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Kyle Busch, Dave Rogers Look Like New Force To Be Reckoned With
Kyle Busch (No. 18 Pedigree Toyota), has been one of NASCAR’s most electrifying competitors this season posting four wins, nine top fives and 12 top 10s, but when the No. 18 team failed to make the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, owner/team management decided to make a change to the team.
Steve Addington had been the crew chief for Busch for the last two years, but this past Sunday at Texas, Dave Rogers became the new crew chief.
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Rogers and Busch have worked together in the NASCAR Nationwide Series and were familiar with each other, but this past weekend was the first time the pair worked together in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Busch and the No. 18 team dominated most of the day at Texas, leading 232 laps of the scheduled 334 laps, but ran out of gas a few laps short of the finish, placing 11th.
Rogers joined Joe Gibbs Racing in July of 1998 and in 1999 he joined Tony Stewart and Greg Zipadelli on the No. 20 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team. He worked side-by-side with Zipadelli from ’99 until 2005, when he became the crew chief of JGR’s third NASCAR Nationwide Series team, the No. 11. He moved to the No. 20 NASCAR Nationwide Series team in 2008.
Busch heads to Phoenix this weekend with quite the resume, having posted one win, one top five, six top 10s and a pole in nine starts at the famed one-mile raceway.
PaddockTalk Perspective
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