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No. 3 Team

 

CREW CHIEF 

Richard Boswell Headshot
CREW CHIEF
Richard Boswell
DATE OF BIRTH
April 18
HOME TOWN
Friendship, Maryland
MARITAL STATUS
Married
Richard Boswell serves as crew chief of the No. 3 Chevrolet in the NASCAR Cup Series with driver Austin Dillon at Richard Childress Racing. The 2025 season marks the veteran crew chief’s first year at RCR, and his first year being paired with Dillon

Richard Boswell serves as crew chief of the No. 3 Chevrolet in the NASCAR Cup Series with driver Austin Dillon at Richard Childress Racing. The 2025 season marks the veteran crew chief’s first year at RCR, and his first year being paired with Dillon.

Boswell brings to RCR more than 15 years of professional motorsports experience as a crew chief, engineer and driver. He most recently worked as a crew chief in the premier NASCAR Cup Series for Stewart-Haas Racing with driver Chase Briscoe. The duo was paired together from June 2023 through the end of 2024, with Boswell leading Briscoe to one win, four top-five finishes, 13 top-10 finishes and one pole award over the course of one-and-a-half seasons.

Boswell is also an experienced crew chief in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, with 161 starts leading drivers such Briscoe, Riley Herbst, Kevin Harvick, Aric Almirola and Cole Custer to a total of nine wins, 50 top-five finishes, 95 top-10 finishes and four pole awards from 2016-2023.

Boswell simultaneously worked on his college degree and gained experience as a race engineer at JR Motorsports, honing on his skills in race simulation, kinematics, data acquisition, 7-Post testing, and vehicle dynamics and working with drivers such as Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kasey Kahne, Danica Patrick, Jamie McMurray and Regan Smith. He advanced to the NASCAR Cup Series in 2014 where he joined Hendrick Motorsports’ No. 48 team with driver Jimmie Johnson before returning to JR Motorsports in 2015.

A former racer himself, Boswell made one start in the NASCAR Xfinity Series in 2009 at Memphis Motorsports Park, where he qualified third and finished 23rd. He’s an experienced Late Model racer and made 19 starts in the Hooters Pro Cup Series for JR Motorsports, earning three top-five finishes. Boswell won multiple World Karting Association national titles in 1998. Boswell is a second-generation racer and grew up watching his father, Dickie Boswell, race Late Models throughout Maryland. The elder Boswell made 57 NASCAR Xfinity Series starts over the course of six seasons in the 1980s.

Boswell holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Resides in Mooresville, NC. Married to Ashley. Father to three daughters, Elizabeth, Grace and Juliette, and son Warner.

 

 

PIT CREW  

Josh Thomas
Front Tire Changer

- Hometown - Lexington, North Carolina

- Time at RCR - 9th Season

- Favorite Track - Indianapolis

- MISC - Josh got his start by trying out for the pit department after he was playing pickup basketball with Austin Dillon (AD suggested that he should try out) and the rest is history.

Paul Swan
Tire Carrier

- Hometown - Oconomowoc, Wisconsin

- Time at RCR - 12th Season

- Favorite Track - Darlington & Charlotte

- MISC - Paul played football at Bowling Green University for 5 years. He was supposed to be a strength coach, but got connected with some people in the NASCAR industry and heard about RCR.

Nick Covey
Jackman

- Hometown - Glendale, Arizona

- Time at RCR - 5th Season

- Favorite Track - Dover

- MISC - Played football at the University of
Nebraska and studied sociology.

Ethan Tingler
Rear Tire Changer

- Hometown - Stokesdale, North Carolina

- Time at RCR - 10th Season

- Favorite Track - Darlington & Homestead

- MISC - He went to Lenoir Rhyne University in Hickory and played lacrosse there for two years. He got involved in racing because his father in law is a spotter, and he got his in with Ganassi Racing’s developmental program.

Tyler Rader
Fueler

- Hometown - Cross Lanes, West Virginia

- Time at RCR - 10th Season

- Favorite Track - Darlington

- MISC - Rader joined RCR in 2012, but left in 2019 to join the army, spent five years in the 75th Ranger Regiment, then came back to the No. 3 team in 2024.

 

 

ROAD CREW   

Ryan Chism
Car Chief

- Hometown - Bridgeville, Delaware

- Time at RCR - 8th Season

- Favorite Track - Richmond

- MISC - His favorite childhood NASCAR memory is Dale Earnhardt Sr’s 1998 Daytona 500 win.

Joel Keller
Engineer #1

- Hometown - Poquoson, Virginia

- Time at RCR - 10th Season

- Favorite Track - Darlington

- MISC - Studied engineering at UNC-Charlotte.

Will Leslie
ECR Engineer

- Hometown - Exeter, NSW, Australia

- Time at RCR - 4th Season

- Favorite Track - Chicago Street Course

- MISC - Raced on road courses against F1 driver Oscar Piastri as a kid

Matt Beaver
Engine Tuner

- Hometown - Concord, North Carolina

- Time at RCR - 28th Season

- Favorite Track - Martinsville & Homestead

- MISC - Went to Central Piedmont Community College

David Marin
Mechanic #1

Hometown - Lansing, Michigan

Time at RCR - 1st Season

Favorite Track - Michigan

MISC - Loves to play bingo

David Cropps
Mechanic #2

- Hometown - Mount Airy, North Carolina

- Time at RCR - 1st Season

- Favorite Track - Martinsville

- MISC - Grew up watching a lot of drag racing, wasn’t a fan of NASCAR until his brother took him to his first race and then he was hooked.

Michael McCarroll
Interior / Tire Specialist

- Hometown - Schenectady, New York

- Time at RCR - 2nd Season

- Favorite Track - Bristol

- MISC - Studied at the NASCAR Technical Institute / Served just under 10 years in the United State Army as a Cav Scout (been to 7 different countries while serving).

Jeff Craven
Truck Driver #1

- Hometown - High Point, North Carolina
Time at RCR - 19th Season

- Favorite Track - Talladega & Daytona

- MISC - Went to Forsyth Technical

- Community College to study to be a Diesel Mechanic

Brandon Benesch
Spotter

- Hometown - Cumberland, Wisconsin

- Time at RCR - 6th Season

- Favorite Track - Iowa

- MISC - Moved to North Carolina to get his start in the racing industry; was working at a Kohl’s and his manager’s husband was a crew chief, so she helped get him on a team where he worked for free for the first few months.