TC Daily Pit Stop: Allmendinger Returning to Full-Time Cup Racing in 2025; Aaron Kramer Named Haas Factory Team Crew Chief; Griffin to Spot for Austin Dillon at Michigan
TC Daily Pit Stop: Friday, August 16, 2024
AJ Allmendinger Returns to Full-Time Cup Racing in 2025 with Kaulig
Kaulig Racing shored up part of its 2025 NASCAR Cup Series driver lineup on Thursday afternoon as the race team announced the return of AJ Allmendinger as the full-time driver of on of the team’s Chevrolet Camaro ZL1s.
Allmendinger, who has been competing in a full-time manner in the NASCAR Xfinity Series for Kaulig Racing this season, last ran full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series for Kaulig Racing during the 2023 season.
In 10 NASCAR Cup Series starts this season with Kaulig Racing, Allmendinger has recorded three top-10 finishes. The 42-year-old racer has scored three wins in the NASCAR Cup Series over his 440 career starts, two of which have come with Kaulig Racing since the 2021 season.
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Aaron Kramer Hired as Cole Custer, Haas Factory Team Crew Chief for 2025
Haas Factory Team has set in stone an integral part of its personnel lineup for the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series campaign.
Aaron Kramer, who currently serves as the lead race engineer for Chris Buescher and the No. 17 RFK Racing team, is set to join the brand-new organization for the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series campaign, serving as the crew chief for Cole Custer and the No. 41 Ford Mustang Dark Horse.
A of Wellsville, New York, has been with RFK Racing since 2016, rising from an electrical and data systems engineer who oversaw the team’s 8-post advanced track simulator rig, to lead race engineer on RFK’s No. 60 NASCAR Xfinity Series team in 2018.
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Brett Griffin to Spot for Austin Dillon in Place of Benesch at Michigan
While Richard Childress Racing will appeal the loss of Playoff eligibility attached to Austin Dillon’s Cook Out 400 race win at Richmond Raceway last Sunday, the team will not ask for a deferral of the three-race suspension of spotter Brandon Benesch heading into the appeal. As a result, Benesch will not serve as Dillon’s spotter this weekend at Michigan International Speedway.
In Benesch’s place will be Brett Griffin, a veteran spotter, who also serves as a co-host of Dirty Mo Media’s Door Bumper Clear Podcast.
Benesch was handed a three-race suspension for his involvement in the finish of Sunday’s race at Richmond. After Dillon spun Joey Logano from the lead in Turn 3, Benesch cued the radio and began shouting, “Down low, wreck him,” just before Dillon turned low and crashed Denny Hamlin to secure his fifth career NASCAR Cup Series win.
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