Team Penske has made a major NASCAR pit crew change just before the 2026 Chase begins. The team swapped the entire over-the-wall pit crews of Ryan Blaney’s No. 12 Ford and Austin Cindric’s No. 2 Ford ahead of Sunday’s Cook Out Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway.
The move puts Cindric’s faster regular-season pit crew on Blaney’s playoff car. Blaney enters the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs as the No. 2 seed, 25 points behind Denny Hamlin, while Cindric starts 15th, 95 points behind the series leader.
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The change came two days after the NASCAR playoff field was set. Team Penske confirmed the swap through a team spokesperson on Tuesday. Crew...
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