When NASCAR and TNT introduced the in-season challenge, a bracket-style tournament with a $1 million prize for the winning driver, absolutely no one would have realistically picked Kaulig Racing's Ty Dillon as a potential winner.
And yet, the No. 32 seed defeated Denny Hamlin at Atlanta after Hamlin's early exit from the race, later doing the same with Brad Keselowski when the former Cup champion crashed in Chicago.
