Richard Childress Racing is changing its leadership structure after a season that left the team out of the Chase. RCR announced Wednesday that crew chief Richard Boswell will become vice president of competition and that Art Trejo will fill a newly created role as director of development and innovation.
Both moves take effect for 2027. Boswell will finish this season on top of Austin Dillon’s pit box before moving into the new job. Team owner Richard Childress did not dress up the reason for the changes.
“Everyone at Richard Childress Racing remains relentless in our desire to win and compete at the highest levels of our sport but we know we’re not quite where we need to be. We’re announcing these changes now because we want to make sure we have the right people, the right leadership and the right technology in place to compete at the level RCR expects to compete at.”
“Richard Boswell is a talented leader who knows racing, knows how to lead people, and knows what it takes to win. I know he will do a great job taking on a larger role in leading our competition team.”
Boswell brings more than 15 years of professional motorsports experience to the role. He is the son of former late model and Busch Series driver Dickie Boswell and raced himself before moving to the strategy side. He worked at Hendrick Motorsports and JR Motorsports, then helped launch Stewart-Haas Racing’s O’Reilly Auto Parts Series program.
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He reached the NASCAR Cup Series as Chase Briscoe’s crew chief in 2024 and took over Dillon’s No. 3 Chevrolet in 2025. Dillon’s most recent win came that year at Richmond Raceway with Boswell calling the race.
Boswell’s promotion is an internal move. Trejo’s arrival is not. Trejo is a 27-year-old Navy officer with degrees from Princeton University and UCLA, and he joins RCR from SpaceX. His job will be to identify, develop and apply emerging technology across the organization.
“Art Trejo brings a completely different set of experiences and a new way of thinking that I believe can help take our racing operations forward. We’re going to keep pushing, keep investing and keep looking for ways to get better.”
The changes leave one open question for next season. Dillon, a six-time Cup winner, needs a new crew chief in 2027, and RCR has not said who that will be.
A Difficult Year at RCR
The restructuring closes a season the team would rather forget. Neither Dillon nor teammate Austin Hill made the Chase, and RCR has been without its biggest name since May, when Kyle Busch died at 41 after an illness.
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RCR retired the No. 8 that Busch drove and has run the No. 33 since, with Hill moving up from the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series to take the seat. The team said the No. 8 is being held for Busch’s son, Brexton.
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