For Steve Addington, the move to Phoenix Racing is like shifting over to a different branch of the same family tree. The veteran crew chief will still work with chassis and engines built by Hendrick Motorsports, the same organization that provided equipment to the Stewart-Haas Racing team where he worked the previous two seasons. And Addington knows that whenever his No. 51 car tests, that information is likely to make its way through the Hendrick pipeline back to his old mates at SHR. "For us to be successful is to work things under the Hendrick mentality of, the more information you have, the better off you'll be," Addington said Thursday, when he was named Phoenix Racing competition director and crew chief of the team's No. 51 car.
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