Parker leaves Roush for Yates UPDATE: #97 Car Chief Shawn Parker has left Roush Racing and will assume the Car Chief duties for the #38 M&M’s Ford of Yates Racing and Elliott Sadler.(11-20-2002) UPDATE: Elliott Sadler became acquainted with his new Robert Yates Racing NASCAR Winston Cup Team during a two-day test at Kentucky Speedway. The 27-year-old Sadler began preparing to become the new teammate of 1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Champion Dale Jarrett. Sadler enters the team seat vacated by veteran driver Ricky Rudd and will drive for new sponsor M&M’s Candies. After just two days on the job, he’s already impressed with the team chemistry. “It’s unbelievable how well this team works together, how focused they are and how good they want to be. I’m just glad to be a part of this team. I’m glad Robert and Doug have given me this chance. I’m working very well with Raymond so far, so I think things will be very bright for us this (upcoming) year,” Sadler said. Sadler added that he’s excited about building a promising future with Fox and Parker. “Raymond has worked with this team for a long time, I think it’s the only place he’s ever worked. He’s due for his chance to become a crew chief. He’s doing a great job. We’re both pretty young and we brought Shawn Parker over to be the car chief. We have a lot of good young guys on this race team that are eager to win and wanting to do what it takes to run good each and every week. Hopefully we’ll be together a long time and have some good success,” Sadler concluded. (Kentucky Speedway PR), been told that Yate’s will try something a little different and have co-crew chief with Fox and Parker.(11-21-2002)
