Rudy Fugle
Fugle, a native of Livonia, New York, graduated from UNC Charlotte in 2007 with a degree in mechanical engineering.After his impressive rookie season, Byron would move up to the Xfinity Series in 2017 driving for JR Motorsports.Gragson would move up to the Xfinity Series driving for JR Motorsports full-time in 2019 like Byron did after his year with Fugle.Although he did make the playoffs, Eckes would only finish eighth in the final standings and not win any races and was released at the end of the season in favor of Chandler Smith.In 2023, Byron and Fugle won two of the three races of the West Coast swing at Las Vegas and Phoenix.However, after the race at Phoenix, each of the Hendrick cars would receive an L2 penalty (a four-race crew chief suspension and the loss of 100 driver and owner points) after NASCAR discovered illegally modified hood louvers on the cars during practice for the race.[11] Brian Campe, a technical director for Hendrick, would fill in for Fugle for four races as the interim crew chief for Byron's No.