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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Fact is, Carl is a young man of great potential and enthusiasm. He's on a learning curve that's straight up and it'd be more likely he'd have a great result this year than it was him having a great result last year. He doesn't need to focus on not losing, he doesn't need to focus on hanging on, he just needs to go out and do what's natural, which is what got him where he is.
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But Matt stuck with all of his guys and he stuck with the strategy that we had. He's got the maturity to know this is a cyclical business with ups and downs and he was not gonna give up on the good thing he thought he had going when it was down and he was gonna wait for it to turn and it has. He's been right.
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We've got a lot of confidence in Matt and his abilities, and we feel that he will be a great addition to our program. He's been around the series for a while, and knows what it takes to be competitive and win races.
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More and more, I give Mark Martin more credit for what we are and what we can do. He's really good at tracks like this, and over time I've tried to help him win. Mark's got his fingerprints over everything we do.
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Maybe NASCAR, behind the scenes, is trying to do the same thing, ... They brought it out just at a time when we were starting the Chase. If they wanted to cause distractions to my teams, to create anxiety among my drivers, create a question in my sponsors as to my viability ... and the prospects of Roush Racing going forward, they would do exactly what they have done.
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Los Angeles is a huge market for us. California Speedway is important to NASCAR and to its sponsors. We need to be here. Shortly, we will build more of a market.
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Los Angeles is a huge, huge market. It's important to all of our sponsors. We need to be here twice a year.
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On the face of it, I'm cheering for them for going out and finding something with the same parts the rest of us are running and making it work better, which they did,
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I wouldn't bet against Carl Edwards. We think Carl can be as good in this business as anybody's been.
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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.
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I've been telling the guys that we hadn't peaked yet and if it came soon enough we might have a chance. I'd all but written off our chances to get in (the Chase) three races ago, but Robbie (Reiser, crew chief) and the guys didn't lose the faith. We've got it turned around now.
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The thing they did by picking on five rather than four is they singled me out. I'm the only guy with five viable teams and the worst of all scenarios (for NASCAR) is we put all five of them in the Chase,
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The thing I'm doing is building toward next year and the years that will follow. We've had a great run, even though this may not be a year of harvest for that.