Lat week, Randall Burnett introduced that he would exit Richard Childress Racing (RCR) on the conclusion of the 2026 season, the place he has labored as a crew chief for the reason that 2020 season. He’ll transfer over to Trackhouse Racing with Connor Zilisch for the 19-year-old’s rookie season on the prime degree of the game.
Nevertheless, he won’t finish the yr with Kyle Busch and the No. 8 crew. Beginning with this weekend’s race on the Charlotte Motor Speedway ROVAL, Andy Road will function Busch’s new crew chief for the rest of the 2025 season. The crew didn’t point out that that is the plan for 2026, as nicely.
As for Burnett, RCR states that he “will proceed contributing in a assist function with the group via the top of the season.”
Road has been with Childress for a number of years, and has labored as a crew chief in 167 NASCAR Xfinity Sequence races. He received eleven races atop the pit field, and led Austin Hill to the Championship 4 final yr. He additionally helped Myatt Snider to his one and solely win as a NXS driver.
This yr, he obtained his first likelihood to work as a crew chief as a Cup degree with RCR, dealing with the part-time No. 33 entry in seven races (4 for Hill and three for Jesse Love). The crew’s finest end result got here on the Chicago Road Course, the place Hill completed ninth.
The group additionally promised that bulletins concerning future competitors roles will likely be shared at a later date.
Busch at present sits twenty second within the championship standings (the worst of his profession), and has completed sixteenth or worse in 9 of the final ten races. He is additionally going through a winless streak that dates again to Gateway in June of 2023.
