Wallace, Allmendinger in for Carpentier in No. 10

Patrick Carpentier is out of the No. 10 Gillett Evernham Motorsports Dodge, effective immediately, the organization announced Tuesday.

Mike Wallace will take Carpentier's place for Saturday night's Bank of America 500 at Lowe's Motor Speedway. A.J. Allmendinger, who parted ways with Red Bull Racing after the Sept. 28 Sprint Cup event at Kansas Speedway, will take the wheel of the No. 10 Dodge for the final five races of the season.

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"I'm excited about this news," Allmendinger said. "GEM has great equipment and I'm confident we can take these final five races and get the No. 10 up in points. I know we have a lot of work to do, but we are going to give it our best shot. I'm looking forward to spending some time with crew chief Mike Shiplett and the guys starting at Martinsville."

Allmendinger already had agreed to drive the No. 00 Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota at Lowe's this weekend (read more). Reed Sorenson, currently a lame duck at Chip Ganassi Racing, will drive the No. 10 for GEM next season.

Carpentier, who competed in 24 Cup races this season and generally distinguished himself in time trials (including a pole run at New Hampshire in June), got into a widely reported public shouting match with crew chief Mike Shiplett after Carpentier failed to qualify Saturday for the Amp Energy 500 Cup race at Talladega Superspeedway.

"We certainly appreciate all the effort that Patrick Carpentier made for us this year," Mark McArdle, GEM's vice president and managing director of competition, said in a statement released Tuesday. "But our job is to put ourselves in a position to win races, plus we're striving to get the No. 10 into the top 35 in [owner] points. We feel A.J. gives us the best chance to do both."

The No. 10 is currently 338 points out of 35th place in the owner standings.

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