Reed Sorenson will leave Chip Ganassi Racing after this season to drive for Gillett Evernham Motorsports next year, the team announced Tuesday.
Sorenson, 22, is in his third full season with Chip Ganassi Racing. He has never finished better than 22nd in the points and is 31st heading into this weekend’s race at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif.
Co-owner Felix Sabates said last weekend that losing Sorenson didn’t bother him.
“I think Reed is today as good as he’s ever going to be,” Sabates said. “If somebody else wants to put him in a car, fine with us.”
Sorenson responded to those comments, saying: “I plan on winning some races and going for championships here soon than later.”
“I wanted to be more competitive and I wanted to have some more opportunities to win races and things like that.”
“It seems like this year it has been (the) worst year out of the three, so I guess you could say that probably factored in on things like that,” said Sorenson, who plans to finish out the season with Ganassi.
Sorenson has 97 Sprint Cup starts with five top-five finishes, but just one this year. He’s still searching for his first Sprint Cup win and has been unable to duplicate his Nationwide success, where he’s won three times and has 20 top-five finishes in 95 career starts.
“I felt like I’ve done everything I can with the situation I’m in now,” he said. “Like I said, it just seems like this last year, it got a little bit worse as far as not being able to find some speed at some of these places.”
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