Stewart-Haas Racing driver Kevin Harvick will have two new members going over the wall this weekend when the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series travels to Richmond for Saturday night's Federated Auto Parts 400 (7:30 p.m. ET, NBCSN, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
Eric Maycroft will be the team's new front tire changer and Matt Holzbaur the new front tire carrier for the No. 4 team. They previously worked on the No. 10 team of Danica Patrick.
Maycroft replaces front tire changer Tim Sheets while Holzbaur replaces front tire carrier Todd Drakulich, both of whom will move to the No. 10 team.
SHR made the moves after Harvick criticized the team's pit work following Sunday's Bojangles' Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway.
"I'm over being a cheerleader," Harvick said after his second-place finish. "Those guys get paid a lot of money to perform on pit road. Cheerleading hasn't been working so you have to get after them on pit road and do your job."
Harvick led 214 of the race's 367 laps but lost positions on pit road on several occasions, leaving the 2014 series champion to make up the lost ground on the race track.
He was out front when the caution flag appeared for contact between AJ Allmendinger and Ryan Blaney on Lap 279 but restarted the race in 12th when an air gun failure led to a lengthy pit stop.
"Y'all obviously don't want to (expletive) win or something," Harvick told his team on the radio after the incident.
Informed an equipment issue was the culprit, Harvick replied "Heard that for three years."
Told to "do the best" he could to make up the lost track position, Harvick responded: "Been doing that all (expletive) night."
Harvick, a winner this season at Phoenix and Bristol, has already clinched one of the 16 Chase spots.
Crew chief Rodney Childers told NASCAR.com after the Darlington race that his crew "had great stops all night and we had one stop that was just a little bit off and when you have one that's a little bit off it's kind of like a mental breakdown."
"The guys have to forget about that one and move on," he added.
Saturday's race is the final regular-season event for Sprint Cup Series teams. The 10-race Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup gets underway next weekend at Chicagoland Speedway.