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Chris Gabehart, competition director at Joe Gibbs Racing, served as the racing strategist for Ty Gibbs\u2019 team at Atlanta and is expected to continue in that role.<\/p>\n
That started a string of events. Chris Gayle moved from his role as Ty Gibbs\u2019 crew chief to become Hamlin\u2019s crew chief.<\/p>\n
Tyler Allen, who won eight of 33 Xfinity races in 2024 while working with six different drivers, moved up to Cup to be Gibbs\u2019 crew chief this season.<\/p>\n
Gayle has helped Hamlin win three races. Hamlin has 19 playoff points \u2014 the same amount he had at this time last year.<\/p>\n
Gibbs was 11th in points halfway through last year. He is 24th in points this season. Gibbs is the only JGR driver yet to claim a playoff spot this season.<\/p>\n
Gabehart was on Gibbs\u2019 pit box last weekend at Atlanta, serving as the race strategist. He was on the radio with Gibbs and orchestrated strategy with Allen in an effort to help get Gibbs into the playoffs.<\/p>\n
Kaulig Racing<\/b><\/p>\n
Ty Dillon, who ran five races with the team last year, joined Kaulig Racing full-time this season. He took over the ride Daniel Hemric had last year. Hemric was 31st in points at the halfway mark last year. Dillon is 31st. Dillon has scored 34 more points than Hemric had at this time last year.<\/p>\n
Trent Owens, who had been Hemric\u2019s crew chief, was moved to Allmendinger\u2019s team this season with Allmendinger returning to Cup full-time.<\/p>\n
Allmendinger had three top-10 finishes in six starts at this time last year. He has four top-10 finishes in 18 starts this year, including a season-best fourth-place finish in the Coca-Cola 600. <\/p>\n
The last time Allmendinger ran the full series was 2023. He was 19th in points at the halfway mark. He is 17th in points this season.<\/p>\n
Legacy Motor Club<\/b><\/p>\n
The team brought in crew chief Travis Mack from Kaulig Racing to be paired with John Hunter Nemechek.<\/p>\n
Nemechek has scored six top-10 finishes this season \u2014 his most in a Cup season. His passer ranking after the first 13 races was 29th but has improved to 16th in the last five races.<\/p>\n
He was 27th in points last year at the halfway point and is 23rd this year. Nemechek is 10 points from 20th in the points. He is 20 points from 18th in the standings.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Travis and I gelled really well from the very beginning, hold each other accountable when it comes to situations,\u201d Nemechek said. \u201cWe spent quite a bit of time during the offseason communicating, looking at different races, talking about past races, simulation time, kind of just getting to know each other.\u201d<\/p>\n
Richard Childress Racing<\/b><\/p>\n
After spending the past two years as Chase Briscoe\u2019s crew chief at the now-defunct Stewart-Haas Racing, Richard Boswell joined RCR to be Austin Dillon\u2019s crew chief.<\/p>\n
Dillon ranked 32nd in points at this time last year. He is 26th in points this season.<\/p>\n
Dillon\u2019s average finish this year is 20.1 \u2014 up five spots from last year.<\/p>\n
Rick Ware Racing<\/b><\/p>\n
After running select races last year, Cody Ware is running the full schedule for the team. Ware is coming off a season-best 13th-place finish at Atlanta. <\/p>\n
Justin Haley was the team\u2019s full-time driver last year before he moved to Spire Motorsports in a swap with seven races left that brought Corey LaJoie to RWR. LaJoie has run a limited schedule for the team this year.<\/p>\n
RFK Racing<\/b><\/p>\n
The organization expanded to three teams, adding the No. 60 car for Ryan Preece and pairing him with crew chief Derrick Finley.<\/p>\n
Preece is the first driver outside a playoff spot, 23 points below the cutline. He already has a career-high seven top-10 finishes this season, including four in the last seven races.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast year, we put that team together and ran a partial schedule with Derrick Finley and we had a handful of different drivers and matured a lot of that team and a partial schedule, whether it be pit crew as well, and that team has fired off with putting Ryan in as the driver full-time and shown a lot of strength,\u201d team owner Brad Keselowski said last weekend at Atlanta.<\/p>\n
Spire Motorsports <\/b><\/p>\n
This team had a few moves last season. With Stewart-Haas Racing closing, Rodney Childers moved from there to be Justin Haley\u2019s crew chief.<\/p>\n
That partnership lasted nine races before the two sides parted ways and Ryan Sparks, who had served as Haley\u2019s crew chief for the final seven races of last season, returned.<\/p>\n
Michael McDowell and crew chief Travis Peterson left Front Row Motorsports to join Spire. A year ago, McDowell was 22nd in the points. His average finish this year is 19.1. Last year at this time it was 20.9.<\/p>\n
Trackhouse Racing <\/b><\/p>\n
The organization expanded to three teams this year, adding Shane van Gisbergen to the Cup lineup and pairing him with crew chief Stephen Doran.<\/p>\n
While the Cup rookie continues to learn the ovals, van Gisbergen has been strong \u2014 as expected \u2014 on the road courses. He won at Mexico to claim a playoff spot and was sixth at Circuit of the Americas.<\/p>\n
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Shane van Gisbergen won in Mexico in the most recent Cup road course race.<\/p>\n
Wood Brothers Racing<\/b><\/p>\n
Josh Berry joined the team after Stewart-Haas Racing closed last year. He replaced Harrison Burton. Crew chief Miles Stanley joined the team.<\/p>\n
The pairing worked. Berry won at Las Vegas in his fifth race of the season with the team, putting the Wood Brothers back in the playoffs after making it last year through Burton\u2019s victory at Daytona in August.<\/p>\n
Berry has three top-10 finishes, which is one short of his career-best in Cup. He\u2019s led 169 laps, his most in a season. Berry is 19th in points. That\u2019s where he was a year ago. He has 363 points this season \u2014 six more than he had at this time last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than three-fourths of the 15 full-time Cup organizations had either a driver or crew chief change to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-33377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-nascar","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114785314784768908","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}