 In 2003, his driving career behind him, Owens worked with a young Clint Bowyer as he made his ARCA debut at Nashville Superspeedway, helping him pull off an eye-opening 2nd-place finish with Richard Childress in attendance.Starting in 2006, Owens worked for Braun Racing, later Turner Motorsports and then Turner Scott Motorsports as a crew chief in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, scoring wins with Mark Martin, Dave Blaney, Reed Sorenson, James Buescher, and Nelson Piquet, Jr., and assisting Kyle Larson in winning the 2013 series Rookie of the Year title.On December 2, 2013, it was announced that Owens would be moving up to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, having been hired by Richard Petty Motorsports to crew chief the team's No.