Roush Fenway Racing
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| owner |
Jack Roush John W. Henry Fenway Sports Group |
| Racing series |
Sprint Cup Nationwide Series Craftsman Truck Series ARCA |
| Championships | 2 Sprint Cup 1 Nationwide Series 1 Craftsman Truck Series |
| Start number (s) | # 6, # 16, # 17, # 99 (Sprint Cup) # 6, # 16, # 17, # 60, # 98 (Nationwide) |
| driver |
David Ragan (# 6 - Sprint) Greg Biffle (# 16 - Sprint) Matt Kenseth (# 17 - Sprint & Nationwide) Carl Edwards (# 99 - Sprint, # 60 - Nationwide) Colin Braun (# 16 - Nationwide) Ricky Stenhouse Jr. . (# 6 - Nationwide) Paul Menard (# 98 - Nationwide) |
| Manufacturer | ford |
| Place of the workshop | Concord , North Carolina |
| Homepage | www.roushfenway.com |
Roush Fenway Racing , until 2007 Roush Racing , is a motorsport team that competes in the NASCAR Sprint Cup and the NASCAR Nationwide Series . Until the 2009 season, the team also took part in races in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series . The team was founded in 1988 by Jack Roush as a small, independent branch of the Livonia , Michigan- based, successful automotive technology company and accessory manufacturer for road racing equipment . NASCAR operations, controlled out of Concord , North Carolina , have since become a major cornerstone and core of the company. It won the championship in the Cup series for two consecutive seasons in 2003 and 2004 with Matt Kenseth and Kurt Busch as drivers. Carl Edwards ' victory in the Dodge Dealers 400 at Dover International Speedway in the 2007 season marked the team's 100th win in NASCAR's Cup series. Roush Fenway Racing has only used Ford models since it was founded .
NASCAR Sprint Cup
overview
Roush Fenway Racing is one of the largest racing teams in the Sprint Cup and starts with four full-time teams. The commitment is designed entirely for the use of four cars. This aspect allows the exchange of information and resources within the entire company and is intended to improve the performance of all individual teams. Since the 2004 season, the engines have been from Roush-Yates Engines, a partnership between Roush Fenway Racing and Yates Racing .
Car # 06
The start number 06 tried to qualify for eleven races in the 2006 season in order to prepare the drivers in the driver development program for their future in the Cup series. Todd Kluever was originally the sole driver but was replaced by David Ragan for five of the eleven races . The debut of the car took place on July 9, 2006 at the Chicagoland Speedway with Kluever as driver and 3M as sponsor. Kluever also drove the races at Michigan International Speedway , Kansas Speedway and Lowe's Motor Speedway , failed to qualify at California Speedway , Phoenix International Raceway and Homestead-Miami Speedway . David Ragan drove the car at Dover International Speedway in September 2006 and Martinsville Speedway , but missed race two of the season at Texas Motor Speedway .
Car # 6
The number 6 car was the original car that Roush Racing debuted in NASCAR. The debut took place on the Daytona 500 of the 1988 season with Stroh's Light as sponsor and Mark Martin as driver. Due to an engine failure on lap 19, he finished the race in 41st place. Over the course of the season, his performance improved and Martin took one pole position and ten top 10 results. With the experience of the first year, the team with Martin at the wheel achieved six pole positions, 18 top 10 results and their first victory in the AC Delco 500 at North Carolina Speedway in the 1989 season . Thanks to these achievements, the team finished the season in third place in the championship.
With Folgers as a new sponsor in the 1990 season, Martin won three races as well as pole positions and finished in the top 10 with the exception of six races. Martin led the championship for much of the season, but could not use the opportunity and lost at the end of the season with 26 points to Dale Earnhardt . Subsequently, the penalty in the form of a 46 point deduction due to a rule violation in the second race of the season turned out to be decisive for the outcome of the season. In the 1991 season the team could not build on the good performance of the previous year and Martin was only sixth in the championship. His only win of the season he scored in the season finale at Atlanta Motor Speedway .
In 1992 Valvoline came on as a new sponsor, but there was no improvement in the championship. Only with five wins in the 1993 season did Martin improve the situation and he finished the season in third place. In the 1994 season, Martin had to admit defeat in the championship again Dale Earnhardt and was again championship runner-up. In 1995 Martin beat his former teammate Wally Dallenbach jr. in Watkins Glen and won his highest cash prize of his career to date of $ 1,893,519 . A setback followed in the following season when Martin did not win a single race. The 1997 season went better when Martin won four times and was third in the championship. Martin delivered the best season to date in 1998. Martin won seven races, but this performance was not enough for the championship when he had to admit defeat to Jeff Gordon . Despite only two wins in the 1999 season, Martin finished 26 of the 34 races in the top 10.
After just one win in 2000, main sponsor Valvoline left the team and switched to MB2 Motorsports . Pfizer / Viagra became the new main sponsor . Additionally, Martin served as a mentor and co-owner of rookie Matt Kenseth's car throughout the season . He didn't win a race himself and was only twelfth in the championship, the worst result since 1988. It was not until the 2002 season that Martin won another race and was narrowly beaten in the championship by Tony Stewart . In the following season, the performance decreased again. Martin did not win a single race again and finished 17th in the championship. Thanks to better results with a win at Dover International Speedway , Martin improved to fourth place at the end of the season. Before the start of the 2005 season, Martin announced that this season would be his last full season. On his “Salute to You” farewell tour, Martin scored another victory, 19 top 10 results and fourth place in the championship. After Roush suddenly lacked a driver for the 2006 season due to contractual issues, Martin got into starting number 6 for another full season with AAA as a new sponsor. After Martin's departure, Todd Kluever was supposed to take over the car in the 2007 season. Due to his poor results in the Busch Series , Roush Fenway Racing decided to put David Ragan behind the wheel of the number 6 as the new driver. His first season as a full-time driver remained without any major highlights, in his second full-time year Ragan just barely missed a place in the Chase for the Sprint Cup . In the 2009 season he could not build on the successes of the previous year.
Car # 16
The number 16 car was the second car to be used by Roush Fenway Racing in the Cup series. He made his debut on the 1992 Daytona 500 with Keystone as a sponsor. Wally Dallenbach Jr. took 15th place in the first race. In the course of the season he achieved only a top 10 result and was 24th in the championship. The 1993 season went a little better for Dallenbach jr. and he got four top 10 results. From the 1994 season, Ted Musgrave became the car's new driver and The Family Channel's new sponsor. The results improved suddenly. Musgrave achieved three pole positions and finished the season 13th in the championship. At the end of the 1995 season, he improved six places to seventh place. Still, Musgrave failed to win a race. Around halfway through the 1998 season, Musgrave was fired and replaced by Kevin Lepage , who was behind Kenny Irwin Jr. came second in the Rookie of the Year ranking .
With TV Guide, Lepage achieved fifth place at the beginning of the 1999 season at Darlington Raceway and pole position at the season finale at Atlanta Motor Speedway . TV Guide did not renew the sponsorship contract, so that the start number 16 drove without a sponsor at the beginning of the 2000 season before a multi-year contract with FamilyClick was signed. During the season, Lepage missed two races and dropped to 38th place in the championship. Since FamilyClick was not satisfied with the team's performance, it withdrew as a sponsor and the team did not compete in the 2001 season. It returned to the Cup series in the 2002 season and served to prepare Craftsman Truck Series champion Greg Biffle for his mission. Biffle completed a total of seven races this season. In 2003, Biffle completed his rookie year in the Cup with WW Grainger as a sponsor. He started 35 of 36 races, won the Pepsi 400 and finished second in the rookie standings behind Jamie McMurray . The following season, the National Guard became the new main sponsor and Biffle won two races. In 2005, 3M and its Post-It brand joined as a second sponsor and replaced Subway . The season was the team's most successful to date with six wins and second place in the championship. In the 2006 season, however, it slipped to 13th place. After the National Guard switched to sponsoring Hendrick Motorsports' number 25 for the 2007 season, Ameriquest joined 3M and Aflac as the new main sponsor. In 2008 and 2009, Biffle qualified for the Chase for the Sprint Cup.
Car # 17
The number 17 car made its debut for selected races in the 1999 season with Matt Kenseth as driver and DeWalt as main sponsor. The first race he was used in was the Pepsi 400 at Michigan International Speedway , where Kenseth finished 14th. A month later he replaced Bill Elliott and finished fourth.
In 2000, the team started a full season for the first time. Kenseth won the Coca-Cola 600 and beat the favorite Dale Earnhardt junior in the race for the title of Rookie of the Year. In 2001, Kenseth remained without a win and was 13th in the championship with nine top 10 results. The 2002 season brought visible improvements with five wins and an eighth place at the end of the season.
With just one win at Las Vegas Motor Speedway , Kenseth won the 2003 season championship by 90 points. It was the first title for Roush Fenway Racing. In the 2004 season he won twice and made it into the Chase for the Nextel Cup , where he finished eighth. After a bad start to the 2005 season, Kenseth made it back into the Chase with a win at Bristol Motor Speedway . With four wins in 2006, he finished second in the championship behind Jimmie Johnson . Kenseth also drove the number 17 in the following years and made it into the Chase for the Sprint Cup in 2007 and 2008. In the 2009 season, Kenseth finished 14th overall. At the end of the year, long-time sponsor DeWalt left the team. Crown Royal has been the main sponsor of start number 17 since the beginning of the 2010 season.
Car # 26
The car with starting number 26 made its debut at the autumn race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in the 1993 season as starting number 97. The driver of the Kleenex- sponsored car was Chad Little , owner Greg Pollex. Until the end of the 1996 season, Little and Pollex competed with various sponsors in selected races, before the first full season followed in 1997 with John Deere as sponsor. After financial problems and poor performance, Roush bought three-quarters of the team during the season. Little qualified the car for 27 of the 32 races of the season. In the 1998 season, the team returned with Ford as a new manufacturer.
Little had the best result of his career with a runner-up in the Texas 500 and despite missing the spring race in Atlanta, he finished 15th in the championship at the end of the season. Thereafter, the performance deteriorated during the 2000 season, whereupon Little left the team. Kurt Busch , a Craftsman Truck Series driver for Roush, took the wheel for the remainder of the season. Like the start number 16 in the 2000 season, the start number 97 started the 2001 season initially without sponsor support before Rubbermaid and Sharpie got on as sponsors. Busch's rookie season was relatively unspectacular. He achieved pole position at Darlington and finished 27th in the championship with six top 10 results. In 2002 he knocked Jimmy Spencer down in a battle for victory in Bristol. He won a total of four races this season, three of them within the last five races of the season. Busch finished third in the championship. In the 2003 season he scored four wins and 14 top 10 results. He was in the top 10 of the championship for much of the season, but worsened towards eleventh place. The 2004 season was the most successful to date for the number 97. With three wins, 21 top 10 results and a pole position, Busch won his first championship and the second for Roush Fenway Racing. A year later, he slipped back to tenth place with three wins.
In the middle of the 2005 season, Busch announced that he would be leaving Roush Fenway Racing to replace the resigned Rusty Wallace in Penske Racing's number 2 car . On November 7, 2005 it was announced that Busch was released from his contractual obligations and could change at the end of the season. On November 11th, Busch was stopped for drunk driving and reckless driving. Although no sanctions were taken by NASCAR, Roush Fenway Racing suspended him for the remainder of the season. Kenny Wallace took his place in the last two races.
On November 16, 2005 it was officially announced that the starting number for the 2006 season will be changed from 97 to 26. Jamie McMurray became new riders with Crown Royal , Smirnoff Ice and Irwin Industrial Tools as sponsors. In his first year for Roush Fenway Racing, McMurray scored seven top 10 results and finished 25th in the championship. He also won the Pepsi 400 with a margin of 0.005 seconds over Kyle Busch .
Before the number 97 was converted, there was already a number 26 car in the 1998 and 1999 seasons that was used by Roush Fenway Racing. Sponsored by General Mills , the team made their debut at North Carolina Speedway , where Johnny Benson finished 30th. Benson finished the season with ten top 10 results and 20th place in the championship. After just two top 10 results in the 1999 season and 28th place in the championship, Benson left the team to drive for Tyler Jet Motorsports . The team was then disbanded.
Since, after a decision by NASCAR, only four cars per team were allowed to compete from the 2010 season, the team with starting number 26 was dissolved at the end of the 2009 season. Jamie McMurray left the team for Earnhardt Ganassi Racing .
Car # 99
The number 99 car first competed in the 1996 Daytona 500 with Jeff Burton and Exide Batteries as sponsors. Burton scored fifth. After missing the first race of the season in Atlanta, Burton won a pole position in Michigan and finished the season 13th in the championship.
In the 1997 season, Burton won three races and improved to fourth in the championship. In 1998 he scored two wins and 23 top 10 results, and finished fifth in the championship. After the team with Burton at the wheel was initially in the lead in the 1999 season, they fell off after a poor performance in Richmond. At the end of the season there were six wins, 23 top 10 results and fifth place in the points. Towards the end of the season, Exide got out as a sponsor and was replaced by Citgo. The team achieved their best result to date with third place in the championship, four wins, 22 top 10 results and one pole position. His last win with the number 99 Burton achieved in Phoenix 2001. After only moderate performance, he fell back to tenth place in the championship.
After the 2003 season, Citgo ended its sponsorship. New main sponsors became SKF and Pennzoil. After further disappointments, Burton left the team with many sponsors in mid-2004 for Richard Childress Racing . Roush promoted Carl Edwards from the Craftsman Truck Series to the new pilot of the starting number 99. In the remainder of the 2004 season, he achieved five top 10 results. In his first full season, Edwards won four races and finished third in the championship. New sponsors included Scotts, Office Depot , Stonebridge Life Insurance Company, and the World Financial Group . In the 2006 season, Office Depot became the team's sole sponsor. Edwards did not win a single race in 2006 and also missed a place in the Chase for the Nextel Cup , but finished twelfth in the championship with ten top 10 results. After 52 races without a win, Edwards won the Citizens Bank 400 at Michigan International Speedway in the 2007 season and made the jump to Chase, where he won the Dodge Dealers 400 at Dover International Speedway . In 2008 Edwards won nine races in the number 99 and took second place in the overall standings, in the 2009 season he again succeeded in qualifying for the Chase for the Sprint Cup, but Edwards could not achieve any victories.
NASCAR Nationwide Series
Car # 06
The car with the starting number 06 made its debut at the Hershey's Kissables 300 at Daytona International Speedway on February 18, 2006. The car's first driver was Todd Kluever , first sponsor 3M. Over the course of the season, Kluever achieved four top 10 results and one pole position. During the 2007 season, Mark Martin drove the car with Dish Network as a sponsor at Daytona International Speedway and Texas Motor Speedway . In the following years the starting number was no longer used.
Car # 6
The number 6 debuted in Daytona in the 1997 season as number 9. Jeff Burton drove the Track Gear sponsored Ford Taurus to 40th place. In the following six years, Burton won a total of 16 times with different sponsors. After Burton Roush left Fenway Racing in mid-2004, Mark Martin returned to the Busch Series , scoring four top 10 results in five starts. In 2005 he also drove five races, of which he won two. After a number swap with Evernham Motorsports in 2006, the start number changed from 9 to 6. The car was then used in selected races. In 2007 David Ragan took over the helm with the Discount Tire Company as a sponsor. In addition, the team received the owner points from the start number 06. Ragan scored two wins in the 2009 season in the number 6 car. At the beginning of the 2010 season, Ricky Stenhouse jr. the steering wheel of the starting number 6.
Car # 16
The starting number 16 was used in the Busch Series for the first time at Daytona in the 2006 season. Greg Biffle drove the Ameriquest sponsored car in 20 races, one of which he won at California Speedway . In the 2007 season, Biffle and Todd Kluever shared the car, which was sponsored by 3M. In the years 2008 and 2009, several drivers found their place in the starting number 16. Colin Braun was supposed to take over the car as a full-time driver in the 2010 season, but due to poor performance he was given a break after a few races. Matt Kenseth drove the number 16 during these races.
Car # 17
The number 17 debuted at Darlington Raceway in the 1994 season . The driver and owner of the car was Robbie Reiser , who drove the car in 35th place after an accident without sponsor support. Reiser drove selected races for several years before hiring Tim Bender in 1997. After Bender injured himself, Reiser hired Matt Kenseth as the new driver. Kenseth scored seven top 10 results and finished the season 22nd in the championship. His performance convinced Reiser, who then signed him for the entire following season. Kenseth won his first race at the North Carolina Speedway . With Lycos as a new sponsor, he won a total of three races and was second in the championship behind Dale Earnhardt junior. From 1999 DeWalt Tools became a new sponsor and Kenseth won four other races. He finished the season in third place. Until the 2002 season, the team was not part of Roush Fenway Racing. Reiser used Chevrolets until the end of the 2001 season . Since then, the starting number 17 has been used for selected races with a large number of sponsors and Kenseth and other drivers drove at least one race with the car every season.
Car # 26
The number 26 car made its debut in Daytona in 2006 under the number 50. Danny O'Quinn was the first driver and the World Financial Group and Stonebridge Life Insurance Company were the first sponsors. O'Quinn scored five top 10 results and won the title of Rookie of the Year, despite being replaced by David Ragan in two races. For the 2007 season the team changed the starting number to 26 and Greg Biffle started with Oreo as a sponsor in Daytona. Other drivers of the season included Jamie MyMurray and Todd Kluever.
Car # 60
The number 60 car is the original car that Roush Fenway Racing started with in the Nationwide Series . He made his debut in Daytona in 1992 with Mark Martin as driver and Winn-Dixie as sponsor. In his debut race, he finished sixth. Martin drove the car until the end of the 2000 season and had more Nationwide Series wins than Jack Ingram , the previous driver with the most series wins. At the end of the 2000 season, Martin ended his involvement in the Nationwide Series as did Winn-Dixie as a sponsor. The new driver was Greg Biffle, who brought Grainger with him as a new sponsor. In his rookie season, Biffle won five races and temporarily led the championship, but ended up fourth. After four wins and winning the championship in the 2002 season, Biffle switched to the cup series and took Grainger as a sponsor. Then in 2003 Stanton Barrett took over the helm with Odoban as a sponsor. After two pole positions, which he was awarded due to failed qualifying sessions and owner points, the team withdrew due to concerns about sponsorship during the season. The team returned in the 2004 season with Greg Biffle as driver and Charter Communications as driver. Biffle drove the full season and with five wins he finished third in the championship. In 2005 Carl Edwards took over the helm. With five wins and third place in the championship, he secured the title of Rookie of the Year. In the 2006 season he also competed in all races in the Ameriquest sponsored car, won four times and finished second in the championship. In 2007 Edwards won the championship with the number 60. The car was also driven by Edwards in 2008 and 2009.
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
Truck # 6
The number 6 truck made its debut in Heartland Park Topeka in 1996 as the number 99. Sponsored by Exide Batteries, Jeff Burton finished eighth. He also achieved three top 10 results in four races. Burton shared the car with Mark Martin, who won at North Wilkesboro Speedway . The following year, Chuck Bown drove the full season and finished the season in ninth place with 13 top 10 results. New driver from the 1998 season was Joe Ruttman . He scored a victory as well as third place in the championship. After just one season, Mike Bliss took over the wheel, won in Martinsville and finished ninth in the championship. After Bliss switched to the Winston Cup, Kurt Busch joined the team as a new driver. He scored four wins in the 2000 season and was second behind Biffle in the championship and Rookie of the Year.
Both Busch and Exide left the team after the season and were replaced by rookie Nathan Haseleu and Eldon as sponsors. Despite four top 10 results in the first twelve races of the 2001 season, Haseleu was replaced by Kurt Busch's younger brother Kyle . At the age of 16, he had two top 10 results and was to drive the full 2002 season until NASCAR decided that drivers in the top series must be at least 18 years old. After Tim Fedewa then drove the inaugural race of the 2002 season, the team withdrew the car from the series for the rest of the season. In 2003 the team returned with Carl Edwards as a new driver and Superchips as a sponsor. Edwards won three races as well as the title of Rookie of the Year. In the 2004 season he also won three races and improved to fourth place in the championship. After Edwards moved to the Nextel Cup in 2005, Roush Fenway Racing hired former cup driver Ricky Craven as a replacement. Despite seven top 10 results and a victory in Martinsville, Roush and Craven ended their collaboration in 2006. Before the start of the 2006 season, the team changed the starting number from 99 to 6. The wheel was shared by Nextel Cup veteran Mark Martin and rookie David Ragan. Scotts became the new sponsor of the truck. Martin won the first two races of the season and decided to drive more races than originally planned. He competed in all races that did not collide with his use in the Nextel Cup. At Mansfield , Ragen was replaced by Auggie Vidovich II after he had an accident in training. He finished the race in 19th place. Ragan himself achieved six top 10 finishes and one pole position, while Martin won five times. In the owner points, the team finished the season in second place. In the 2007 season, Travis Kvapil , the 2003 series champion , drove the number 6 truck. Colin Braun took over the wheel of the number 6 in the 2008 season , winning the Rookie of the Year Award for best newcomer and finishing 13th. the championship ranking. In the 2009 season, Braun scored his first victory in the number 6. In the following year Braun left the Camping World Truck Series to drive the starting number 16 of the Nationwide Series. The truck team with starting number 6 was dissolved.
Truck # 50
The truck with the starting number 50 was first used in the 2005 season as a development vehicle for Ford. Bobby East tried to qualify the then starting number 33 in a few races, but did not succeed. Mark Martin achieved the first qualification of the car at the Ford 200 , where he started the race from 14th on the grid and finished eighth. The sponsor was Stonebridge Life Insurance.
After Martin's strong start to the 2006 season in the truck with starting number 6, he took part in more races than the originally planned. Roush therefore decided to set up another part-time team in order to be able to use David Ragan in the planned races. In the number 50 he drove to 22nd place in Atlanta, but deteriorated in the next races in both the number 50 and 6 truck. After an accident in the number 6 during training in Mansfield , he was replaced for the weekend . Carl Edwards drove the number 50 in Dover before Ragan returned to the cockpit in Texas . He achieved his best result at the EasyCare Vehicle Service Contracts 200 in Atlanta in autumn with a sixth place. Other drivers for the 2006 season were Peter Shepherd and Michel Jourdain junior . In the 2007 season, Carl Edwards, TJ Bell , Peter Shepherd and Danny O'Quinn jr. the start number 50.
Truck # 99
The number 99 truck is the truck that Roush Fenway Racing originally debuted on the Heartland Park Topeka street circuit in the 1995 season. Todd Bodine drove the truck to fourth place under the number 61 at the time. Bodine scored two more top 10 finishes at Richmond and Mesa Marin Raceway before Ted Musgrave took over the truck and finished fourth in Phoenix. At the beginning of the 1996 season, the starting number was changed to 80 and Joe Ruttman took over the wheel. Ruttman scored 16 top 10 results and finished fourth in the championship. With LCI as sponsor, he won five races in 1997 and improved to third at the end of the season. After the starting number was changed from 80 to 50 at the beginning of the 1998 season, Ruttman drove one race before switching to starting number 99. Greg Biffle came as a replacement on the advice of Benny Parsons . Despite not winning a race, Biffle took four pole positions and finished eighth in the championship.
In the 1999 season, Biffle won a total of nine races with the starting number 50 and had a chance of the championship, which Jack Sprague ultimately won. Although he achieved only five wins in the 2000 season, he won the championship with a 230 point lead over his teammate Kurt Busch . After Biffle moved to the Busch Series the following season , Roush hired Chuck Hossfeld as a new driver. Because of poor performance in his rookie season, he was fired after a short time. Jon Wood and Greg Biffle came as replacements . Wood convinced Roush and got the cockpit for the full season for the 2002 season, in which he landed in twelfth place in the championship with twelve top 10 results. In the 2003 season he scored two victories and was fifth at the end of the season. After finishing 15th in the championship in the 2004 season, Todd Kluever took over the truck in 2005 and scored six top five and twelve top 10 results in his rookie season. At the beginning of the 2006 season, the starting number was changed from 50 to 99 and Erik Darnell took over the wheel, securing the title of Rookie of the Year.
Partnerships
Yates Racing
Since 2004 there has been a partnership with Yates Racing , which also relies on Ford as a manufacturer. The two teams announced that they want to merge their engine departments to improve engine performance. In the 2006 season, most Ford teams used Yates / Roush engines, including Ford's long-time Wood Brothers / JTG Racing team .
Tim Brown
In 2005, NFL hall-of-fame wide receiver Tim Brown announced that he would set up his own NASCAR team and source material from Roush. Brown also said he would let Roush pick the drivers. The series in which the team competes depends on how much money is made available by sponsors.
No fear racing
In 2006 the manufacturer of SoBe No Fear energy drink announced that they wanted to contest the 2007 season with a new team. The first driver of the car was the road course specialist Boris Said . It was also announced that the Roush Fenway Racing team would be affiliated so that Roush could sell cars and equipment to No Fear Racing and help the team develop. In return, Said teaches Roush's younger drivers on street courses.
Robby Gordon Motorsports
At the beginning of the 2007 season, Robby Gordon moved from Chevrolet to Ford after signing a corresponding contract with Ford Racing. Since then he has been leasing engine from the Roush / Yates engine program.
Founding of Roush Fenway Racing
On February 14, 2007, the Fenway Sports Group , owner of the Boston Red Sox baseball team , acquired 50% of Roush Racing, creating the new company Roush Fenway Racing.
Mike Dee, President of the Fenway Sports Group, said of the entry into NASCAR: “Although there have been many instances of cross ownership in the world of professional sports, this partnership marks the first time that owners of a professional franchise in one of the four major leagues have crossed over into the world of NASCAR. " (in German: " Although there are already many examples of sports Cross-ownership in professional sports, this partnership marks the first time when an owner of a professional franchise one of the four major leagues the leap into made the world of NASCAR. " )
The team was managed with Jack Roush as head of all competition-related operations and Geoff Smith as president and responsible for all business affairs.
The Gong Show
Roush Fenway Racing committed many of its young drivers in an elimination process called "The Gong Show". The selection process begins with Roush soliciting applications from drivers from all classes. The drivers then go through a large number of tests where not only their driving skills are assessed, but also their appearance in public and their character. Ultimately, the field of applicants is thinned out until a small group remains. The remaining applicants are seated behind the wheel of Roush racing cars, often Craftsman Truck Series trucks, to assess their driving skills. Those with the fastest times keep going until only the best get a contract to compete for Roush Fenway Racing in the Craftsman Truck Series or Nationwide Series.
The name "Gong Show" comes from the talent show parody "The Gong Show" from the 1970s.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.jayski.com/teams/newteams.htm
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20120229145135/http://www.roushfenway.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070214&content_id=1005&vkey=news&fext=.jsp
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