Roush Fenway Racing announced Tuesday it will drop to a two-car team in NASCAR's Cup series in 2017. Trevor Bayne will drive the team's No. 6 Ford and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. will drive the team's No. 17.
The team also announced it will lease the No. 16 car _ driven by Greg Biffle until he announced last week that he was leaving the team _ to JTG Racing, where it will be driven by Chris Buescher.
In addition, Roush Fenway announced Kevin Kidd will be the team's competition director and Tommy Wheeler will serve as the team's operations director.
Matt Puccia will continue to be Bayne's crew chief, while Brian Pattie will switch from Biffle's car to Stenhouse. Nick Sandler, who was Stenhouse's crew chief the past two seasons, has named RFR's director of engineering.
None of the team's three drivers won a race during the 2016 season. Buescher won at Pocono for Front Row Racing and qualified for the Chase.
"We have been able to shore up our plans for 2017 and we feel that this will continue to move us in a direction that will yield improved performance and results," Roush Fenway co-owner Jack Roush said in a statement. "We saw improvement in our cars and made substantial gains in our performance at times last season, and we will continue to build on that by maintaining a robust engineering group in order to take the next step by consistently running up front."
