Richard Boswell

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.