DOVER, Del. -- Greg Biffle has a new face atop his pit box this weekend as Roush Fenway Racing NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team manager Kevin Kidd is temporaily serving as crew chief the No. 16 team at Dover International Speedway. Biffle's standard crew chief Matt Puccia and his wife Alyssa welcomed baby girl Kennedy Harper Puccia on Friday.
Upon hearing the news that his wife was in labor on Thursday evening, Puccia drove from Dover, Delaware -- where he was staying ahead of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series AAA 400 on Sunday (2:30 p.m. ET, NBCSN, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) -- to Mooresville, North Carolina for the delivery.
Kidd will call the race for Biffle, although it was initially uncertain if Puccia would make the trip back to Dover.
"It will probably be a Sunday morning game-time decision and I'm leaving it completely in Matt's hands," Kidd said on Saturday at the track. "If he wants to come up and do the race tomorrow, then we'll certainly welcome him. As a company, we'd love to have him back, but we also want to be respectful and do the right thing as an employer and give him some time to be with his family right now."
Puccia has served as crew chief for Greg Biffle since 2011, and has been a part of three wins for the No. 16 team. Biffle is 20th in the point standings and is coming off his third top-five finish of the season, a fourth-place result at New Hampshire Motor Speedway last weekend.
Biffle was 17th in opening practice on Saturday at Dover.
Kidd came to Roush Fenway from Joe Gibbs Racing after last season. In his role as team manager, Kidd supervises at-track operations for the team. Prior to joining Roush, Kidd was a crew chief in the XFINITY Series for JGR since 2010 with four wins atop the pit box.
He filled in as a crew chief for one Sprint Cup Series race with Elliott Sadler and Gillett Evernham Motorsports in 2008.