No plans for Red Bull Racing to expand

Red Bull Racing general manager Jay Frye says there are no plans as of now for the organization to expand to three NASCAR Sprint Cup teams next season. Red Bull, in its third season in NASCAR's top series, currently fields entries for driver #83-Brian Vickers and rookie #82-Scott Speed. "There's really no goal to have a third team at this point, in my opinion," Frye said on Friday at Bristol Motor Speedway. "We have to get our two teams both competing in the high levels every week before you would think about expanding. We've got one team [Vickers' #83 team] that's competing at a high level every week. Scott, obviously part of his development now, we're getting into phase two of that where we're going to race tracks for a second time, and obviously we need to see an improvement from the first races." Speed has just one top-10 finish, a fifth at Talladega, in 22 starts this season and has failed to qualify three times. Frye hopes Speed's results will improve as he gains more seat time and revisits tracks, such as last weekend at Michigan, where he had only competed once before. As for Red Bull's widely rumored switch from Toyotas to Chevrolets next season, Frye said negotiations are ongoing and didn't rule anything out. "Manufacturer-wise we're working really hard to get that done," he said. "That is the next step in our progression to lock that down for a few years. Again, Toyota has been a great partner, and we are working through a lot of different scenarios with them. I would anticipate everything being shored up at some point in the near future with them." SceneDaily