Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jeff Gordon Part of Hendrick Crew Chief Swap

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Hendrick Motorsports may have won its fifth-straight championship just last Sunday, but it only took a matter of days for the organization to make some of its biggest changes in years.

"This will improve us as an organization, across the board," team owner Rick Hendrick (right) said Tuesday.

Save for champion Jimmie Johnson, each of the three other drivers in the Hendrick stable will have new crew chiefs for the 2011 season.

Steve Letarte, the crew chief on Jeff Gordon's No. 24 since the end of the 2005 season, will now oversee Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s No. 88 team. Meanwhile, Gordon will now have Alan Gustafson managing his team in Daytona.

Gustafson leaves the No. 5 team and driver Mark Martin, who will now have Lance McGrew in his ear for the 2011 season. McGrew has spent part of 2009 and all of 2010 as Earnhardt Jr.'s crew chief.

Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jeff Gordon Part of Hendrick Crew Chief Swap

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Jeff Gordon, Jeff Burton in Shoving Match After Texas Crash

In a rare outburst of anger, four-time NASCAR Cup champion Jeff Gordon got out of his wrecked race car, crossed the Texas Motor Speedway track and walked up to the other driver involved in the accident, Jeff Burton, and shoved the fellow veteran before NASCAR officials could separate the two drivers.

The accident happened just as a caution flag flew on lap 192 of the 334-lap Sprint Cup Series race for a one-car incident involving Martin Truex Jr. elsewhere on track. Gordon and Burton had been racing hard for 18th place prior to the yellow flag and Gordon pulled his No. 24 DuPont Chevrolet alongside Burton's Chevy as the field slowed to show his displeasure with Burton.

Burton said he was just trying to pull back up alongside Gordon and motion an apology and then -- as he saw it -- the two cars just became entangled.

"I honestly don't know what happened, but it's 100 percent my fault,'' Burton said. "I pulled up to let him know he was right and I don't blame him for being mad.''

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That mea culpa wasn't good enough for Gordon, who was still peeved when interviewed next to his team transporter moments later.

"I was walking toward him and thankfully had a long walk because I did the least amount of what I wanted to do to him,'' Gordon said. "I was real upset and let's just say, I held back. I didn't want to be in an ambulance with him, I can tell you that.

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Jeff Gordon, Jeff Burton Have Shoving Match After Crash in Texas

In a rare outburst of anger, four-time NASCAR Cup champion Jeff Gordon got out of his wrecked race car, crossed the Texas Motor Speedway track and walked up to the other driver involved in the accident, Jeff Burton, and shoved the fellow veteran before NASCAR officials could separate the two drivers.

The accident happened just as a caution flag flew on lap 192 of the 334-lap Sprint Cup Series race for a one-car incident involving Martin Truex Jr. elsewhere on track. Gordon and Burton had been racing hard for 18th place prior to the yellow flag and Gordon pulled his No. 24 DuPont Chevrolet alongside Burton's Chevy as the field slowed to show his displeasure with Burton.

Burton said he was just trying to pull back up alongside Gordon and motion an apology and then -- as he saw it -- the two cars just became entangled.

"I honestly don't know what happened, but it's 100 percent my fault,'' Burton said. "I pulled up to let him know he was right and I don't blame him for being mad.''

That mea culpa wasn't good enough for Gordon, who was still peeved when interviewed next to his team transporter moments later.

"I was walking toward him and thankfully had a long walk because I did the least amount of what I wanted to do to him,'' Gordon said. "I was real upset and let's just say, I held back. I didn't want to be in an ambulance with him, I can tell you that.

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Report: Jeff Gordon's New Sponsorship Deal to Be Announced Wednesday

The AARP Foundation and Jeff Gordon will team up in 2011, with the charity arm of the retired persons organization becoming the primary sponsor on Gordon's No. 24 Chevrolet for most of the NASCAR Sprint Cup races to promote a major anti-hunger campaign, the Charlotte Observer reported Monday.

The paper reported that the campaign will be coordinated by the foundation and will eventually involve other companies.

The new deal, however, doesn't mean that fans will no longer see Gordon's longtime primary sponsors, Dupont and Pepsi, on his No. 24 Chevrolet. Those two powerhouse companies are expected to sponsor the races that AARP Foundation doesn't cover, the Observer said.

More details of the sponsorship are expected to be announced at a Wednesday news conference.

Dupont is one of NASCAR's longest-running and most dedicated sponsors.

If Dupont steps away completely from some of the 2011 races, it will be the first time since the company began sponsoring Gordon beginning with his very first race at Atlanta at the end of 1992.