Sprint All-Star Race winner, #99-Carl Edwards, contract expires at the end of the season. After Saturday’s victory, both the driver and his boss said little about where talks stand for 2012 and beyond.
“All I’ll say about that is we’re running really well right now and it’s because of Jack Roush and Ford and all these people’s hard work, and those talks are going on behind closed doors,” said Edwards. “We’ll hopefully get something done, but right now we’re running well and that is fun and what I’m trying to do is focus on that because we have a championship to win this year. That’s the number one goal.”
“We’re trying to maintain the focus on keeping our season together,” said Roush Fenway Racing founder and co-owner Jack Roush. “We want to put ourselves in the best situation we can to make a championship run, to be in the top 10 and then to make a championship run in the closing months of the year. It’s going on behind closed doors. With some accuracy I say I really don’t do the money and I try to stay out of the money part of it, but I will have to pay attention to this deal as it gets closer, but it’s not something we’re gonna debate or discuss in the public. It’s not a media issue, it’s a private business issue that’s ongoing.”(SPEED)(5-23-2011)
