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New Car Chief for Edwards:

  • from the 2009 NASCAR Preseason Thunder Daytona Fan Fest: Saturday news conference transcripts:
    Q. It’s hard to imagine your team being much stronger than it was at the end of last year, but you said you’ve added a couple people.
    CARL EDWARDS: Right. Yeah, one person in particular sorry, go ahead and finish. Pierre Kuettel is going to be the car chief on the 99. Jason Myers was the car chief. He’s, I think, a really good example of guys really rallying for the team. Pierre came out and we won a championship in the Nationwide series together, and then Drew became my crew chief, P.K. looked at his options and said, hey, I’d like to be the car chief. When it was offered to him, he said, hey, I’ll do that, I’ll be the car chief on the Cup car again. We had so much success with P.K. on that team in 2005, I think having him come back and do this job is going to be a huge addition. At the same time we didn’t lose Jason Myers. He’s going to stay there, and I think for two guys to do that and make moves in a sport that from the outside would appear like downward moves so that we can go achieve a championship in the Cup Series, I’m so proud of those guys, so I’m so excited about it. I feel like we’re right back where we were in 2005 except we gained a championship level crew chief to car chief on my Cup car, and that’s cool.(NASCAR PR)(1-18-2009)