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
anybody cars given group nice
We've got a really nice group of cars that can go do pretty much on any given day what anybody can do in the business,
best excited large margin trade year
We're real excited about 2006. 2005 was by a large, large margin the best year I've ever had in this business. I wouldn't trade any of the years that preceded it.
drivers fact five game swimming top
The fact that we have all five of our drivers in a synchronized swimming kind of situation, where they're all at the top of their game at the same time, is pretty special.
amount asked five generous happier three time willing
It is a concession. Three years was what we asked for. It's the most generous amount of time we thought they would be willing to accept. I would have been even happier with five years.
success surprise
To be able to now have this success is a real surprise to me.
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We don't have a realistic prospect of beating the 48 or the 20 with any of our cars, unless somebody has trouble, ... I expect them to run in the top five the rest of the way. We've had a great run.
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We don't have a realistic prospect of beating the 20 (Stewart) or the 48 (Johnson) with any of our cars, Carl included, unless somebody else has trouble,
based carrying certainly gone justified normally otherwise public racing required revolution series technology truck
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.
brought starting time
They've brought it out just at a time when we were starting our Chase,
five guy standing teams
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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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.
aspects based business carrying investment justified level otherwise
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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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.
third time tried week
This is the third time this week you've tried to get my goat,