Randall Burnett is the crew chief of the No. 8 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 for Richard Childress Racing with driver Kyle Busch. 2023 marks the pair’s first year working together, and Burnett’s seventh year with RCR.

From 2022 through 2020, Burnett led RCR’s No. 8 team and driver Tyler Reddick, guiding the young driver through his first year in the NASCAR Cup Series and building the team into a unit that consistently ran up front. During their breakout year in 2022, Burnett led Reddick to three race wins (Texas Motor Speedway – September, Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course, and Road America), three pole awards and 10 top-five finishes. Together, Burnett and Reddick qualified for the NASCAR Playoffs twice (2022 and 2021). All told, the Burnett-Reddick duo earned three wins, 16 top-five and 40 top-10 finishes during their three years together in the NASCAR Cup Series.

Burnett was also paramount to Reddick’s NASCAR Xfinity Series success at RCR. The pair won the NASCAR Xfinity Series championship together in 2019, collecting six wins in the process. The team was also incredibly consistent, racking up 24 top-five finishes in 33 races (average finish was 6.3 despite failing to finish three races).

In 2018, Burnett guided Matt Tifft to the NASCAR Xfinity Series Playoffs and a sixth-place finish in the final point standings at RCR. During his first year at Richard Childress Racing in 2017, Burnett worked with a variety of drivers as a crew chief in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, including Tifft, Austin Dillon, Paul Menard, and Ben Kennedy.

In 2016, Burnett got his first opportunity as a crew chief in the NASCAR Cup Series when he joined JTG Daugherty Racing and driver A.J. Allmendinger. He led the team to two top-five finishes and nine top-10 finishes, highlighted by a second-place finish at Martinsville Speedway.

Burnett started his NASCAR career with Chip Ganassi Racing. He spent 10 years with the Ganassi organization, serving as a data acquisition engineer, lead race engineer, 7-post analysis engineer and lead team engineer. In 2014, Burnett worked closely with Kyle Larson during his rookie season, assisting the team in securing eight top-five and 17 top-10 finishes. He played a key role in the team’s victories in the 2010 DAYTONA 500 and Brickyard 400.

A native of Fenton, Mo., Burnett built and raced his own late models near his hometown and later moved south to attend the University of North Carolina Charlotte, where he earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering.