Great News and i also read where Menard just entered the Toledo ARCA Race. I wonder if he will be running the FR9. Remember when Roush stated in one of his interviews, when asked WHEN IT WOULD BE TESTED IN A RACE. He said it could even be in a ARCA race
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OLD ENGINE )----------------- DO YOU KNOW HOW NASCAR WILL OVERSEE YOUR MOVE WITH THE FIFTH CAR? “I’m not sure about that. I wouldn’t anticipate selling the sponsorship or selling the number. That certainly is not a consideration and that’s not my priority to do that and I wouldn’t try that, but I would like to see all of our existing sponsors have a happy and solid relationship with Roush Fenway. If it stays in a Ford, we’d be determined to build their cars for it and provide engineering for it, so the full faith and trust of Roush Fenway would follow one of our drivers and one of our sponsors if we could find a happy circumstance where the sponsor would be willing to go.” WHAT IS THE TIMING ON PHASING IN THE NEW ENGINE? “The timing on it is really going to be determined by how much we can afford and how competitive the engine proves to be. The old engine is doing a really good job. That is the engine of the future. The obsolescence of the existing engine, depending on the timing of it, will result in very little additional cost to the teams in terms of the obsolescence, or it could be in the millions of dollars for a team. So I’m anxious, given the economic circumstance and the competitiveness of the engine, I’m going to have the brakes on its introduction, so we don’t obsolete a current engine that has value in it, that’s got service life left in it, and we certainly don’t take a risk by trying to do something sooner than we’ve got enough testing to verify that it’s gonna be a solid move without risk.” HOW WOULD YOU DETERMINE WHO GETS IT FIRST? “All five of mine and hopefully all three of Yates’ teams will be running for a championship trying to get in the chase and we certainly wouldn’t make any decision that would involve any risk we were able to anticipate. [size=12[b]]We may wind up and place it in an ARCA program initially[/b].[/size] Certainly some of the short tracks that are not known to be hard on engines will be an option. I’m certain that we’ll go tire testing with it with some of the Goodyear tire tests coming up – that’s a good way to generate a lot of miles. We haven’t spent a lot of times on it, but we’ll certainly look at not carrying any amount of risk. I know when GM came out with their latest engine they had all of these mechanical fuel pumps that packed it in. The Hendrick guys and the Gibbs guys both had engine failures and maybe Childress did as well, as a result of the fuel pump function – the cable-driven fuel pump. Now I’m told that system is developed so that’s not the case and it’s not a problem, but I very much don’t want to come back and make a change that will carry with it a component that’s not known and carry a risk to our program.” << PREVIOUS NEXT >>
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