Another crew switch has been ordered at Stewart-Haas Racing. This time, it will be between the #10 Chevrolet of Danica Patrick and the #41 Chevrolet of Kurt Busch, and will become effective at Texas on November 2. While Patrick's former crew chief Tony Gibson will be Busch's crew chief starting at Texas, Busch's former crew chief Daniel Knost will just be an interim for Patrick for at least the last three races of 2014. Patrick is coming off a run at Talladega in which she ran up front late in the race, while Busch was one of the first four Chase drivers to get eliminated following Dover, with his brother Kyle having since joined him.
Previously, SHR's other two drivers, Kevin Harvick (#4) and team co-owner Tony Stewart (#14), swapped their pit crews on September 9, just before the Chase for the Sprint Cup started at Chicagoland. They kept their respective crew chiefs, Rodney Childers and Chad Johnston, both newcomers at SHR this year like Harvick and Busch. Since then, Harvick has gone on to advance to the second round of the Chase on points, then to the third round with a win at Charlotte on October 11. Stewart missed the Chase for the second straight year due to skipping some races in August.
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