Question: What does it mean for Roush Fenway Racing to compete at Homestead during what is billed as Ford Championship Weekend?
Jack Roush: The other racetracks for the most part are tied up with other manufacturers in terms of space and endorsements. To be able to have our manufacturer enjoy that bit of exposure at the last race of the year, on the championship weekend, is a really good thing for me.
We’ve had great luck at Homestead. We’ve won three or four or five times there. So we enjoy going there because we’re used to winning there. We’ve won two championships that wound up there, and would like to have a third.
Question: No matter what happens regarding that, won’t you look back on this season with great satisfaction in terms of what you’ve accomplished?
Jack Roush: We’ve done everything that we’ve hoped to do. We’ve run better than in years when we’ve typically won championships. We’ve won more races and run better as an organization than in either 2003 or 2004. And certainly as we look at the year, we won’t say we missed [the championship] because we went the wrong direction on stuff—strategies, or as far as engineering is concerned. Our engineering has been great; Ford support has been great for the engineering. Our teams performed well.
It just hasn’t worked out for us on the racetrack [with a championship]. The result is something you cannot absolutely determine based on preparation and opportunity, or execution, and we’ve been on the bottom side of that this year. We’ve just been involved in wrecks and had some mechanical things happen that we could not anticipate, and that’s put us where we are.
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