Roush Fenway Racing would like to move lone Truck team to Nationwide Series
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.”
