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SHAKE-UP Robert Yates Racing releases D'Hondt
After losing his star driver to Toyota, watching his other driver endure sub-par years Robert Yates has decided it’s time for a shakeup at the top.
Robert Yates Racing (RYR) announced Tuesday that general manager Eddie D'Hondt has been released from his position.
"We are re-evaluating the way we do business from the top down," Yates said. "This is a performance-based business and we have to evaluate the performance of where our cars are now. That begins with understanding our cars."
RYR has been one of NASCAR's most successful teams over the last 17-plus seasons, winning a Nextel Cup championship with Dale Jarrett in 1999 and putting at least one driver in the top 10 in the points standings 10 times.
But RYR has had only two drivers finish in the top 10 over the last four seasons, and Yates feels that his entire organization needs an adjustment.
"Our goal is to figure out a technical direction and find the right people to lead that direction," Yates said. "This isn't a quick fix and its is going to be a process for us. This decision is a first step in the evaluation process."
Jarrett and Elliott Sadler, RYR's two Nextel Cup drivers, have struggled this season. Jarrett currently is 12th in the standings with 1,237 points while Sadler is 15th with 1,181 points. The pair has combined to register just one top-five finish and four top-10s through 11 points races this season.
Doug Yates also said the decision to make a change at the management level is a result of the Yates family reasserting themselves as the managers of their family-owned business. One of the first actions the team is taking is moving Raymond Fox, III back to the Nextel Cup shop where he will work with the #38 M&M’S Team and serve as a liaison between the Busch and Nextel Cup Series teams.
“Raymond is very key to our organization,” Yates said. “The Busch program is important to us but we need his help elsewhere in the company and right now that is at the Cup shop where he’s worked since we started this organization.”
“Eddie (D’Hondt) did a good job for us,” he said. “But this is our company and Robert and I have decided we need to get our arms around our company. We’re not happy with where we’re at as a race team. We need to reassert key people including ourselves.”
After losing his star driver to Toyota, watching his other driver endure sub-par years Robert Yates has decided it’s time for a shakeup at the top.
Robert Yates Racing (RYR) announced Tuesday that general manager Eddie D'Hondt has been released from his position.
"We are re-evaluating the way we do business from the top down," Yates said. "This is a performance-based business and we have to evaluate the performance of where our cars are now. That begins with understanding our cars."
RYR has been one of NASCAR's most successful teams over the last 17-plus seasons, winning a Nextel Cup championship with Dale Jarrett in 1999 and putting at least one driver in the top 10 in the points standings 10 times.
But RYR has had only two drivers finish in the top 10 over the last four seasons, and Yates feels that his entire organization needs an adjustment.
"Our goal is to figure out a technical direction and find the right people to lead that direction," Yates said. "This isn't a quick fix and its is going to be a process for us. This decision is a first step in the evaluation process."
Jarrett and Elliott Sadler, RYR's two Nextel Cup drivers, have struggled this season. Jarrett currently is 12th in the standings with 1,237 points while Sadler is 15th with 1,181 points. The pair has combined to register just one top-five finish and four top-10s through 11 points races this season.
Doug Yates also said the decision to make a change at the management level is a result of the Yates family reasserting themselves as the managers of their family-owned business. One of the first actions the team is taking is moving Raymond Fox, III back to the Nextel Cup shop where he will work with the #38 M&M’S Team and serve as a liaison between the Busch and Nextel Cup Series teams.
“Raymond is very key to our organization,” Yates said. “The Busch program is important to us but we need his help elsewhere in the company and right now that is at the Cup shop where he’s worked since we started this organization.”
“Eddie (D’Hondt) did a good job for us,” he said. “But this is our company and Robert and I have decided we need to get our arms around our company. We’re not happy with where we’re at as a race team. We need to reassert key people including ourselves.”
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