The Assimilation Continues

[CarSalesman]

Roush to build all Yates cars:

Roush Fenway Racing will be building all of Yates Racing's Sprint Cup next season, and team co-owner Jack Roush said he's looking forward to helping the Yates group return to its performance levels of old. Starting with the 2008 season, Roush Fenway Racing will manufacture all of Yates Racing's cars, with Yates moving to Concord, N.C., next to Roush Fenway's shops. Yates, meanwhile, will lease its current shop in Mooresville, N.C., to Petty Enterprises.

"We're making preparations to enter into a service agreement with them that will avail them of the technology and of the vehicles with the engineering essence and the vehicles that are coming out of our construction activities," said Roush Saturday morning at Phoenix International Raceway. "We want to try to breath some blue sky and some viability back into the program. One of the benefits of Roush Fenway Racing building cars for both teams is that in the long run, it will result in cost savings, because the cost for R&D, tooling, etc., will be spread over a larger number of cars" Roush said.

"We've got some opportunities of scale, in terms of understanding what we need to do and then the more volume you generate off that for the same amount of engineering work, design work, tooling, all those things you do, it's an extraordinarily expensive proposition to go do all the testing that's necessary to build and support one Cup car in today's world," said Roush. "If, taken to the other extreme, an IROC scenario where all the cars were completely identical coming out of the factory, then the cost to the teams and the value to the sponsors would be maximized. This is something in between."

(Ford Racing)(11-12-2007)

[07roushgt]

everyone better have their heads on straight and their motors turned up to compete with hendrick next year. nascar;s future is really almost dependant upon ROUSH doing well if you think about it. with the hendrick domination this year nascars ratings, attendance, merchandise sales, and notoriety are dropping like a rock. what once seemed like a bulletproof sport has now giving into what people hate the most with any sport...predictability! if ROUSH does not field a great team next year and really give the chevy boys a run for the money nascar will need to get a huge facelift!

[1Bad06Roush]

It's a really smart move, especially when NASCAR only allows 4 cars per team. They found that loop hole where essentially they now have a 6 car team.

[bigtone408]

Originally Posted by 07roushgt

what once seemed like a bulletproof sport has now giving into what people hate the most with any sport...predictability

The problem is not predictability. Plenty of sports are predictable and ratings are increasing, especially motor sport. The problem is perception.

[Pastor J]

I predict in 5 years we will be watching the same exact car driven by all 43 teams with only the decals being different......oh wait....that's the car of tommorrow now.

I just wish they would allow them to drive cars that resembled the factory cars.

[Mr DayZee]

Originally Posted by 1Bad06Roush

It's a really smart move, especially when NASCAR only allows 4 cars per team. They found that loop hole where essentially they now have a 6 car team.

Well I would say a semi-smart move...because Yates is putting Travis Kvapil in the car Ricky Rudd just vacated...I don't think such a smart move but who know's...

[DayZee469]

Yeah on the fact of expanding the Roush team...i think its a good move. And it really seems Roush started turning up the heat at the end of the season and maybe will carry some momentum into next season. The COT is just awful but I gotta admit...it started improving after a handful of the races were out of the way. Maybe the teams finally started getting it down or maybe the drivers finally started getting comfortable with the car enough to pass. Who knows....but you gotta do what the head cheez says

[Sabre]

I think it was pretty well reported this past summer, that Roush Fenway Racing was a few steps behind some of the other teams, when it came to the COT. Apparently Roush hadn't understood the testing rules correctly and didn't know that they could test at other tracks, like the other teams were doing. They launched a determined testing effort mid summer and got a lot of info, that got them back in the game, as far as the COT. Had they been up to speed with the COT earlier in the year, I'm betting that we would have seen a much different points chase and very possibly a different championship outcome. Matt, Greg and Carl might have all contended for the championship. Now that they are on the right track with the COT, Hendrick's bunch should look out next year!

[06Roush_st_3]

I have to say that there is way to many large teams. I think that teams should be limited to 2 cars not 4. Yes I am a HUGE Roush fan but the racing now is just boring. Wow so Jimmie Johnson was up front, O Look he won again. I give little respect for winning 4 races in a row. Yes it was a great achievement but it's BORING!!! If my GF wasn't into NASCAR so much I really wouldn't watch it much.

The COT is great for safety, that is awesome. No one needs to get hurt if they can be safer. The car is still crappy though, I certainly don't see it being better racing, it's NOT saving any of the teams money, maybe it will in a couple of years though. The fact that the exterior of all the cars is the same is a joke. The cars should look like the real cars at least a little.

I really hope that the Nation Wide (Busch) Series, goes to the pony cars. It will make it different, and more interesting. Hopefully keep some of the Busch wackers out of the series as well. There needs to be a Nation Wide Series champion, not a Cup driver winning the series. Don't get me wrong, Carl Edwards is one of my favorite drivers, but the series is out of control.

[Sabre]

Originally Posted by 06Roush_st_3

I have to say that there is way to many large teams. I think that teams should be limited to 2 cars not 4. Yes I am a HUGE Roush fan but the racing now is just boring. Wow so Jimmie Johnson was up front, O Look he won again. I give little respect for winning 4 races in a row. Yes it was a great achievement but it's BORING!!! If my GF wasn't into NASCAR so much I really wouldn't watch it much.

The COT is great for safety, that is awesome. No one needs to get hurt if they can be safer. The car is still crappy though, I certainly don't see it being better racing, it's NOT saving any of the teams money, maybe it will in a couple of years though. The fact that the exterior of all the cars is the same is a joke. The cars should look like the real cars at least a little.

I really hope that the Nation Wide (Busch) Series, goes to the pony cars. It will make it different, and more interesting. Hopefully keep some of the Busch wackers out of the series as well. There needs to be a Nation Wide Series champion, not a Cup driver winning the series. Don't get me wrong, Carl Edwards is one of my favorite drivers, but the series is out of control.

I pretty much agree. I would much rather watch road racing, but TV carries much less road racing, than it does the roundy round.....so, sometimes you take what you can get. NASCAR should have more road racing, but it's NEVER going to happen and I'm betting eventually the 2 road course races that they do now will be dropped. Here's what would make NASCAR more interesting in my book:

New Rules


1. No more top 35 being locked into qualifying....no more past champion's provisionals....everybody qualifies on time....the top 43 are in.

2. Every 5th race, is done in a showroom stock car, of the same model that their Cup car is "supposed" to represent. Running the A/C during the summer months would be optional. Flat out on a high banked oval with stock street tires....now THAT would be fun and interesting to watch!

3. Every other pit stop, the driver must bail out of his car and change at least one of his own tires, before getting back in and getting back out on the track.....additional points to be awarded for gracefully getting out of and into the car.

4. Before each race, a drawing will be conducted, where the driver drawn out of the hat, has to go on national TV and sing his sponsor's jingle....this would replace "the most famous words in motorsport".

OK....those were just silly....but they would spice things up a bit!

I've heard rumors that they are contemplating not giving Busch ( now to be Nationwide ) points to any regular cup driver that runs in the Busch (now to be Nationwide ) series. It's just rumor and there are a lot of rumors flying around!

[06Roush_st_3]

I heard about not giving a cup driver in the top 35 in points points in a Busch (Nationwide) race. That would be awesome in my book.

I do think the top 35 should be more like top 25, the past champion, maybe 5 years back, but not like some of these guys are using them. some kind of gaurantee that the top drivers will be in the race when you pay to go would be good. I have to say though a race that Jeff Gordan failed to qualify for would be the best race EVER.