One of the young starts of Nascar, Erik Jones, will run for the X-FINITY Series championship and a limited Sprint Cup schedule for Joe Gibbs Racing in 2016, but team owner Joe Gibbs has not revealed the organization’s plans for the nineteen-year-old driver beyond next season. Jones is currently running a full schedule in the Camping World Truck Series for Kyle Busch Motorsports. He’s the leading candidate for Rookie of the Year and is currently third overall in the point standings – behind only Tyler Reddick and two-time defending series champion Matt Crafton. Jones also has made seventeen starts in the X-FINITY Series with wins at Chicagoland Speedway and Texas Motor Speedway. He filled in for the injured Kyle Busch at the Sprint Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway 
in early May, where he finished fortieth in his Cup debut.
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