Jack Roush

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Jack Roush (born April 19, 1942 in Covington , Kentucky ) is the founder, chief executive officer and, together with John W. Henry, co- owner of the NASCAR racing team Roush Fenway Racing , which is headquartered in Concord , North Carolina . He is also chairman of Roush Enterprises , the parent company of Roush Fenway Racing, Roush Industries and Roush Performance . His trademark is a Panama hat , without which he almost never shows himself in public.

Life

Jack Roush was born in Covington , Kentucky and raised in Manchester , Ohio . He successfully completed a bachelor's degree in physics and mathematics at Berea College . He earned his second degree , Masters , in Mathematics from Eastern Michigan University . Roush then worked at Ford from 1966 to 1970 . In 1970 he left Ford to work at Chrysler . In the following years, Roush participated in some drag race in the NHRA , IHRA and AHRA part.

During his career as a driver, he put up for sale auto parts that he developed for his own team. In 1982 he signed a contract with Zakspeed , which from then on supported him. In the years that followed, his company worked with the German company on the development of racing cars for the Ford brand, to which Roush had returned. The development work has produced some good results in the Trans-Am series and the IMSA .

In 1988 Roush founded the NASCAR Winston Cup team Roush Racing , which has been operating under the name Roush Fenway Racing since 2007 . Over the years, Roush expanded his involvement in NASCAR, including racing cars in the Nationwide Series and Craftsman Truck Series . After initial success in NASCAR, Roush founded the company Roush Performance , which modified various Ford models. On April 27, 2006, Roush was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame .

Among other things, Roush is a pilot and owns several aircraft, including two North American P-51s and a North American T-6 , which he has placed in a special hangar at Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti, Michigan .

Accidents

On his 60th birthday, on April 19, 2002, Roush had the opportunity to fly the two-seat, twin-engine, microlight Lett R / Campbell K. AIRCAM ( aircraft registration number: N912S). The aircraft took off from Troy Municipal Airport ( ICAO code : KTOI) struck a high-voltage line near Troy, Alabama and crashed into a lake (coordinates: 31 ° 49 ′ 41 ″  N , 86 ° 0 ′ 16.4 ″  W ). It was rescued from the sunken wreck by Larry Hicks, a former US Marine who happened to be present . Hicks performed a successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation and suffered first degree burns in the rescue . Roush was taken to the UAB Medical Center in Birmingham, Alabama , with serious injuries and was able to resume business after six weeks.

Roush survived his second plane crash on July 27, 2010 in his Hawker Beechcraft 390 Premier (aircraft registration number: N6JR), which he piloted, on the approach to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh at Wittman Regional Airport , in Oshkosh in the US state of Wisconsin (coordinates: 43 ° 59 ′ 14.6 "  N , 88 ° 33 '14.1"  W ). Shortly before landing, Roush broke off the approach because of an aircraft cutting its flight path. In doing so, he failed to set the engine performance to the maximum required by the manufacturer in the manual for a go-around . The insufficient acceleration and the low speed ultimately led to a stall at low altitude. As a result, the aircraft's nose and right wing first touched the ground, the tail of the aircraft buckled. Roush and his passenger survived with serious but not life-threatening injuries. Both were able to leave the wreck independently and were admitted to the Theda Clark Medical Center in Neenah with facial injuries . Roush was transferred to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota , where he operated on and was released on August 10, 2010. During a public appearance at Michigan International Speedway in the following days, he confirmed to the press that he sustained back injuries and a broken jaw in the accident, and that Roush also lost his left eye in the accident.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brenda Warneka The simple touch of fate iUniverse, Inc., (2003); ISBN 0-595-30283-1
  2. ↑ Nascar.com: One week later: Roush discusses plane crash (English)
  3. ^ Investigation report of the US Aircraft Accident Investigation Board NTSB: Investigation report MIA02LA086
  4. ↑ aviation-safety.net: final report
  5. ↑ Motorsport-Total.com: Jack Roush injured in plane crash
  6. ↑ nascar.com: Roush returns to track bearing scars from crash

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personal data
SURNAME Roush, Jack
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American NASCAR team owner
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Covington