Yates announce team reshuffle

RYR have announced that their crew chiefs for Elliott Sadler and Dale Jarrett's cars, Tommy Baldwin and Slugger Labbe, respectively, will no longer be with the team, effective immediately.

Neither Sadler or Jarrett have won a race so far this year, and are languishing 20th and 25th in the points' standings. By contrast, at the same point last year, both drivers were in the provisional Chase positions.

It means that come the end of the season all key personnel in the team will have been switched, with both drivers having already announced they are quitting the team for pastures new next season.

Jarrett has signed for Michael Waltrip Racing, and Sadler is expected to join Evernham Motorsports.

RYR have signed veteran crew chief Butch Hylton to work on Jarrett's car and former Busch series crew chief Cully Barraclough will work on Sadler's Ford Fusion. Both have joined the team in an 'interim' capacity, beginning with this weekend's Allstate 400 at the Brickyard.

Hylton worked as crew chief on the team development driver Stephen Leicht's Nextel Cup car in Pocono last month, and Leicht is tipped to join the team fulltime next year.

Barraclough has worked with Busch series David Gilliland this year at Clay Andrew Racing, including at his unexpected win at Kentucky.

RYR are believed to have been in discussions with Gilliland about a possible Nextel Cup drive in the future, and he will drive an RYR Busch series car in Indianapolis this weekend.