With Sunday’s Ford 400 being the curtain call on the 2010 Sprint Cup
Series season, a handful of drivers will be making their final starts
for their respective current teams—Elliott Sadler, Marcos Ambrose, and
Paul Menard to name a few. Bobby Labonte has made starts for a few
different teams this season, but Sunday’s race will be his final start
before heading over to JTG-Daugherty Racing to replace Ambmrose in the
No. 47 car. Also, Scott Speed will probably making his final start in a
Red Bull entry this weekend. While Red Bull Racing is dragging its feet
on a formal announcement, unnamed sources say he’s gone. Speed’s
contract with the team runs through 2011, but there’s a stipulation that
he could be released sooner for performance issues, should Speed fail
to finish out the year outside the top-16 in points. That’s pretty much a
given at this point, and it’s almost a given that Red Bull Racing will
take advantage of said stipulation.
With Speed’s place of employment for 2011 unknown and Labonte’s move
aside, most of the offseason driver migration directly affects Richard
Childress Racing. Current until after Sunday drivers, Elliott Sadler and
Paul Menard, will pack their bags to head to new teams—Sadler to Kevin
Harvick Inc. to pilot a Nationwide Series car and Menard to the greener
pastures of Richard Childress Racing to climb behind the wheel of a
fourth Sprint Cup Series entry. Their departures, along with Kahne’s
controversial departure from the team awhile back, leaves A.J.
Allmendinger as the sole driver returning to the RPM stable. Ambrose
will move there after this weekend to keep him company, though, leaving
JTG-Daugherty to replace Kahne in RPM’s No. 9 car.
With the departure of three of its four drivers this season and the
arrival of a new one, Richard Petty Motorsports could have a totally
different look heading into the 2011 season, based on personnel changes
alone, not even taking into consideration the other whirlwinds of change
and uncertainty that surround the organization.
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