#78-Furniture Row Racings technical relationship with Richard Childress Racing is more than just having use of the #07 owner points for the first five races of the 2010 season. Furniture Row now is getting cars built by RCR and also has access to RCR data. The technical alliance is similar to the Stewart-Haas relationship with Hendrick Motorsports, but Furniture Row still has a contract through the end of this year to lease engines from Hendrick. ‘A lot of the initial part of working together is literally learning how to work together and how were going to do that,’Â Furniture Row general manager Joe Garone said. ‘Thats what were going through right now.’Â In the past, Furniture Row has gotten chassis from Laughlin Racing Products/Ortec Racing and still has a contract with the company for a few more cars. Garone said that the move to RCR will allow Furniture Row to have a little more control over the chassis as well as the access to RCRs information. ‘For us, as a single-car team, some of the tools that it takes with simulation programs and chassis measurement and having control of your tolerances for your modeling simulation is very difficult when youre not building your own chassis,’Â Garone said. ‘Being on their chassis gets us on the same page, and it also gives them another person thats on their chassis that is sharing information back to them through all the different facets of testing and simulation.’Â The team will continue to use its own pit crew. The Furniture Row pit crew is the same pit crew that does Kevin Harvick Inc.s Nationwide Series car.(SceneDaily)(3-4-2010)
