NASCAR star Todd Gilliland has opened up on a regret from his career.
The 25-year-old son of long-time racer David Gilliland is now an established Cup Series driver himself, currently in his fifth full-time season, but has some things he'd do differently if given the chance.
His incredibly early start may well have contributed to some of those regrets, having run his first Truck Series race just days after his 17th birthday and been given a full-time drive for the following season.
Those early races in 2017, plus his full-time seasons in the following two years, were run as a driver for Kyle Busch Motorsports. It was in that time that he secured his first national series win (at Martinsville in late 2019), but it's also a time he has some regrets about.
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Gilliland: Wish I'd handled things differently
While he was short on the exact details about which moments specifically he'd like to go back and do again, he told The Athletic's Jeff Gluck that it's his time at KBM before his 2020 switch to Front Row Motorsports that he'd do over.
He said: "When I was in Trucks at (Kyle Busch Motorsports), I definitely wish I had some moments back at the end of my time there. (Actually) kind of the whole time at KBM. It was obviously very exciting to go there and get a great opportunity, but I didn’t make the most of it.
"At the same time, I learned a ton of different lessons during that time period. I feel like if you do everything right there, you get to the next level and then you still make some bad mistakes and learn other ways.
"So it’s hard to say. But I wish I would have handled things differently over the course of those two years."
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