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Baldwin started as a Cup crew chief in 1997 for owner Junie Donlavey with Greg Sacks at the wheel. But he would lead the efforts of Dick Trickle for the majority of the year. He would crew chief for Trickle the first 24 races of 1998 before he moved to Bill Davis. Baldwin would be with Burton 1999-2002. Burton and Baldwin won four races together, including the 2001 Southern 500 and the 2002 Daytona 500, until his departure late that season. In 2003, Baldwin became the crew chief of the #7 Sirius Satellite Radio Dodge Intrepid for Ultra Motorsports driven by Jimmy Spencer. After Sirius' departure from the team, Baldwin joined Evernham Motorsports as the crew chief for Kasey Kahne in 2004 and 2005. Kahne won NASCAR Rookie of the Year honors in 2004 with Baldwin, and won his first race with him at Richmond International Raceway the following season. After 2005, he joined Robert Yates Racing to work with Elliott Sadler. Midway through the season, he left to return with Bill Davis Racing. Baldwin announced on January 6, 2009 that he started his own Sprint Cup Series Team named Tommy Baldwin Racing and it will be running Toyotas. Scott Riggs was named to pilot the car for the 2009 season. Baldwin's cars for the Daytona 500 were mainly built and assembled by volunteer crew members who were laid off by other race teams affected by the economic crisis. In May Riggs announced he would be leaving Tommy Baldwin Racing because it had pretty much became a start-and-park race team. 2010 and 2011 saw more of the same as the team was struggling to make ends meet.