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Hendrick engineer to become Ross Chastain’s new ...

There will likely be a change atop the pit field for the No. 1 Trackhouse Racing Team Chevrolet subsequent season. Brandon McSwain, who has labored as an engineer for the No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports staff for the previous six years, will change Phil Surgen.

Chastain has labored with Surgen for the reason that 2021 season when he nonetheless drove for Chip Ganassi Racing, and has gained all six of his Cup races with the identical crew chief. The duo almost gained the 2022 Cup Collection championship, and most lately earned a crown jewel victory within the 2025 Coca-Cola 600. 

They made the playoffs in three of the final 4 years, and ended the 2025 season tenth in the final championship standings.

Surgen will transition to a brand new position inside the group, per Trackhouse.

McSwain has restricted crew chief expertise, filling in for Rudy Fugle at HMS on a number of events. The No. 24 Chevrolet of Byron has made all of it the best way to the Championship 4 within the final three consecutive years.

This continues a pattern at Trackhouse as they proceed to make inside modifications, together with crew member swaps and a brand new president of racing operations. The group has struggled general this 12 months compared to earlier seasons, excluding the dominance of Shane van Gisbergen on highway and avenue programs.

McSwain was additionally part of JR Motorsports earlier than becoming a member of Hendrick, and was a member of the 2017 and 2018 championship-winning staff with Byron after which Tyler Reddick.

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