Roush Fenway Racing’s fortunes hinge on redesigned Ford car
1/6/14, 08:50 AM
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Roush Fenway Racing’s fortunes hinge on redesigned Ford car
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The majority of Roush's struggles in 2013 can be traced directly to the problems the Ford teams battled as a whole. Continually outpaced by its rivals, Ford finished a distant third in the manufacturers championship behind Chevrolet and Toyota. And on the year, drivers with a blue oval on their hood won just six of 36 races.
To decipher the inadequacies of the Ford Fusion would go a long way to solving the woes Roush experienced a year ago. On that front the manufacturer has redesigned its nose with the intent of improving aerodynamics and airflow into the engine. The old design tended to collect trash on the grille, which caused the engine to overheat and in turn, created some terse exchanges between Edwards and Biffle over the definition of being a good teammate.
Another area that could improve the performance of Roush is increased cohesiveness with Penske Racing — the other mainstay team in the Ford stable. The manufacturer brought Penske on last year to give them another championship-caliber team, and stressed the importance of both outfits working as one. And while the dynamic between the two teams did improve, information wasn't always flowing freely between two, especially initially.
The majority of Roush's struggles in 2013 can be traced directly to the problems the Ford teams battled as a whole. Continually outpaced by its rivals, Ford finished a distant third in the manufacturers championship behind Chevrolet and Toyota. And on the year, drivers with a blue oval on their hood won just six of 36 races.
To decipher the inadequacies of the Ford Fusion would go a long way to solving the woes Roush experienced a year ago. On that front the manufacturer has redesigned its nose with the intent of improving aerodynamics and airflow into the engine. The old design tended to collect trash on the grille, which caused the engine to overheat and in turn, created some terse exchanges between Edwards and Biffle over the definition of being a good teammate.
Another area that could improve the performance of Roush is increased cohesiveness with Penske Racing — the other mainstay team in the Ford stable. The manufacturer brought Penske on last year to give them another championship-caliber team, and stressed the importance of both outfits working as one. And while the dynamic between the two teams did improve, information wasn't always flowing freely between two, especially initially.
1/9/14, 10:27 AM
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I went to the link and read the whole article and felt most of it was BS. A team like Roush does not have the financial resources to make things happen quickly. The Hendrick and Toyota teams have the money to throw at any problem immediately. It had to be difficult for Roush Racing to get enough feedback about the performance of their race cars because they had too few teams to draw information from. Penske Racing was new to the Ford body so they would not have the knowledge and experience with the Ford race cars to be of much help to Roush Racing. It would be ridiculous to think Penske Racing would be able to immediately cure all problems with the Ford race cars. Ford may have had some problem with air flowing properly in the front of the race car, but mostly they need to have more big teams with huge financial resources to quickly attack any deficiencies in their race cars performance.
Last edited by 2 Go Snake; 1/9/14 at 10:28 AM.
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