Smith officially named:

Jay Smith has been named the crew chief of the #34 Goulds Pumps Chevy driven by Mike McLaughlin in the BGN. Steve ‘Big Guy’ Helwig and John Birosh handled the duties for the 2nd half of the 1998 season. Birosh left the team a while back and Helwig goes back to his old job of Car Chief(NASCAR Online)(12-11-98)