Roush Comments on the Restrictor Plate Racing:

Jack Roush might have a new lease on life, and the accompanying attitude that a near death experience brings, but Roush has no love in his heart for the racing venues known as Daytona International Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway. Roush can rattle-off reason after reason why restrictor plate racing should become a thing of the past, including: • Four races of the year cost the same as a whole program • He’s tired of hauling wrecked cars home from such tracks • He dislikes requiring his drivers endure the experience. But, Roush sums-up the entire exercise — taxing. Add the new no call from NASCAR angle from last week’s Talladega race, where Roush had a vested interest in the winner, and he just shakes his head. “Five teams is probably a fifteen million dollar proposition,” Roush said regarding the investment that is made to prepare Mark Martin’s, Jeff Burton’s, Matt Kenseth’s, Kurt Busch’s and Greg Biffle’s cars for probable destruction on a plate track.(See full story at Ford Racing )(4-14-2003)