Rick Hendrick made William Byron an offer he couldn't won't. 

Sunday night after the race at Watkins Glen, the gathering proprietor offered Byron the No. 5 ride at Hendrick Motorsports. 

The 19-year-old Flexibility School understudy didn't waver with his answer. 

"I'm readied," Hendrick related of his driver in the midst of a video talk on Wednesday. 

That is all Hendrick anticipated that would hear before doing what should be finished. 

"It was a one of a kind moment," Hendrick said. "Just to see his face and the enthusiasm there, those are bona fide exceptional minutes when you can break the news." 

Byron's transient climb 

Regardless of the way that he's relied upon veterans to pass on the HMS signal for by far most of the affiliation's 34 seasons in NASCAR, Byron's character, nearby his splendid climb through the Outside World Truck and Xfinity Course of action, sold Hendrick on the juvenile. 

"I've known William since he was 14,15-years old — and I've watched him," Hendrick said. "I think the thing that roused me such an extraordinary sum with William was his ability to win such an assortment of races in the truck plan — transforming into the most energetic individual to win. By then you look at the occupation he's done in Xfinity this year, the most energetic champ at Indy, how he goes to the front so lively, how he snatches on things. He's speedy and that says a great deal for his capacity in the auto. 

"Nevertheless, I think what awed me in all probability more than anything about William, his last year as a senior at Country Day, he won the K&N Plan, he was a regard understudy and was taking school courses and he transformed into a Peddle Scout. When you do all that and fit it into here and surpass desires in each range, that assumes immense liability, drive and affirmation. We've seen he has the capacity, yet his character is exceptional. He's, splendid. He's contributes all his vitality considering or iRacing or in a test framework or in a race auto. His speedy rate of accomplishment has overpowered every one of us." 

In 2015, Byron scored four wins while in transit to the K&N Star Course of action East title. The going with season he posted seven wins, three shafts, 11 top fives and 16 top 10s in his truck show up before an engine dissatisfaction discarded Byron from title question. As another child on the piece in the Xfinity Course of action with JR Motorsports, Byron positions second in the standings with three wins, seven best fives and 14 top 10s in the underlying 20 races. 

Wandering up to the test 

Regardless of the way that NASCAR's Mammoth Essentialness Glass Course of action will emphatically be a bounce from the progression visits, Byron isn't terrified by the test. 

"For me, obviously it will be a test and you should organize that power," Byron said. "I have a great people around me. I have a certifiable a splendid open entryway here at Hendrick Motorsports. As a kid, I grew up looking for. For me, it will be a huge amount of fun. It will be attempting sometimes. In any case, I understand that and I'm set up for that. 

"I just expect dashing those people and picking up from them. I've had a couple of dialogs with Jimmie and assorted people here at HMS and essentially acknowledging what the scene will be at that level and endeavoring to understand it and be set up to go one year from now." 

Byron will have continued with assistance from Flexibility School and Axalta in 2018. Hendrick did not markdown the probability of Byron getting additional seat time in a Compartment auto not long from now. 

Kasey Kahne's future 

Concerning Kasey Kahne's residency with HMS, Hendrick expressed, "We haven't put everything in order," Hendrick said of the results from the No. 5 auto. "I expect full obligation for that. For no good reason, we weren't getting it." 

Exactly when asked whether enrolling Byron while Kahne still had one more year remaining on his understanding, Hendrick replied,"I have a guarantee to Kasey, so I'm paying two drivers one year from now. Additionally, I'm similarly trying to help Kasey in another condition that we could be incorporated with helping another gathering. 

"So thusly, it's less about money. It's about the future and working for the future, getting a fresh start." 

That fresh start could be in the driver's seat of a GMS Dashing ride should the affiliation move to the Holder Course of action one year from now. GMS has had advancing talks as to a specific association together with Hendrick for 2018. 

Hendrick doesn't have all the earmarks of being focused on that the ordinary age of his consistent will drop stunningly next season with the extension of Byron and Alex Bowman, 24, who is expecting control for the No. 88 Chevy for Dale Earnhardt Jr. next season. By then there's Interest Elliott, 21, as of late turned legal a year back. He'll rely upon seven-time Glass champion Jimmie Johnson to reel the young people in. 

"Jimmie Johnson will be a mentor to each of them three," Hendrick said. "Notwithstanding we have Jeff Gordon included, and Dale Earnhardt will be incorporated. He's up 'til now going to be required with the gathering, so we have a significant measure of coaches. Regardless, the essential concern is just not putting exorbitantly weight on them and let them go out and learn." 

For Byron, it will be a dream made sense of it. He went to the HMS grounds as a tyke and looking through the windows. 

"The 5/24 (building), they have the window there, and I would walk around to that, and it's really cool to be on the inverse side of it one year from now," Byron said. "I have a slant that I've put the work into it, and I have an inclination that I'm learning at work, and that has been the best thing for me, to pick up from the best people I can have around me. Essentially reckoning what's to come."