Kyle Busch to get new crew chief at Charlotte Roval
WELCOME, N.C. — Kyle Busch will get a new crew chief for the final five races of the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season.
Richard Childress Racing tabbed Andy Street to serve as Busch’s crew chief, starting with the Oct. 5 race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval road course.
RCR made the decision after Trackhouse Racing announced now-outgoing crew chief Randall Burnett would work with Connor Zilisch in 2026.
New crew chief Andy Street has made seven Cup starts as a crew chief, all this year with RCR’s No. 33 team. Street has seen most of his success with driver Austin Hill, who he led to ninth-place finish in the July Cup race at the Chicago Street Course and to 10 NASCAR Xfinity Series wins from 2022 to 2024.
Burnett will remain with RCR in “a support role” through the end of the 2025 season.
Burnett and Busch started off strong in 2023, earning three wins in the first 15 races and making the playoffs. Busch earned more wins and top-five finishes and a better average finish in his first year with RCR than his final season with Joe Gibbs Racing – and the No. 8 team kept up their wins total and improved their average finish and top-10 count.
2023 made the move seem like a net positive – but 2024 and 2025 haven’t been the same.
Each season has seen the team start strong before missing the playoffs and going winless.
On top of it, things became noticeably worse right before the crew chief change.
In practice and qualifying, the No. 8 car has been among the slowest in the field. In fact, Busch qualified 28th and 32nd at Richmond and Bristol – tracks where he is the active Cup wins leader – and at times could only outrun two other cars in races like Kansas where they nearly won the year before.
The Kansas run even prompted spotter Derek Kneeland to say he’d “jump off the spotter stand” if they finished there. They finished 19th.
RCR will share details on future competition roles “at a later date.”
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Jonathan Fjeld is the co-owner of the The Racing Experts, LLC. He has been with TRE since 2010.
A Twin Valley, MN, native, Fjeld became a motorsports fan at just three years old (first race was the 2002 Pennsylvania 500). He worked as a contributor and writer for TRE from 2010-18. Since then, he has stepped up and covered 24 NASCAR race weekends and taken on a larger role with TRE. He became the co-owner and managing editor in 2023 and has guided the site to massive growth in that time.
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