Team Penske announced today that one of its most accomplished engineers will take on a new challenge beginning in 2016, as Brian Wilson has been named crew chief of the #22 Ford Mustang in the NASCAR XFINITY Series. Wilson will assume the crew chief role while Greg Erwin, who guided the #22 team to its third-consecutive NXS Owners’ Championship this past season, will return as team manager of Team Penske’s NXS program. The #22 team has earned an amazing 25 wins with four different drivers (Joey Logano, Brad Keselowski, Ryan Blaney and AJ Allmendinger) over the course of the last three seasons. The #22 Mustang is the first car to capture three-consecutive NXS Owners’ Championships. Wilson joined Team Penske in 2004 and has served as race engineer on both the #22 NXS team as well as the #2 Miller Lite Ford Fusion NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team over the last several years. A native of Detroit, Mich., Wilson played a key role on Team Penske’s first two NASCAR championships. He was race engineer on the #22 team that captured the 2010 NXS title with driver Brad Keselowski and he served in the same capacity in 2012 when Keselowski and the #2 team captured the Sprint Cup Series title.(Team Penske)
