Stephen Leicht will join Jeff Burton as the co-driver of Richard Childress Racing’s #29 Holiday Inn Chevy team for the 2009 Nationwide Series season. Leicht, 21, has run a part-time Nationwide Series schedule for RCR this year after earning his first career series victory and finishing seventh in the point standings during his rookie season in 2007. The Asheville, N.C., native has earned two top-10 finishes in just four starts this season driving RCR’s #21 Chevy, including a seventh-place showing in April at Phoenix International Raceway in Avondale, Ariz.(RCR PR)(8-28-2008)
