The NASCAR media named #17-Matt Kenseth’s 2003 NASCAR Cup Championship as the top moment in Roush Fenway’s ’25 Winning Years.’ The 2003 Championship won the vote, much in the same fashion as Kenseth meticulously dominated the 2003 season, receiving almost 50 percent of the vote. As part of the launch of Roush Fenway’s ’25 Winning Years’ program, media were asked to vote for the team’s top moment at its stop last week on the annual NASCAR media tour at Charlotte Motor Speedway. On display at the event were over 50 trophies from Roush Fenway’s 299 wins, including a trophy set as the centerpiece of each of the 25 tables at the venue. ‘We have had a lot of big moments over the past 24 years,’ said team co-owner Jack Roush, who founded the team in 1988. ‘Matt Kenseth winning our first Cup championship in 2003 ranks up there for sure. Roush Fenway is the last team to win the NASCAR Winston Cup championship under the old point system and a year later became the first team to win under the ‘Chase’ system with Kurt Busch hoisting the inaugural Nextel Cup trophy in 2004. Busch’s 2004 championship along with Kenseth’s 2009 Daytona 500 win, Biffle’s 2000 Truck Series Championship (Roush Fenway’s first) and Mark Martin’s 1989 win at Rockingham (the team’s first) all received several votes in the poll.(Roush Fenway Racing)(2-8-2012)
