dpkimmel2001
Team Owner
What do you think? Jack Roush would like to see teams get 8 testing sessions per year. He blames the lack of testing on the reason his program is falling behind. I don't understand why it affects him more than any other car owner.
Car owner Jack Roush wants NASCAR to lift its ban on testing at tracks where the Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series race and instead give each team eight test sessions a year.
"That would give you a chance to test at all the race tracks, at all the different kinds of tracks: the short tracks, the intermediate tracks, the restrictor tracks and the road race tracks," said Roush, whose teams have yet to win a race this season. "That would give you a chance to test at all those with every driver and every car enough so that every crew chief would have for himself his idea of what he needed and not just to have to rely on the simulations that the engineers would propose."
Computer simulation programs are the root of Roush's problems, he believes. Roush wants more testing, in part, because he's not happy with the results from his organization's computer simulation programs. Without the testing, Roush notes his teams are behind when they arrive at the track.
"We're starting off with not as good a setup in the car, based on simulations," he said.
Although Roush Fenway Racing has one win in the past 48 Cup races, it has three of its four drivers in the top 12 in points - Matt Kenseth is fourth, Carl Edwards is ninth and Greg Biffle is 10th - as the series heads to Michigan this weekend.
NASCAR cut testing at tracks it competes on beginning in 2009 to save owners money as the economy soured. Some car owners remain against lifting the ban, saying that it will force them to spend more money.
Car owner Jack Roush wants NASCAR to lift its ban on testing at tracks where the Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series race and instead give each team eight test sessions a year.
"That would give you a chance to test at all the race tracks, at all the different kinds of tracks: the short tracks, the intermediate tracks, the restrictor tracks and the road race tracks," said Roush, whose teams have yet to win a race this season. "That would give you a chance to test at all those with every driver and every car enough so that every crew chief would have for himself his idea of what he needed and not just to have to rely on the simulations that the engineers would propose."
Computer simulation programs are the root of Roush's problems, he believes. Roush wants more testing, in part, because he's not happy with the results from his organization's computer simulation programs. Without the testing, Roush notes his teams are behind when they arrive at the track.
"We're starting off with not as good a setup in the car, based on simulations," he said.
Although Roush Fenway Racing has one win in the past 48 Cup races, it has three of its four drivers in the top 12 in points - Matt Kenseth is fourth, Carl Edwards is ninth and Greg Biffle is 10th - as the series heads to Michigan this weekend.
NASCAR cut testing at tracks it competes on beginning in 2009 to save owners money as the economy soured. Some car owners remain against lifting the ban, saying that it will force them to spend more money.
