XFINITY SERIES CREW CHIEF SWAP AT ROUSH FENWAY RACING

Xfinity Series Crew Chief Swap At Roush Fenway Racing

Roush Fenway Racing has swapped crew chiefs between two of its X-FINITY Series teams in advance of Saturday’s Nationwide Children’s Hospital 200 in Lexington, Ohio. Seth Barbour is moving from Ryan Reed’s Number-16 Ford to work with Darrell Wallace Junior on the team’s No. 6 entry. Chad Norris is now working with Reed, who won the season-opening race at Daytona International Speedway back in February but hasn’t had a top-10 finish since. Reed is still tenth in the point standings, four spots below Wallace – who is second to Daniel Suarez in the race for Rookie of the Year.

Wallace is winless in twenty starts this season with a best finish of fifth at Charlotte Motor Speedway in May … The driver-crew chief combination of Chris Buescher and Scott Graves remains intact on Roush Fenway’s other X-FINITY Series team. Buescher has two wins this season and has been atop the point standings since mid-May.

Saturday will mark just the third visit to the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course for the X-FINITY Series and Ford has won the first two races – in 2013 with A-J Allmendinger and last year with Buescher, who carries a twenty-four-point championship lead into the second of three road races on the 2015 schedule. Ty Dillon and Chase Elliott are tied for second. They had finishes of nineteenth and fourth, respectively, in last year’s stop at Mid-Ohio.

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