Tony Eury Jr. will be the crew chief for Swan Racing’s #30 Toyota driven by David Stremme for the 2013 season. The move comes just days after the new team, owned by Brandon Davis, was formally announced. ‘We have a long-term vision for Swan Racing and the addition of Tony Jr. is another step in that process. Tony brings a world of experience to Swan Racing and will be part of our long-term success,’ said Davis. ‘I am really impressed with the team Swan Racing is building and I am proud to be part of it,’ said Eury. ‘I am looking forward to working with David Stremme behind the wheel and with competition director Steve Hmiel.’
‘Tony Jr. has pretty much done it all from tire changer to crew chief. His experience and knowledge will be pivotal to the success of Swan Racing,’ said competition director Steve Hmiel. Driver of the #30 Toyota, David Stremme said, ‘The team has transformed itself virtually overnight. It’s hard to believe just how different this team is in such a short period of time. This is how you build success from the ground up; you hire quality people, put their experience to work and execute on race day. Lets go racing.’ Swan Racing is located in Mooresville, N.C., and will get its horsepower from Triad Racing Technologies.(Swan Racing / Tuckahoe Strategies)(12-10-2012)
UPDATE: Tony Eury Jr. admits that he enjoyed his three-month break from the NASCAR garage. He worked on building a barn and went hunting. He also admits that he was happy to see his former JR Motorsports team a piece of which he still owns win the season-ending Nationwide Series race at Homestead last month. Now it’s time for him to get back to work. Still a 25% owner of JR Motorsports, Eury was released from his position as crew chief for Danica Patrick a couple of weeks after his father, Tony Eury Sr., was released as the team’s competition director in September. The organization, run by Earnhardt’s sister Kelley Earnhardt-Miller, shifted directions, hiring Ryan Pemberton as competition director and committing to use more resources from Hendrick Motorsports Rick Hendrick also is a co-owner of the team than it had with the Eurys. It was time for Eury, who had two Cup wins as a crew chief with Earnhardt at Dale Earnhardt Inc. and Hendrick Motorsports, to move on. ‘We ‘ve texted back and forth,’ Eury said about his relationship with his cousin. ‘There’s no hard feelings. Everything is good with that whole situation. It was just good timing for a change to get away from each other. We ‘ve been racing together for 16 or 17 years. & Both of us are doing what we enjoy and decided what we were going to do when we were youngsters. David is an old-school racer and Steve called me and both of them were asking me to come over here and help them take a small deal and step it up into a big deal,’ Eury said. ‘It’s just a challenge. That’s kind of where I ‘m at in my career right now.’(more at the Sporting News)(12-11-2012)
