WHAT HAPPEN TO ROUSH CARS????????????

[size=12][b]I was sick watching one after one blowing engines. Thank goodness YATES didn't have that problem. Maybe Roush Engineers should stop messing with THE YATES ENGINES. If Doug didn't find that extra H/P Roush was looking for , than it doesn't exist, with THE OLD WORK HORSE. THE BETTER ENGINE IS COMING AND NOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.

There are no "Roush" and "Yates" engine engineers. There are only "Roush-Yates engine" engineers. It is a joint effort between the two teams. Roush engineers didn't mess with the engines. They had a failure. It happens.

The Roush Yates motor guys build the best motors out there, but sometimes things like this happen. No big deal - on to Atlanta.

Too bad Kyle Busch didn't blow up!!!

Hope the guys figure out what caused the problems. Atlanta is tough on engines too.

TeamBlueOval wrote:

There are no "Roush" and "Yates" engine engineers. There are only "Roush-Yates engine" engineers. It is a joint effort between the two teams. Roush engineers didn't mess with the engines. They had a failure. It happens.

The Roush Yates motor guys build the best motors out there, but sometimes things like this happen. No big deal - on to Atlanta.

Maybe I should have said Engineers and CC working in the Roush Shop. Roush has said they used bad judgement in making gear selection. I guess YATES CC'S made the right selection.

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Engine problems had different causes: The president of Toyota Racing Development says the engine failures incurred by the three Roush Fenway Racing teams during Sunday's Sprint Cup race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway were unrelated to the problems five Toyota teams experienced on Saturday. "Not in any way related,'' Lee White said on Monday. "We're going to take 100% responsibility for maybe not having all of our ducks in a row with durability testing when we got to the racetrack to be ready for the decisions the teams put the engines through to get ready for qualifying.'' Four teams supplied engines by TRD -- #00-David Reutimann and #47-Marcos Ambrose of Michael Waltrip Racing and #83-Brian Vickers and #82-Scott Speed of Red Bull Racing -- had to switch engines and start at the rear of the field. Pole-sitter and eventual race winner #18-Kyle Busch also started at the back of the field after switching engines, but his was built by Joe Gibbs Racing. White said all seven teams supplied engines by TRD likely will go to Atlanta this week with the same new generation engine but with the conservative package -- a thicker lubricant and small mechanical change that determines how much oil stays around the camshaft -- that reduced horsepower by three to four at Vegas. He blamed the Toyota failures on teams trying to get more horsepower out of the engine for qualifying and practice. Instead of returning to Charlotte, N.C., on Monday he flew to TRD headquarters in California to make sure the issue wasn't a factor moving forward.
Roush Fenway co-owner Jack Roush on Sunday speculated that the new tire Goodyear introduced led to blown engines by #17-Matt Kenseth, #6-David Ragan and #99-Carl Edwards. Doug Yates, who runs the Roush Yates engine program, wanted to wait until the engines were fully examined before commenting. "I think we misjudged how fast this tire was going to be, and the engine turned more,'' he said. "It's the same spec on the engine that we had all of last year. It wasn't something new or experimental. I had great confidence in it.'' White said he is comfortable moving forward after Sunday in which three Toyotas finished in the top eight -- including two with the more conservative TRD engine -- and eight were in the top 22.(ESPN.com)(3-3-2009)

This was a terrible race. The only saving grace was Bobby getting a top 5.

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Changes in gears rules for Vegas in 2010? NASCAR is considering an adjustment on the gear rule for Las Vegas next season to prevent the engine failures that plagued numerous Sprint Cup teams last weekend. Roush Fenway Racing lost three engines on Sunday, equaling the number of engines the team lost all of last season. Doug Yates, who oversees the Roush-Yates engine program, said the situation could have been avoided had there been a more conservative gear ratio that would have reduced rpms that were much higher than expected with the new tire and improved horsepower. He said weather conditions -- only 15% humidity -- also may have contributed to the failures. "With all that stacked against us, we just weren't ready for what we expected," Yates said. "I talked to the NASCAR guys after the race and they said they probably will go back and evaluate the gear ratios. That particular race we were a lot above where we want these engines to be running." Yates said several of the Roush and Yates cars reached 9,800 rpms on the front stretch -- about 400 more than where he and NASCAR would like the reading to be. "NASCAR is addressing that," he said. "They don't want us to, especially in these times, spend more money to make engines turn 10,000 rpms. That's not the intention of the gear rule." Yates agreed with Lee White, the president of Toyota Racing Development, that the engine failures that Ford experienced in the race were different than what Toyota faced in practice and qualifying. Those problems were fixed by using thicker lubricants and making a small mechanical adjustment. But he agreed all teams are pushing limits on the engines, and that these problems likely would have occurred had there not been a ban on testing. "I'm not going to blame not testing or NASCAR," he said. "At the end of the day if we run in those type of conditions again it's our job to make the engines stronger and more durable. I didn't anticipate those type of things." Yates doesn't expect the high rpm rate to be a factor this week at Atlanta because the tires will fall off faster and keep speeds slower. That doesn't mean he's not a bit worried.(ESPN)(3-4-2009)

Fordguy wrote:

This was a terrible race. The only saving grace was Bobby getting a top 5.

It was going to be OK if Carl finished 2nd, but then the engine went on the last lap! UGH! LOL

But, Bobby getting that top-5 was nice.

TeamBlueOval wrote:

Fordguy wrote:

This was a terrible race. The only saving grace was Bobby getting a top 5.

It was going to be OK if Carl finished 2nd, but then the engine went on the last lap! UGH! LOL

But, Bobby getting that top-5 was nice.

so was seeing Rudy finishing 4th