Richard Childress Racing has made two senior appointments as it restructures competition leadership and creates a dedicated role for emerging technology ahead of the 2027 NASCAR season.
Richard Boswell has been promoted to Vice President of Competition, while Art Trejo has joined the organisation as Director of Development and Innovation. The second position is newly created.
Boswell moves into a wider competition brief
Boswell will direct RCR's competition programme, with responsibilities spanning performance, the team's collaboration with Chevrolet and the development of its race operations. He will remain crew chief for Austin Dillon's No. 3 Chevrolet through the end of the current season before moving fully into the executive role.
RCR says Boswell has more than 15 years of professional motorsport experience. Before joining the team in 2025, his career included posts at Hendrick Motorsports, JR Motorsports and Stewart-Haas Racing. He helped establish Stewart-Haas Racing's second-tier NASCAR programme and later worked as a Cup Series crew chief.
The appointment turns an existing trackside leader into a senior manager with a remit across the organisation. RCR has not disclosed who will replace Boswell as Dillon's crew chief, the reporting structure beneath the new vice-president role, a contract length or financial terms.
New role focuses on emerging technology
Trejo will lead efforts to identify, develop and implement emerging technologies across RCR. The team says that work will support engineering, manufacturing and competition rather than being confined to a single car or race department.
Trejo joins from SpaceX and previously served for 27 years as an officer in the United States Navy. RCR also lists degrees from Princeton University and UCLA among his qualifications. The company has not identified particular technologies, suppliers, investment levels or delivery dates attached to the new position.
Creating the role is nevertheless a substantive organisational change. It places a named executive in charge of finding and applying technology across a race team that designs, prepares and operates NASCAR machinery. How that brief intersects with Chevrolet, external suppliers and RCR's existing technical departments has not been detailed.
RCR presented both appointments as part of a longer-term effort to improve performance for 2027 and beyond. No ownership change, new facility or separate capital programme was announced. The verified development is the expansion of the team's leadership structure and the defined transition of Boswell after the current season.