Roush Fenway Racing will be building all of Yates Racing’s Sprint Cup cars 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.”
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looks like a match made in racing heaven the other teams should look into doing something similar
I’ve been saying for awhile that if the Chevys all worked with the Chevys and the other manufactures did the same the series would be alot more competive, and it’d add another level to the “Which manufacture is the best” debate. Have the Chevys have those new RCR engines with Hendrick chassis and DEI bodies.
Toyota does it, the Ford teams are doing it, now its time for Chevy and Dodge to come play too.
it would be awsome to see the cars as strong as they were in 03 and 04. it would give hms a run for the money.
Why don’t they just freakin’ merge! Oh, wait, they can’t have that many cars on one team, so this is how they get away with it! Man, I don’t have a problem with everybody helping one another somewhat, but this is just ridiculous! The competition is tight enough already, now it’s just going to be impossible for these guys to gain an edge on other teams. NASCAR doesn’t care about the racing anymore, just the money. It’s sad.
If NASCAR cared about racing they WOULD NOT put a limit on themumber of cars that you can field under one stable.