Carl Edwards leaving Roush Fenway Racing at season's end

Carl Edwards, a two-time winner so far this year in the Sprint Cup Series, will no longer be driving for Roush Fenway Racing in 2015, it was announced Sunday, prior to the Brickyard 400. Edwards and teammate Greg Biffle had been rumored to be leaving Roush since last season, but now Biffle will remain with Roush next year. Edwards will not announce until at least September who he will be driving for in 2015, but he has been rumored to be headed to Joe Gibbs Racing.

Edwards has driven for Roush throughout his entire Busch/Nationwide and Cup careers. He made his Cup debut at Michigan in August 2004, replacing Jeff Burton in the #99 car. Edwards won four races in his first full-time Cup season in 2005, including a sweep of Atlanta. Edwards also won the 2007 Busch Series title with Roush, and finished the 2011 Cup season in a tie with Tony Stewart, however Stewart won the title because he had won more races than Edwards that season. Edwards and Biffle have been Roush's best drivers over the past several years, with Matt Kenseth, who drove for Roush until 2012, also being a dominant driver during much of the same period.

Roush's 2015 Cup lineup will consist of Biffle driving the #16 car for a 13th full season, along with Ricky Stenhouse Jr. in the #17 car previously driven by Kenseth, and Trevor Bayne driving the reactivated #6 car in his first full-time Cup season, after driving part-time for the Wood Brothers since late 2010. This will make the #99 team inactive, like the #6 team was in the Cup series last year and this year.