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Elton Sawyer, Red Bull Racing parting ways

Elton Sawyer will part ways with Red Bull Racing, effective Monday.Sawyer, 50, who was hired as the competition director for the start-up company more than four years ago, was told of his fate last Thursday.Sawyer says that on Monday both parties agreed that this would be his last week."Elton did a good job," said team general manager Jay Frye, who took over the competition director role as well in April 2009. "If we were a three-car team, we would probably need that role. But we had a lot of layers and that position became redundant."Sawyer is uncertain of his next career move. He was testing with Red Bull development driver Cole Whitt on Tuesday at Rockingham and will accompany Mattias Ekstrom to Sonoma this weekend as the Swede acquaints himself on the 1.99-mile road course in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West race prior to making his Sprint Cup debut in the No. 83 Red Bull Toyota on Sunday.Sawyer competed in the Busch Series (now the Nationwide Series ) from 1983 until 2002. The Chesa...

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