Carl Edwards will trim his Nationwide Series schedule next year to spend more time with crew chief Bob Osborne and their Sprint Cup effort.The 31-year-old driver has 34 career Nationwide wins and won the 2007 title for Roush Fenway Racing. He’s run the full Nationwide and Cup schedules for the past seven years, one of the most taxing schedules in NASCAR history.
“The racer in me wants to run the Truck Series, the Nationwide Series, and the Cup Series every week. (Five-time Cup champion) Jimmie Johnson doesn’t run (many) Nationwide races.”
Edwards hasn’t set his ’12 schedule, but it likely will include only Nationwide companion races at Cup venues. Until he abruptly decided to skip Road America in June, he had run 210 consecutive Nationwide races. He was scheduled to fly from Pocono to Newton, Iowa, on Saturday afternoon for Saturday night’s US Cellular Nationwide 250.
I’ll run Watkins Glen almost certainly; there’s a huge benefit to the Cup Series. Instead of leaving Infineon Raceway on Saturday to run the Nationwide race, he stayed and spent more time with Osborne and their Cup car.
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