oldsoldier's Blog

Jack Roush is at it again, looking for the boogy man under the bed, but in Jack's case the boogy man speaks with a Japanese accent. A Toyota team, Michael Waltrip Racing, wound up with a sway bar belonging to one of Roush's teams by mistake, and he is yelling intellectual espionage. NASCAR, and other teams and drivers, all say this sort of thing happens in the garage area at the different tracks because of tight quarters, and the large number of people and parts in the area. But Jack says no, it is deliberate, Toyota is after him. When Toyota first announced it was coming to NASCAR, Jack has cried foul, knowing that Toyota would up the ante, and make other teams spend more and work harder, no other car owner complained. Jack says he has never stolen anything from another team, which may be true, unless you count all the sponsors that he has taken from other, smaller teams. But when you run 5 teams, you need a lot of sponsors. NASCAR has a limit of four teams per owner, but Jack has maintained 5, even though NASCAR has demanded he get rid of one for several years now. Any other team doing this would be dealt with harshly, but NASCAR hasn't done anything yet. And on top of all that, a sixth team sprang up across the street from Roush's shops with very little visible support, curious. Roush has forged alliances with other teams, Yates, and the Wood brothers, and somehow the other guys wind up on the short end of the stick. Yates' cars are running with no sponsors, something that can't go on for long, and the Wood brothers can barely make the races, but Jack's teams just keep running with multiple sponsors. Of course they get an assist from time to time from an illeagle part or lack of one. Carl Edwards, Jack's golden boy, won a race, and was found to have the lid  missing from the oil tank container inside the car, an aerodynamic advantage. They lost points and money on that one, and Jack couldn't even contest it, because they were caught red handed. A team that would leave that lid off, could very easily misplace a sway bar in the garage area, and it was Edwards car that the sway bar was from. Maybe Jack just needs to shut up with the accusations, and clean up his own act. And maybe Ford needs to look out for some of their other team owners, before Jack is the only card in their hand.