Jimmy Fennig, the crew chief of Carl Edwards and the #99 Roush Fenway Racing team in the Sprint Cup Series, will be ending his career in that position at the end of the season. Edwards is also leaving Roush to drive the new #19 car at Joe Gibbs Racing starting in 2015, which will leave the #99 team inactive, as the #6 team at Roush will be back in business with Trevor Bayne next year in his first full-time Cup ride.
Fennig's first crew chief role was for Bobby Allison in the late 1980s. He joined the Roush team late in the 1996 season to become the crew chief of the #6 car driven by Mark Martin. In 2002 Fennig went to the #97 car of Kurt Busch, and they won the Nextel Cup championship in 2004, the first year of the Chase championship format. He moved back to the #6 car in 2007 as rookie David Ragan's crew chief, and then went to the #99 car for the 2013 season.
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