Tommy Baldwin Jr. leaves function as Rick Ware Racing competitors director

On this week’s episode of the Door Bumper Clear podcast, Tommy Baldwin Jr. revealed that he’s not working with Rick Ware Racing, a single-car staff that fields the No. 51 Cup entry for driver Cody Ware. He served because the competitors director for RWR since April, 2023.

“I am not with Rick Ware Racing,” Baldwin mentioned on the opening of the present. “We determined, Rick and I, that our expectations weren’t aligned anymore. So, we determined, with out ruining our friendship, which we have now a very good friendship, it was determined to go other ways.”

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As for his subsequent steps, Baldwin plans to work extra together with his sons, Jack and Luke, who’re each aspiring racers. Throughout that point, he hopes to “determine what the following choices are, however yeah, I am gonna take just a little break and revel in some stuff.”

There isn’t a information right now relating to a substitute for the function of competitors director at RWR. The group sits final amongst full-time groups within the proprietor standings with a finest end of seventeenth within the 2026 season.

Baldwin has been working in NASCAR for 3 a long time in numerous roles. He has spent 630 Cup races atop the pit field within the function of crew chief since 1997, successful 5 races (4 with Ward Burton from 2000-2002 and one with Kasey Kahne in 2005).

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He additionally owned a NASCAR Cup staff for a number of years, fielding vehicles on the high stage of the game from 2009 by 2020. That staff, which was a part of the unique Constitution Settlement in 2016, by no means reached Victory Lane, however earned a pair of high 5 finishes and 4 high tens in 425 races.

Baldwin’s son Luke made his NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Elements Collection debut earlier this yr, and has additionally made a handful of begins within the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Collection.

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