Matt Kenseth joins Roush, and will be a giant help to drivers like Ricky Stenhouse boy. and Trevor Bayne
TALLADEGA, Ala. — Ricky Stenhouse boy. will currently adjoin a similar guy he turned to for recommendation occasionally as a young driver making an attempt to create it to the Cup Series.
He’s hoping the hiring of Matt Kenseth , and a come back to Talladega Superspeedway, play much-needed boosts for troubled Roush Fenway athletics on.
The 30-year-old Stenhouse’s ending at Talladega last spring was the primary Cup win of his automobileeer and place a Roush car within the playoffs, that was no tiny achievement for the organization.
“I would really like to copy what we have a tendency to were ready to do last year with qualifying on the pole then winning the race,” he said. “That is what we have a tendency to dropped here to try and do.”
Roush might use a jolt of confidence. Once thought-about among the highest groups within the garage, Roush drivers won fifteen races in 2005 and had 5 cars end within the high ten within the standings.
But that domination declined over the following decade, and Roush’s high drivers all emotional on to completely different groups.
Although Stenhouse added a second ending last season, at Daytona in Gregorian calendar month, the organization has not won something however restrictor-plate races since 2014.
Now Kenseth has return on board to share the No. six Ford with Trevor Bayne, United Nations agency has seen a drop by performance through the primary 9 races.
Stenhouse has been higher, however has had to travel to a backup automobile in 3 of the primary 9 races this season as a result of he crashed in follow sessions. He has one top-5 end this season, is nineteenth within the standings, and wishes to enhance on one.5-mile tracks to licitly contend for a championship.
Stenhouse is grasp the come back of Kenseth, United Nations agency worked with him some in what's currently the Xfinity Series.
“He would run a few races with North American nation throughout the year and he was in our Cup cars,” Stenhouse aforesaid. “I leaned on Matt lots my tyro year within the Nationwide Series. I referred to as him and would raise him queries making an attempt to work out after I was troubled.
“I assume he did a very smart job with Pine Tree State thereon. therefore quick forward to currently, when he left and visited (Joe Josiah Willard Gibbs Racing) and drove completely different race cars, on behalf of me i'm wanting forward to his feedback on however our cars drive relative to a different organization that's clearly one in all the category of the sphere.”
Kenseth’s debut are next month at Kansas Speedway, a 1.5-mile track. Roush is hoping he’ll have a positive impact on Bayne and Stenhouse.
“Our goal is to own Trevor still grow and mature on the track,” Roush team president Steve Newmark aforesaid. “We hope that Matt’s help with all of this may elevate not solely Trevor’s performance, however additionally Ricky’s performance.”
ARCA: Zane Smith edged Joseph Stephanie Graf boy. on the second overtime lap to win a crash-filled race at Talladega.
Smith won for the second time within the past 3 races however this one came by .029 seconds as he and Stephanie Graf raced aspect by aspect throughout the overtime lap.
• NASCAR has nonheritable the mollusk genus series, a platform for drivers wanting to succeed in stock automobile racing’s high level.
NASCAR chairperson and govt vice chairman Jim France referred to as the announcement Fri “a huge moment for stock auto racing in America.”
ARCA can operate beneath its current structure through 2019, as well as 9 events at NASCAR venues this year. Its stops embody Talladega, Daytona International Speedway and Pocono.