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Best Buy Leaves Richard Petty for Jack Roush
Minneapolis – Best Buy Co. announced today that they were moving their NASCAR sponsorship from Richard Petty Motorsports to Roush Fenway Racing. Best Buy will serve as primary sponsor for Matt Kenseth for nine races and Carl Edwards for two races. Best Buy will also serve as associate sponsor for each car. “Best Buy is thrilled to announce this new NASCAR sponsorship deal with Roush Fenway Racing,” said Drew Panayiotou, senior vice president of marketing for … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Kellogg Returns as a Primary Sponsor of Carl Edwards’ No. 99 Ford
CONCORD, N.C. – Roush Fenway Racing and Kellogg Company have announced the multi-year extension of their NASCAR partnership. Kellogg will serve as a primary sponsor of the No. 99 Ford for four Sprint Cup races in 2012, teaming its famed Kellogg’s™ Frosted Flakes cereal and Cheez-It® crackers with perennial championship contender and fan favorite Carl Edwards. Kellogg has been involved with NASCAR for many years, including serving as a primary sponsor of … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Roush Fenway Racing Wins Five Year-End Awards at NASCAR Champions Week
LAS VEGAS – Roush Fenway Racing claimed five awards at Thursday’s NASCAR NMPA Myers Brothers Luncheon in Las Vegas. Carl Edwards won the Coors Light Pole Award, Bob Osborne earned the DIRECTV Crew Chief of the Year award, the No. 99 Aflac pit crew won the Mechanix Wear Most Valuable Pit Crew award, Matt Kenseth received the Growth Energy American Ethanol Green Flag Restart award and Roush Yates Engines took home the Mahle Engine Builder … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
NASCAR Awards Banquet Honors Four Champions
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – NASCAR’s future was front and center Monday night as four champions in two national series were crowned. Ricky Stenhouse Jr., 24 and Austin Dillon, 21, officially were proclaimed champions of the NASCAR Nationwide Series and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, respectively, on the Americana Ballroom stage at the Loews Miami Beach Hotel. Both were honored with their first NASCAR national series titles. Each became champion in the season following a rookie-of-the-year performance. Dillon … Read entire article »
Filed under: Nationwide Series, Truck Series
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. – Tale of a Champion
MIAMI – A year and a half ago Roush Fenway’s Ricky Stenhouse Jr., was fighting for his job in the No. 6 Roush Fenway Ford Mustang in the Nationwide Series . This weekend he heads into the NASCAR Nationwide Series finale with a 41-point lead and on the cusp of his first NASCAR Championship. “Ricky Stenhouse a year ago, was just a possibility,” said Roush Fenway co-owner Jack Roush. “He was not a reality for sure. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Nationwide Series
Roush Fenway Looks to Make Championship History at Homestead
CONCORD, N.C. – This weekend Jack Roush and Roush Fenway Racing will attempt to parlay one of its most successful seasons into NASCAR Championship history. RFR leads both the Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series point standings with only the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway standing in the way of the team and history. “Two-Thousand and eleven has been one of our best years ever,” said team co-owner Jack Roush. “We have had great technical support from … Read entire article »
Filed under: NASCAR
Point Leader Carl Edwards Looks to Help Roush Fenway to 300th Win
CONCORD, N.C. – NASCAR Sprint Cup point leader Carl Edwards moves into Texas Motor Speedway leading the Chase point standings for 21 weeks in 2011. In addition to his championship efforts, Edwards, who won the spring Nationwide event at Texas, will look to help move Roush Fenway Racing one (or two) step (s) closer to its historic 300th victory with another strong performance this weekend. Roush Fenway needs only two victories to reach the milestone victory … Read entire article »
Filed under: NASCAR
UPS Shifts To Associate Sponsorship With Roush Fenway Racing
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – NASCAR and UPS have signed a multi-year agreement for UPS to remain the sport’s Official Logistics Partner, providing critical pick-up and delivery services for race teams, vendors and suppliers at every NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event throughout the season. In addition to its official partnership, UPS will continue its relationship with Roush Fenway Racing as a full-season associate sponsor of Roush Fenway Racing’s No. 99 Ford, driven by Carl Edwards. The decision to … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Roush denies team orders, ‘We did not micromanage or dictate’
Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service Roush Fenway Racing co-owner Jack Roush said Tuesday there were no attempts to “micromanage” how Ford drivers raced, or whom they raced with, during the closing laps of Sunday’s Good Sam Club 500 at Talladega Superspeedway. “At Roush Fenway Racing we expect our individual drivers to make decisions that put themselves in the best position to win each and every race,” Roush said in a statement. “That is a philosophy that we have lived by for over two decades, and one that we will continue to abide by going forward. “Of course, as in any team, we would prefer for our drivers to work together when possible. However, to be clear, we did not micromanage or dictate to any of our drivers, nor any other Ford drivers, how … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
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