Roush Fenway Racing would like to move lone Truck team to Nationwide Series
By Bob Pockrass - Associate Editor
Monday, June 22, 2009
SONOMA, Calif. – Roush Fenway Racing would like to put all three of its development drivers in the Nationwide Series next year, team President Geoff Smith says.
Smith said Sunday that the perfect plan would involve moving Roush Fenway’s lone Camping World Truck Series team with Colin Braun to Nationwide to form one team and use two of its current teams to run Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Erik Darnell full time in the series.
“We are sure we want them in Nationwide,” Smith said. “We’re working really hard in keeping a full employment scenario at Roush Fenway Racing going into next year, which requires the Colin program to convert from a Truck program to a Nationwide program.”
Darnell is racing in 15 Nationwide races this year, while Stenhouse is doing seven.
“We’ve got an option even if we had a Nationwide program for one, we’d like to offer having the other two split the car and have a mini-gong show, where the winner gets the deal the following year and we lose somebody if it doesn’t work out,” Smith said. “In a worst-case scenario [it] would be having one program for all three and have a gong-show scenario.
“That was real good publicity when we did the ‘Driver X’ program, so we’re trying to figure out a little extra edge for the sponsorship.”
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benflorance said:
Jun 22, 2009 at 4:38 PMthe only thing that would complicate this is if carl decides to be selfish again and run full time...i really hope he doesnt b/c he would be taking seat time from one of the three talented young drivers listed above
Report as Abusethe whole gong show thing could be interesting if there is sponsorship for only one car (which i doubt) or carl will run full time again but i think those drivers need the full season
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» Confirm Abuse Reportjbbigrod said:
Jun 22, 2009 at 7:04 PMI would like to see Carl run again. However, I don't like taking Colin out of truck, as I like to watch the trucks, but not when there isn't a Ford running. A Ford that competes, that is.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportPhoenix987 said:
Jun 22, 2009 at 7:53 PMRoush needs to realize that while Carl may win and might be 'good' for the NW series, that if he is going to get the future of RFR going that he needs to start putting his drivers in the NW cars to get them seat time. Stenhouse running 7 races in NW and Darnell running 15 isn't exactly enough seat time for them to get any better.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportSheilaLovesNASCAR said:
Jun 22, 2009 at 8:38 PMI agree. Take Carl out of it full time. Give them each their own car. But I do like Colin in Trucks. And would hate it if Roush Fenway got out of trucks. Can't Colin race in all the trucks and in all the NW races that are at the same track as the trucks?
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