking forward to our second year of competing in the K&N West and K&N East,” McAnally said. “I’m confident the teams will build on their successes from 2014.”

BMR is expanding its program this year in the K&N West, meanwhile, to feature two full-time teams – with Brandon McReynolds back behind the wheel of the No. 16 NAPA AUTO PARTS Toyota for a second season and Chris Eggleston driving the No. 99 NAPA Filters/ H2O Fire Protection Toyota in his rookie season in the series. BMR’s focus in the K&N East will have Nick Drake back in the No. 15 NAPA AUTO PARTS Toyota. Cole Custer will return to run select events in the East and West divisions for BMR in 2015, driving the No. 00 NAPA AUTO PARTS/HAAS Automation entry.

In his first full season of competing in the K&N West last year, McReynolds won the Most Popular Driver Award and is part of the NASCAR Next program, which spotlights NASCAR’s rising stars. The 23-year-old from Mooresville, North Carolina, finished fourth in the championship standings. He garnered two poles and put together a string of nine consecutive top-five finishes. He is the son of television race analyst and former NASCAR Sprint Cup Series crew chief Larry McReynolds.

“We have some unfinished business with Brandon in the K&N West,” McAnally said. “We’re looking forward to capitalizing on his consistent performance last year.”

McReynolds offered a similar perspective on the season.

“I’m definitely excited after last year,” he said. “It was kind of an up and down year, although our finishes were always respectable. I think we established a good foundation to build on, as I go forward into my second year at BMR.

“Speed obviously wasn’t a problem all year in the NAPA Toyota,” McReynolds said. “It was just a matter of closing the deal. Looking forward to this year, I know we’re really going to push hard on being perfect with our preparation and try to excel and take advantage of our windows of opportunity on the race track.”

The K&N West 2015 season opener, NAPA Auto Parts 150 is at Kern County Raceway Park near Bakersfield, California on March 28. The race broadcast is on April 3 at 6:30 pm ET on NBCSN.