Rodden has spent 139 Cup races atop the pit field, working with William Byron, Kasey Kahne, and Jamie McMurray.
He and Kahne gained the 2017 Brickyard 400 collectively. In more moderen years, he has labored on the Motorsports Competitors NASCAR technique group at Common Motors.
“The addition of Keith Rodden to the Richard Childress Racing group highlights the ‘One Workforce’ strategy to our race program and the dedication that our producer accomplice has made to elevating all the Chevy NASCAR groups with a shared strategy to information gathering and technical improvement,” mentioned Andy Petree, vice chairman of competitors for Richard Childress Racing.
“I’ve recognized and labored with Keith Rodden for the reason that starting of his NASCAR profession, and I can confidently say that he will probably be an amazing match for Austin Dillon and our group at Richard Childress Racing. We’d prefer to thank Justin Alexander for his contributions to the No. 3 group and know that he’ll do an amazing job persevering with to assist RCR in his new function.”
He replaces Justin Alexander, who has been named the director of auto efficiency for RCR. Alexander led Dillon in all 4 of his NASCAR Cup Sequence victories, together with the 2018 Daytona 500.
