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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Kurt had been a challenge for everybody that interacted with him on the team at some time or other. He used up his equity with his sponsors. He used up his equity with me.
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We need to be here twice a year. If we have the kind of racing that we're having, and if it gets the coverage that I'm sure it will receive, over a period of time we'll be able to fill the stands.
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He never raised his hand and said there wasn't on the table the things he need to do his business. He just needed the time for it to work out.
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Fielding a third truck in Atlanta will enable David to run in front of his hometown crowd, friends and family. It will also gain him some additional seat time in preparation for his stint driving the No. 6. We're looking forward to getting David a jump start on his 2006 schedule.
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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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They've brought it out just at a time when we were starting our Chase,
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This is the third time this week you've tried to get my goat,
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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.
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I'm going to say that Carl Edwards -- I predict -- is the driver of the decade for not only Roush Racing but for all of Nextel Cup racing, ... I cant imagine anybody coming into the business in their first full year and being able to win four times, and won in the Busch car for the first time this year.
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I said, 'If I put five in this first year's competition with the Chase, you guys are going to say I'm predatory,'
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I said, 'Mike, right now there has been a lot of criticism on multi-team programs and it's growing and getting stronger and it's going to continue to do that,
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is as cold-blooded as any driver I've ever worked with.
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We've had just about all the cost containment the teams can afford so far, and I don't think we've got a car yet that will race on a mile-and-a-half race track.