Jack Roush
Jack Roush
Jack Roushis the founder, CEO, and co-owner of Roush Fenway Racing, a NASCAR team headquartered in Concord, North Carolina, and is Chairman of the Board of Roush Enterprises...
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth19 April 1942
CityCovington, KY
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We are very pleased that Matt extended his contract. It's very assuring knowing that he will be staying on with us and I know that the first goal on his agenda is to take that championship trophy back.
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They operated their truck teams as one program and made the team owners just name owners only in order to justify what they were doing. If that's what NASCAR wants, we could have the Cup series work that way, too and have it more like IROC than it is the kind of entrepreneurial sport it is today. But I don't think that's where it will go. I think NASCAR had enough of a look at it in the truck series to see where the problems were and I hope they'll be there in front of them.
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They have a way of carrying a different level of investment than would otherwise be justified based on the business aspects of the business, and we're yet to see how that will unfold.
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It's just going to be different because they have a different way of racing than we do.
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This is really a great weekend to be able to have three of our different drivers win all three races, especially that truck race on Friday night. That's the one that we couldn't get close to last year based on where our truck was, but Ford gave us a new F-150 package and Mark Martin is leading the charge on that deal. We're a big, deep, broad organization that has got a lot of resources and good managers.
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For him to have led this team to three victories and to have the blue sky that he's got and the potential he's got, it is beyond my wildest imagination,
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There will be Busch programs that can step up to Cup. The economy has made it hard to generate the money and all the research has made it more sophisticated. Forty-three cars to me is a good number, but 33 would be good, too.
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This is the third time this week you've tried to get my goat,
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They've got a different way of racing than what we've normally had. The truck series has gone through a revolution of carrying in technology that otherwise wasn't required and certainly not justified based on the public sponsorships.
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They've brought it out just at a time when we were starting our Chase,
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They tell me it's not personal, but I'm the only guy standing here with five teams that is making them work,
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There's just no way I can have bad news with one of my guys winning. I would cheer any one of them and it doesn't matter to me.
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There's one guy that's got one thing technically that we don't understand that has beat us a couple of times this year.
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I slept on it for 24 hours, ... and it made a lot of sense, so I agreed. Both of us then put our best pieces on the table, and we both found surprises. We took parts from both our engines, and we were able to increase our horsepower.