Edwards, Osborne Show That Driver/Crew Chief Pairs Don’t Last Forever

A day after Bob Osborne stepped down as Carl Edwards’ crew chief, the consensus is that, while Osborne said the move was due to his own health concerns, it was a move that should have happened before now (via Sporting News). Not many other people are asking the question that should precede that consensus:How did this happen? How did the performance of one of NASCAR’s best driver-crew chief relationships get so bad that this change was needed? In no other form of competition is there as strong of a coach-player-type bond as in racing between a crew chief and his driver. Edwards and Osborne have worked well together for almost 10 years now, something that’s almost unheard of nowadays in NASCAR, where it seems the crew chief ...

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