RCR Announces Crew Swap

Crew swaps are nothing new to the sport, but the recent announcement from Richard Childress Racing came as quite a shock. The fact that Todd Barrier and Kevin Harvick will no longer be working together is pretty big news.

With Barrier calling the shots Harvick scored victories in three of the sport's biggest events, the Daytona 500, Brickyard 400 and the All-Star Race. The swap tells me that things must be at rock-bottom for RCR to seperate such a successful duo.

For Casey Mears the move is the 5th in four years to a different team/crew.

The teams will swap over every member of the crew, with the exception of the spotters, starting the week after the Talladega race.