Jack Roush says no decision made concerning 2010 Cup team lineup
Co-owner Jack Roush says that no decision has been made concerning which Roush Fenway Racing team will leave his organization in 2010. // David Griffin, NASCAR Scene
AVONDALE, Ariz. – Team co-owner Jack Roush said Friday that no decision had been made regarding what his organization’s NASCAR Sprint Cup team lineup would look like in 2010.
Jamie McMurray, currently one of five Roush Fenway Racing Cup drivers, has been mentioned in media reports as the likely choice to go elsewhere, most likely to join Yates Racing next season.
Roush Fenway Racing currently fields five NASCAR Sprint Cup Series teams, but per changes to NASCAR’s competition policy instituted in 2006, Cup ownership groups can have a maximum of four teams. Because of sponsorship agreements in place at the time of the policy change, Roush’s organization was “grandfathered in” until the end of 2009.
Yates Racing, which like Roush Fenway fields Ford entries, has a technical alliance with RFR. The Yates group began the season with three teams – fielding cars for Bobby Labonte (through an alliance with Hall of Fame Racing), Paul Menard and Travis Kvapil – but recently shut down Kvapil’s team due to a lack of sponsorship.
“That is premature,” Roush said of one recent report which said McMurray’s team was expected to be dumped. “And if I had something to
announce, there would be something written on the shelf back there [in the media center].
“We’re not thinking about next year yet, we’re thinking about this year. Certainly there was nothing that has happened in the last week that is noteworthy or newsworthy and I wouldn’t care to speculate.”
In addition to McMurray’s team, Roush Fenway Racing also fields Cup teams for drivers Greg Biffle, Carl Edwards, Matt Kenseth and David Ragan.
