Co-owner Gene Haas and Tony Stewart issued a joint assertion on Tuesday outlining the “troublesome resolution” that they made to shut SHR at finish of the 2024 season.
Among the many 300 or so workers affected by the announcement had been the group’s six drivers – Chase Briscoe, Josh Berry, Noah Gragson and Ryan Preece within the Cup Sequence and Cole Custer and Riley Herbst within the Xfinity Sequence.
An SHR spokesman mentioned the Xfinity program is anticipated to proceed to function in 2025 in some type, however not as a SHR entity.
The long run for SHR’s Cup drivers stays far more fluid, particularly since groups have but to achieve a brand new constitution settlement with NASCAR that extends past this season. SHR at present holds 4 such charters.
Briscoe, who gained his first Cup race with SHR in 2022, posted a video on his X (previously Twitter) account after being knowledgeable of the group’s resolution.
In it, Briscoe says, “I by no means thought at the present time would come. You realize, I’ve been at Stewart-Haas for the final seven years now. It’s in truth grew to become like house to me and looks like a household. And simply what an unbelievable group of women and men at this place that simply make it really feel like house and simply make you take pleasure in coming to work every day.”
As for his future past this season in NASCAR, Briscoe mentioned he has “no concept what I’m doing.”
“It’s going to be an fascinating time these subsequent couple of weeks simply looking for even what’s out there on the market and hopefully can land on my ft and proceed to race within the Cup sequence,” he mentioned.
“So yeah, I admire all of the all of the help, all of the love and yeah, we’ll see what occurs going ahead.”
SHR entered 2024 with 4 younger drivers and only one Cup win between them. Though they’ve proven slight general enchancment compared to final 12 months, the group continues to be nowhere close to its stage of prior success.
Briscoe is at present the very best driver within the sequence standings at sixteenth, with one top-five and 5 top-10 finishes in 14 races up to now.
Herbst posted an announcement on his X account thanking the SHR group for hiring him “at my lowest.”
“I’ll be endlessly grateful to Tony and Gene for serving to me develop, not solely as a racer however as an individual,” he mentioned.
Veteran crew chief Rodney Childers, who gained the 2014 title with Kevin Harvick and is accountable for almost all of SHR’s race wins, posted the next message on social media:
