{"id":240624,"date":"2026-04-27T14:42:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/richard-childress-racing-makes-crew-chief-change-amid-kyle-buschs-career-worst-start\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T14:42:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:42:50","slug":"richard-childress-racing-makes-crew-chief-change-amid-kyle-buschs-career-worst-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/richard-childress-racing-makes-crew-chief-change-amid-kyle-buschs-career-worst-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Childress Racing makes crew chief change amid Kyle Busch&#8217;s career-worst start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nascar\/players\/kyle_busch\/25380\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kyle Busch<\/a> is in the midst of the worst start of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nascar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASCAR<\/a> Cup Series career, and Richard Childress Racing is already making personnel changes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, RCR announced that crew chief Jim Pohlman, who was -paired with Busch at the start of 2026, will be replaced by Andy Street atop the No. 8 pit box for the final 26 races of the 2026 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;This move is about putting our people in the best position to succeed,&#8221; said Richard Childress, Chairman and CEO of RCR, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcrracing.com\/news\/2026\/april\/27\/richard-childress-racing-names-andy-street-crew-chief-for-no-8-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">team news release<\/a>. &#8220;We have strong talent across this organization, and we\u2019re focused on having each person in the right position to help deliver the results we expect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Busch is 27th in the Cup Series standings through the first 10 races of the 2026 campaign with a career-worst average finish of 22.1, though he did earn his first top-10 of the season at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nascar\/articles\/richard_childress_racing_makes_crew_chief_change_amid_kyle_buschs_career_worst_start\/s1_13132_43778330\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Busch is in the midst of the worst start of his NASCAR Cup Series career, and Richard Childress Racing is already making personnel changes.\u00a0 On Monday, RCR announced that crew chief Jim Pohlman, who was -paired with Busch at the start of 2026, will be replaced by Andy Street atop the No. 8 pit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-240624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}