In 2010, Richard Childress announced that Kerry Earnhardt will drive the # 3 car originally driven by his father when he won the Brickyard 400 at a festival.

After originally denying the rumors, it finally happened in mid-2004 when, just before the Sirius at The Glen, Burton signed a three-year contract with Richard Childress Racing ( RCR ), leaving Roush after eight and a half years with the team.

For 2001, Childress planned to run Harvick in the # 2 Chevy in the Busch Series full-time again, while developing him into the Winston Cup Series ( now Sprint Cup Series ) with up to seven races in the # 30 AOL Chevy.

Later that season Green began driving for Richard Childress Racing part-time in the # 30 America Online Chevrolet in Winston Cup ( oddly enough as a replacement for Harvick, who was supposed to drive this car before the death of Dale Earnhardt caused him to be promoted to Childress ' Winston Cup team much earlier than planned ).

Falk ran Tony Raines at Texas and planned to use a number of other drivers, including Childress ' grandson Austin Dillon and the Sadler brothers.

A common misconception is that Richard Childress Racing " owns the rights " to the No. 3 in NASCAR competition ( fueled by the fact that Kevin Harvick's car has a little No. 3 as an homage to Earnhardt and the usage of the No. 3 on the Camping World Series truck of Ty Dillon ), but in fact no team owns the rights to this or any other number: However, according to established NASCAR procedures, RCR would have priority over other teams if and when the time came to reuse the number.

A year later he attended an academy in Murfreesboro, where he may have met his future wife, Sarah Childress.

With the economics of the sport dictating higher expenses, some sponsors have decided to share sponsor space with other sponsors, leading to two " regular " designs which alternate, such as Richard Childress Racing, where all three teams have multiple alternating primary sponsors.

The contract was equal to and worth the same as a 3 year $ 32. 5 million NBA contract, not including that Childress would also have his local taxes and agent fees paid for by Olympiacos as well.

In 2003, Childress decided to try to win the Busch Series ' owner's championship with the # 21, which would have been a first in the history of the series.

He slipped to 12th in the standings halfway through the season, and Richard Childress decided to make a crew chief change, taking Mike Skinner's crew chief Kevin Hamlin and putting him with Earnhardt while giving Skinner Larry McReynolds.

Childress ' second-year Busch Series driver Kevin Harvick was named as Earnhardt's replacement driver, beginning with the race following Earnhardt's death held at the North Carolina Speedway.

In the Busch Series, Harvick would be scheduled to run all 35 races, with three different cars (# 21, # 33, # 29 ) and two different teams, Richard Childress Racing and his own team, Kevin Harvick Incorporated.

In 2004, Clint began by finishing 8th in the ARCA Remax series race at Daytona in the # 7 Advanced Chevrolet for Gerhart. In 2004 Bowyer began running the NASCAR Busch Series for Childress, sharing seat time in the # 21 Reese's Chevrolet with Kevin Harvick.

He also was a test driver for Richard Childress Racing, filling in for Kevin Harvick in the # 21 United States Coast Guard Chevy during practice and qualifying sessions.

However, Peters left the team in early September and joined Richard Childress Racing, where he was to share their # 21 Autozone Chevy with Kevin Harvick in the Busch Series in 2007, before he was released after making six starts.

As a co-promotion in the event, team owner Kevin Harvick drove the # 29 Powerade / McDonald's Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing.

The truck in 2007 was used for most of the season, running a Part-Time Schedule with a variety of drivers, from KHI developmental driver, Cale Gale to Richard Childress Racing Nextel Cup drivers, Kevin Harvick and Clint Bowyer in the # 2.

Deciding to carry on, Childress changed the number of the car to 29, inverted the original paint scheme, and chose his Busch Series driver Kevin Harvick to drive the car.

After weeks of speculation as to where Kevin would drive starting in 2007, he and RCR announced a new three-year deal, with Kevin driving for Childress until 2009.

In 2012, the # 2 will return to RCR after Kevin Harvick sold his team to Childress in late 2011.

In 2000, Harvick would sign with Richard Childress Racing to drive the # 2 AC Delco Chevrolet for his first full Busch Series season.

This allowed Harvick, along with teammate, Jeff Burton, their First berth, and First for Richard Childress Racing, in the Chase for the Sprint Cup.

After Mears struggled during the first seven races of the year, Richard Childress switched the crew chiefs for Harvick and Mears ' cars, hoping for a better performance from the two drivers.

After an incident with teammate Harvick at Richmond, Richard Childress Racing fired Green on May 5.

In 2004, Childress promoted Johnny Sauter to the ride, hoping he would work like Harvick.

However, after struggling for most of the season, Childress reunited Harvick with Martin.

Childress ' gamble paid off, as the # 21 won the series owner's championship behind three wins from Harvick.

In the off season following the 2007 season, Labonte agreed to a 15 race contract to drive the # 21 chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing in the NASCAR Nationwide Series for 2008.

On May 28, 2010, Riggs signed with Richard Childress Racing to drive the # 21 Zaxby's Chevrolet Impala for the Federated Auto Parts 300 at Nashville Superspeedway and for the Meijer 300 at Kentucky Speedway, while sharing duties with Clint Bowyer for the remainder of the season.

Skinner was selected by Richard Childress Racing to drive the # 3 GM Goodwrench Chevrolet S-10 for the first NASCAR SuperTruck Series season.

Blaney returned to Richard Childress Racing in 2005 to drive the # 07 Jack Daniel's Chevrolet.

Paul Menard is to drive the fourth entry for Richard Childress Racing in 2011.

In 2001, following Sauter's ASA Championship, Richard Childress Racing invited him to drive the # 21 Rockwell Automation Chevrolet in five Busch Series races.

Childress hired Sauter to drive the # 30 AOL Chevrolet in Winston Cup full-time in 2004.

This move was necessitated by a sponsor's request, as General Mills did not want Mears, who had been driving in the 2008 season for a rival cereal with Hendrick Motorsports, representing them, so Childress sponsors General Mills and Brown-Forman Corporation ( parent company to Jack Daniel's ) agreed to the swap so Bowyer, who drove for Brown-Forman, would drive for General Mills, and Mears could drive for Brown-Forman, as they had no problems with Mears representing the company.

In 2003, Hornaday signed to drive the # 2 ACDelco Chevy for Richard Childress Racing.

On 29 April 2010, at the time of Earnhardt's induction to the NASCAR Hall of Fame, DEI announced a partnership with JR Motorsports, Richard Childress Racing, and Wrangler Jeans where, for one race, as a tribute to his father, Dale Earnhardt Jr. would drive the # 3, the blue and gold race car driven by Dale Earnhardt in the 1980s.

Green competed in eight races, won one pole, and finished in the top ten once, and after the season he left the Busch Series to drive for Childress full-time.

Two days later, he was picked up by DEI to drive the # 1 Pennzoil Chevrolet, replacing Steve Park, who was hired by Childress to drive the # 30 that Green left.

In the remaining events, David Reutimann will drive, with Richard Childress Racing technical support.

In 2004, it was announced that Kerry Earnhardt would drive a # 33 Richard Childress Racing Bass Pro Shops Chevrolet in 5 NASCAR Nextel Cup events in 2004.