Front Row Motorsports Insider Reveals the Reason for Ditching RFK Racing for Back-to-Back Champions

The 2023 Cup Series season witnessed the rise of the underdogs. It was not only Brad Keselowski’s RFK Racing that had an upswing in performance but also teams like Front Row Motorsports that proved that these new and smaller teams are here to stay. With Michael McDowell winning the Indianapolis road course race, the team has been rejuvenated with a newfound success. Moreover, to continue the wave, FRM is set to forge new alliances in the garage area for the 2024 season.

After being a close ally of RFK Racing and sharing close-knit cooperation, Front Row Motorsports is ready to take another step further in the future. Consequently, the team announced a new technical alliance with Team Penske, who seized consecutive championships after moving away from Brad Keselowski’s team. Speaking on the forging of the new alliance, FRM’s crew chief, Travis Peterson, unraveled the team’s expectations and reason for joining hands with Team Penske in his interview with Sirius XM.

RFK Racing is set to lose an ally as it chooses Team Penske over them

What sets teams like Hendrick Motorsports and Team Penske apart from smaller teams is the abundance of resources, whether it is in terms of monetary or technical abilities. However, to maintain parity in the NASCAR paddock, these smaller teams often align themselves with the sharks of the garage area through technical alliances. One such technical alliance is that between Team Penske and FRM, beginning in the 2024 season.

Speaking on the sudden switch in alliance, crew chief Travis Peterson expressed, “With some of the new people and a couple of more new engineers as well as, we are shifting to a technical alliance with Penske this year so, we are going to the simulator with Ford.”

“But rather than working on setups and stuff like that, it’s kind of getting everyone up to speed and go through some dry runs of what practice scenarios look like, so it is almost a team practice to get new personnel and can get communication, get backflowing things like that than it is really developing the setup at this point. Just because of what we have going on, but you certainly have time to do that, those days never shut off during the off-season. The smaller teams like us have to do those things to survive, just because we don’t have the big engineering department.”

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“So a lot of reasons called for a technical alliance, getting the support for usually simulation tools or processes to measure parts, and we have kind of always done that RFK for a long time and now we are switching over Penske so I can’t necessarily speak to all, because we are in the middle of the new ones, but the gist is that you don’t have 20 engineers at shop providing information at our place, so you kinda go, be aligned with a team that does have and use their information,” Peterson concluded.

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While RFK Racing is set to lose a close ally in the Cup Series arena, it does not bar the team from focusing on building a more efficient team and expanding it. While a majority of Cup Series teams hope to wash their feet in the secondary series of NASCAR, Brad Keselowski has other plans for his team.

Keselowski stated in an interview with Autoweek that he envisions expanding into the IMSA series rather than the Xfinity Series or the Truck Series. Moreover, it is imminent that the co-owner of RFK Racing is eyeing the development of a third Cup Series team. Due to this, the #60 Ford part of the #60 Project would be piloted by David Ragan in the upcoming Daytona 500 race.

Keselowski stated, “There’s no reason for NASCAR to compete with its own product of IMSA,” Keselowski says. “You look at their (IMSA) car counts at some of these races and their interest, it’s through the roof. I think it’s good to have those as two separate products and ecosystems.”

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Having said that, both Front Row Motorsports and RFK Racing are set to have an interesting path in front of them in the upcoming season. However, what is to be seen is how the team performs after a favorable season and a whirlwind of changes.