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Joey Logano has essentially the same thoughts about last year’s drama with Matt Kenseth as the driver of the No. 20 car does: No regrets and let’s move on.

 
“I can’t speak for anyone else. I feel like there’s only one person who can judge me, and it’s no one standing across from me right now,” Logano said, indicating the throng of reporters surrounding him during the Charlotte Motor Speedway Media Tour on Wednesday. I know there are some things I need to work on as a person, and I try to work on that every day.
 
Patience is not one of Logano’s virtues, he admits, saying he’s really eager to get back into the race car at Daytona. But he’s not apologizing for his Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup win at Kansas, where he spun leader Kenseth in the closing laps, or how he handled himself the rest of the 2015 season.

RELATED: Recap Logano’s 2015 season
 
Logano said he and teammate Brad Keselowski are both passionate, competitive drivers, and nothing about that is going to change. He wants to win another Sprint Cup title for Roger Penske, and Team Penske‘s 50th anniversary year would be a great time for that. And just maybe duking it out with Kenseth during the 2015 Chase can help Logano as a competitor.
 
“People are drawn to the negative side, but there are a lot of positives,” Logano said. “Maybe as a positive thinker, that’s how I get through life, but I want to look at the positives like ‘where did I grow from this whole thing, internally as a person or externally as what we do as a race team and how we gained a lot of fans through this whole thing?'”
 
“I’m proud of how we handled everything, and the way my fans supported me is greatly appreciated.”
 
Kenseth, too, said his fans had weighed in heavily during the offseason.
 
“I’ve got to be honest. I’ve had more fan support in the last three months than I’ve ever had in my life,” Kenseth said Tuesday during JGR’s media tour availability. “But this isn’t a popularity contest, it’s about winning.”
 
Logano said one aspect of the feud — and fans’ reactions to it — was amusing. When he went to Talladega Superspeedway the week after Kansas and received a rousing chorus of boos from the crowd, he said it reminded him of Jeff Gordon‘s usual reception at the Alabama track. “Hey, at least I have one thing in common with Jeff Gordon!”

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RELATED: Kenseth revisits Logano incident



Joey Logano has essentially the same thoughts about last year’s drama with Matt Kenseth as the driver of the No. 20 car does: No regrets and let’s move on.

 
“I can’t speak for anyone else. I feel like there’s only one person who can judge me, and it’s no one standing across from me right now,” Logano said, indicating the throng of reporters surrounding him during the Charlotte Motor Speedway Media Tour on Wednesday. I know there are some things I need to work on as a person, and I try to work on that every day.
 
Patience is not one of Logano’s virtues, he admits, saying he’s really eager to get back into the race car at Daytona. But he’s not apologizing for his Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup win at Kansas, where he spun leader Kenseth in the closing laps, or how he handled himself the rest of the 2015 season.

RELATED: Recap Logano’s 2015 season
 
Logano said he and teammate Brad Keselowski are both passionate, competitive drivers, and nothing about that is going to change. He wants to win another Sprint Cup title for Roger Penske, and Team Penske‘s 50th anniversary year would be a great time for that. And just maybe duking it out with Kenseth during the 2015 Chase can help Logano as a competitor.
 
“People are drawn to the negative side, but there are a lot of positives,” Logano said. “Maybe as a positive thinker, that’s how I get through life, but I want to look at the positives like ‘where did I grow from this whole thing, internally as a person or externally as what we do as a race team and how we gained a lot of fans through this whole thing?'”
 
“I’m proud of how we handled everything, and the way my fans supported me is greatly appreciated.”
 
Kenseth, too, said his fans had weighed in heavily during the offseason.
 
“I’ve got to be honest. I’ve had more fan support in the last three months than I’ve ever had in my life,” Kenseth said Tuesday during JGR’s media tour availability. “But this isn’t a popularity contest, it’s about winning.”
 
Logano said one aspect of the feud — and fans’ reactions to it — was amusing. When he went to Talladega Superspeedway the week after Kansas and received a rousing chorus of boos from the crowd, he said it reminded him of Jeff Gordon‘s usual reception at the Alabama track. “Hey, at least I have one thing in common with Jeff Gordon!”

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Jan. 20, 2016) — The world will be coming to Daytona International Speedway for the grand opening of its motorsports stadium, with a solid international field set for the debut race of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship: the 54th Rolex 24 At Daytona on Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 30-31.

A 54-car field with drivers representing 24 countries serves as the opening race for Daytona Rising, the $400 million reimagining of the historic venue. In addition to kicking off the WeatherTech Championship, the race also will open the four-race Tequila Patrón North American Endurance Cup.

“As the International Motor Sports Association, we take great pride in having strong international representation in the Rolex 24 At Daytona,” said IMSA CEO Ed Bennett. “We are fortunate to have an outstanding field of drivers, teams and manufacturers representing every corner of the world join us for this year’s race. The eyes of the racing world truly will be on Daytona International Speedway during the Rolex 24 At Daytona. Between the debut of many awe-inspiring race cars and being the first race in the Daytona International Speedway motorsports stadium, the view will be spectacular.”

Daytona International Speedway founder Bill France Sr. envisioned sports car racing as bringing international recognition to his venue with the running of the inaugural Daytona Continental in 1962, an event expanded to 24 hours in 1966.

Now, 50 years later, that event has grown into the Rolex 24 At Daytona. The field will include 12 world-class automotive manufacturers across the four classes, reigniting decades-long rivalries in addition to building new ones.

In the Prototype category, the battle for the overall victory will include the classic Ford vs. Chevrolet rivalry, but will be expanded to include Honda, Mazda, Nissan and BMW-powered prototypes, in addition to the one-of-a-kind DeltaWing. Ford and Chevy have split the overall victories the past two years, but if speeds at the recent Roar Before The Rolex 24 At Daytona were any indication, any one of the 13 entries in the Prototype class could feasibly pull into Victory Lane on the afternoon of Sunday, Jan. 31.

The GT Le Mans (GTLM) class features the pair of Corvette C7.Rs that won the Rolex 24 At Daytona, Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Fueled by Fresh From Florida and 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2015, as well as the defending WeatherTech Championship GTLM championship-winning Porsche North America team.

However, many sports car racing headlines over the past year have gone to the new Ford GT program, which makes its competition debut in the Rolex 24 At Daytona with a two-car effort fielded by Ford Chip Ganassi Racing. The return of the Ford GT begins a new chapter in the Ford-Chevrolet battle, while also reigniting a 50-year-old Ford vs. Ferrari fight. The field also will include a pair of brand-new BMW M6 GTLM race cars from BMW Team RLL.

The GT Daytona (GTD) class, which has adopted full FIA GT3 technical regulations in 2016, features a 22-car field and seven different manufacturers. Familiar GTD brands Audi, Porsche and BMW all will debut brand-new race cars in the Rolex 24, alongside updated machinery from Ferrari, Dodge and Aston Martin. Joining the GTD fray this year for the first time will be Lamborghini, with five Huracáns in a field stacked with manufacturer, team and driver talent.

In Prototype Challenge (PC), eight teams and a host of strong driver lineups will battle it out for class honors.

In total, all but three of the 54 entries feature driver lineups with mixed nationalities. The United States has the most drivers entered with 87, while Germany leads the list of visiting countries with 23 drivers represented in the preliminary Rolex 24 entry. Great Britain is next with 19 drivers, followed by Italy, 16; France, nine; and Canada, seven. Austria, Brazil and Mexico are each represented by six drivers.

Four female drivers are set to compete in this year’s race. British driver Katherine Legge returns to the No. 0 Panoz DeltaWing Racing coupe in the Prototype class. Competing in GT Daytona (GTD) are German Sabine Schmitz in the No. 30 Frikadelli Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R; Christina Nielsen of Denmark in the No. 63 Scuderia Corsa Ferrari 458 GT3; and American Ashley Freiberg in the No. 96 Turner Motorsport BMW M6 GT3.

Practice for the Rolex 24 At Daytona begins the morning of Thursday, Jan. 28, with qualifying taking place later than afternoon. The weekend also includes the BMW Performance 200; the opening round of the IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge, on Friday at 1:45 p.m. Television coverage of the Rolex 24 gets underway on Saturday at 2 p.m. ET on FS1.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Team Penske kicked off its 50th season Wednesday night with a private function in the Crown Ballroom of the Charlotte Convention Center.

 

Forty-two drivers, all Penske people at one time or another, from the open-wheel, stock car and road racing ranks were among the 1,000 or so expected to be on hand to help team owner Roger Penske celebrate the milestone.

 

The white-haired, soon-to-be 79-year-old Penske has no plans to go gently into the night, however.

 

“I don’t know when I’m going to leave the sport. It will probably be pretty abrupt when I do,” Penske said during the second day of the annual Charlotte Motor Speedway Media Tour. “I’m counting on this legacy will continue on.

 

“My sons and our family love the sport, it’s a … common thread through the company so there’s no reason not to be involved. If we can sustain the sponsorship and the key people stay with us and will continue to help us we can go on forever and I don’t see any reason we can’t do that.”

 

In NASCAR, Penske teams have won 147 times, including 93 in the premier series. Brad Keselowski, who along with Joey Logano makes up the organization’s Sprint Cup lineup, scored Penske’s first NASCAR premier series title in 2012.

 

His organization has won 181 times in IndyCar, a total that includes 16 victories in the Indianapolis 500.

 

“His work ethic is what you would expect from a 25-year-old man and then some,” Keselowski said. “There have been countless times where I wake up in the morning, slept longer than (normal) and the first thing that enters my mind is ‘Gosh, Roger beat me to work by a long way.’

 

“He motivates me to work harder. He pushes me in direction that I didn’t think of before. He has such a deep understanding on so many levels of what it takes to be successful that I find myself constantly trying to emulate him. …

 

“He really just amazes me more than anything else with some of the things he does.”

 

In addition to Keselowski and Logano, among those finding NASCAR success with Penske have been Mark Donohue (the organization’s first stock-car winner), NASCAR Hall of Fame members Bobby Allison and Rusty Wallace, as well as Ryan Newman and Kurt Busch.

 

RELATED: See some of Penske’s best drivers through the years

 

His lieutenants ensure that his racing entities run like clockwork and although racing is just one of his many successful business endeavors it has proven to be a crucial part.

 

“Racing has given me the opportunity to compete on a world-wide stage,” he said. “It shows execution, it shows we can handle adversity … there’s no question that the partnerships that I’ve been able to generate with the OEMS from my business have been amazing. Without racing I would have never had the connection in the automobile business and that’s really the heart of my company.”

 

The focus on the 50th year celebration has generated much interest among those inside the organization and helped fill in a picture for those who have been part of the amazing run.

 

“It seems like I learn a little more every day as we’ve gone through talking about the … anniversary,” Paul Wolfe, crew chief for Keselowski, said. “And being able to be a part of things with Rusty and Rick (Mears) and just all the amazing people that have been able to work and be a part of the history with Penske, I’m just a small part of that. I’m fortunate that I’ve been able to.”

 

Success in the stock car ranks came slowly and Penske left the series briefly, from 1978-79, before returning for two races with Wallace in 1980. The return was short-lived; he left again and didn’t return for a decade.

 

With IROC, Can-Am, IndyCar, “and some sports car stuff,” Penske said, “our plate was full. And costs were escalating.”

 

“Everybody in the world wanted to drive for Roger,” Wallace said. “For me to be able to drive the car in 1980, I thought that was my big break and that I had made it.”

 

Wallace returned nearly 10 years later, in ’91, with much more experience and a championship under his belt. And Penske was ready. The organization hasn’t missed a step since.

 

A celebration of five decades covers a lot of ground. But Penske insists the end isn’t in sight.

 

“I will be at the races as long as I can stand up,” he said. “We’re there for one reason and that’s to win.”

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Sitting amongst racing royalty — and his new boss — and talking about his transition from Richard Childress Racing to Richard Petty Motorsports, Brian Scott displayed confidence and appeared ready for his first full-time season in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.

“I’m optimistic, I really am … there’s a lot of really exciting things happening,” Scott said during the Charlotte Motor Speedway Media Tour on Wednesday morning.

The 28-year-old not only locked in a deal with RPM, but he will also wheel the iconic No. 44 Ford after the organization recently announced plans to bring back the number.

“The King” spoke during the media tour about the importance of the No. 44 returning to the RPM family. “We’re really bringing the number home, I guess is what we’re looking at,” he said.

RELATED: Petty brings back iconic number to Cup Series

Scott echoed the family-oriented theme by saying, “This sport, and Richard Petty Motorsports especially, was built on family … something I am very proud (to be a part) of.”

The addition of Scott, a native of Boise, Idaho, comes with news that Idaho-based companies Albertsons Companies and Shore Lodge are partnering up with the No. 44 as primary sponsors for 16 races and associate sponsors for 20 races.

RELATED: See the new look of Scott’s ride

Scott will pair with crew chief Chris Heroy, formerly with the No. 42 team of Kyle Larson and Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates.

“Chris (Heroy) has worked with some of our boys before and everybody knew him. He’s well respected from our end of the deal,” Petty said. “We felt like that being a new driver and a new crew, then they could learn together.”

Heroy and Scott have already had conversations on how to have a consistent and competitive season, all while racing for the Sunoco Rookie of the Year honor — something Heroy helped Larson achieve in 2014.

Some realistic goals the pair have lined up for 2016 are, “Top-15 (results), finishing races on the lead lap and stealing finishes when we can and being aggressive,” Heroy said in a laid-back demeanor.

Scott said racing amongst the Cup veterans will not be a “cakewalk” but revealed, with a smirk on his face, “I like a good challenge and I think that we’re up to it.”

And with Heroy’s calm voice in his ear, Scott is ready to embark on his rookie year.

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FAST FACTS: Changes coming for 2016 | READ: Drivers react to 2016 changes

In 2016, an elimination-style playoff format was introduced into the Camping World Truck Series. We are here to help with a quick rundown on how the system works. 

 

THE SEEDING

A win in the first 16 races all but guarantees a driver entry into the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Chase, provided the driver is in the top 20 in points (note: previously, this was top 30) and has attempted to qualify for each race.


Each of the eight drivers who qualifies for the playoffs starts with 2,000 points, plus bonus playoff points earned during the regular season. After the bonus points for wins are added, drivers are ranked in order of the reset points.

 

THE ROUNDS

 

Round of 8: The eight drivers will take the track at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Las Vegas Motor Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway for the six spots available in the next round. A win at any of the three tracks equals advancement into the next round. The remaining available positions (1-6) that have not been filled by wins will be filled on points. 

 

Tiebreaker: If any position comes down to a tiebreaker, only the three races in the Round of 8 matter. Wins and finishes in the regular season won’t, so the drivers will need to run up front to challenge for the win. If they can’t win, they’ll need to have more second-place finishes, third-place finishes, etc. than their competitors in order to break the tie and advance. If two drivers have the exact same finishes, the tiebreaker then goes to the driver who scored the best finish first.

 

Round of 6: The six remaining drivers will have their points reset to 3,000, then have their bonus points added to the total, and take the track at Martinsville Speedway, Texas Motor Speedway and Phoenix International Raceway. Again, a win at any of the three tracks automatically advances the driver to the next round (Round of 4). The remaining available positions (1-4) will be filled on points. 

 

Tiebreaker: If any position comes down to a tiebreaker, only the three races in the Round of 6 matter. Wins and finishes in the regular season won’t, so the drivers will need to run up front to challenge for the win. If they can’t win, they’ll need to have more second-place finishes, third-place finishes, etc. than their competitors in order to break the tie and advance. If two drivers have the exact same finishes, the tiebreaker then goes to the driver who scored the best finish first.

 

Round of 4: The four drivers who advance to the Championship 4 at Homestead-Miami Speedway will have their points reset to 4,000. The highest finishing Championship 4 driver will win be crowned the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Champion. 

 

THE NASCAR CAMPING WORLD TRUCK SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP


The final race is all about order of finish. No bonus points for laps led, etc. The four finalists will start the race tied, and the highest finisher among them at Homestead-Miami Speedway will win the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Championship.

 

THE POINTS
Drivers who don’t advance to the next round will have their point totals reset to the Chase-start base of 2,000 (with any regular-season wins bonus points), plus the additional points they’ve earned during the Chase. The idea, which was actually a driver-led suggestion, is that those eliminated from the postseason still have something to race for — fifth place. A driver eliminated in the opening Round of 8, for example, can still finish ranked higher than someone who just misses the Championship Round cut.

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FAST FACTS: Changes coming for 2016 | READ: Drivers react to 2016 changes

Elimination-style playoffs have arrived for the NASCAR XFINITY Series. We’re here to help with a quick refresher on how the playoff system works and how it’s unique for the XFINITY Series.

 

THE SEEDING

A win in the first 26 races all but guarantees a driver entry into the NASCAR XFINITY Series Chase, provided the driver is in the top 20 in points (note: previous, this was top 30) and has attempted to qualify for each race. Drivers who win two Dash 4 Cash bonuses are also all but guaranteed a Chase berth.

 

Each of the 12 drivers who qualifies for the Chase Grid starts with 2,000 points, plus in addition playoff bonus points accrued during the regular season.

 

THE ROUNDS

Round of 12: The first round consists of the races at Kentucky, Dover, and Charlotte. If a driver wins a race in the Round of 12, the driver automatically advances to the next round. The remaining available positions (1-8) that have not been filled by wins will be filled on points.  New for 2017 is that bonus points earned during the regular season carry over each round of the postseason.

 

Tiebreaker: If any position comes down to a tiebreaker, only the three races in the Round of 12 matter. Wins and finishes in the regular season won’t, so the drivers will need to run up front to challenge for the win. If they can’t win, they’ll need to have more second-place finishes, third-place finishes, etc. than their competitors in order to break the tie and advance. If two drivers have the exact same finishes, the tiebreaker then goes to the driver who scored the best finish first.

 

Round of 8: Each driver who advances to the next round (Kansas, Texas, Phoenix) then will have their points reset to 3,000. Drivers who win a race in the Round of 8 automatically advance to the Championship 4. The remaining available positions (1-4) that have not been filled by wins will be filled on points. 

 

Tiebreaker: If any position comes down to a tiebreaker, only the three races in the Round of 8 matter. Wins and finishes in the regular season won’t, so the drivers will need to run up front to challenge for the win. If they can’t win, they’ll need to have more second-place finishes, third-place finishes, etc. than their competitors in order to break the tie and advance. If two drivers have the exact same finishes, the tiebreaker then goes to the driver who scored the best finish first.

 

Championship 4: The four drivers who advance to the Championship 4 at Homestead will have their points reset to 4,000. The highest finishing Championship 4 driver will be crowned the NASCAR XFINITY Series champion.

THE NASCAR XFINITY SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP


The final race is all about order of finish. No bonus points for laps led, etc. The four finalists will start the race tied, and the highest finisher among them at Homestead-Miami Speedway will win the NASCAR XFINITY Series Championship.

 

THE POINTS
Drivers who don’t advance to the next round will have their point totals reset to the Chase-start base of 2,000 (with any regular-season wins bonus points), plus the additional points they’ve earned during the Chase. The idea, which was actually a driver-led suggestion, is that those eliminated from the postseason still have something to race for — fifth place. A driver eliminated in the opening Round of 12, for example, can still finish ranked higher than someone who just misses the Championship Round cut.

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Three-time NASCAR premier series champion Tony Stewart is set to retire from full-time Sprint Cup Series competition following the 2016 season, and — much like we saw last year with Jeff Gordon — the tributes will be coming fast and furiously over the next 10 months.



Joe Gibbs Racing, where Stewart spent the first decade of his career, picked up 33 of his 48 career wins and the first two of his titles, kicked off the stroll down memory lane Wednesday with their first in a series of tributes that will run on the 20th of each month through the 2016 season.


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The familiar refrain of the Charlotte Motor Speedway Media Tour — of drivers, crew chiefs and team principals using the word “excited” to describe preseason morale — continued unabated Wednesday. Roush Fenway Racing kept the drumbeat going during the tour’s second day, expressing their own optimism about the 2016 racing season.
 
But it’s a persistent note the team has sounded before, most significantly ahead of last season — arguably the organization’s worst in 28 years in NASCAR’s premier series. The team had just brought in Mark McArdle as a senior engineering director and added Kevin Kidd as team manager, making significant personnel and structural changes within the organization to stem its decline — all the while knowing that true change in on-track performance wouldn’t happen immediately.
 
“I think it was unreasonable to expect that they were going to come in and then 30 days later, everything will have changed,” said Steve Newmark, Roush Fenway’s president since 2010. “They spent the year evaluating our structure and putting in place these processes, and I think that’s why you saw some uptick improvement at the end of last year.
 
“There’s a runway. You can’t change an organization that is this large overnight. And I think that applies to any of the race teams. We’ve all gotten so big that it’s not just 12 people working on a car where you can walk in one day and say we’re going to shift directions.”
 
This year’s changes at Roush Fenway appear to be subtle, but dig deeper and they’re far from it. The team’s three-driver Sprint Cup stable is unchanged — with Greg Biffle, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Trevor Bayne all returning — but two of the three have new crew chiefs. Brian Pattie transfers over from the remnants of Michael Waltrip Racing to pair with the veteran Biffle, and Bayne starts his second full season working with Matt Puccia.

RELATED: On the move breaks down all the changes for 2016
 
But the changes go past the company’s flow charts, extending into consolidating, rearranging desks and meeting places and making the most of their space at the Roush Fenway shop. It’s the next stage of a long-term overhaul with hopes of shaking off the 2015 doldrums, where its three teams finished 20th (Biffle), 25th (Stenhouse) and 29th (Bayne) in the final Sprint Cup driver standings.
 
“Last season, we were kind of shooting in the dark a little bit,” Bayne said. “We didn’t know what we were going into. We were optimistic, but we didn’t know. This year, we have a lot more knowns. We’ve had people in places for longer. I know my crew chief, Matt Puccia. I’ve done this for a season, so I know what that grind is like. So I feel like I can be more optimistic and be assured about that this season versus last season, the way that our team is working together is a lot different. It’s not just saying, ‘hey, we’re working together,’ it’s actually making physical changes in the race shop.”
 
The alterations also extend to other branches in the Ford Racing family tree, continuing its technical alliance with Richard Petty Motorsports but opening a new partnership with Front Row Motorsports. The Bob Jenkins-owned Front Row No. 34 team will get support in the form of technical know-how and a driver in Chris Buescher, last year’s XFINITY Series champion making the jump to the talented Sprint Cup rookie ranks.
 
That piece of the puzzle expands the collaborative effort for all three Ford teams, which will try to overcome last year’s aerodynamic deficit in the midst of a new reduced-downforce rules package and a new nose on the Ford Fusion model in 2016.

RELATED: Ford Fusions to have new look | See the differences
 
“Everybody in this sport is continuing to get better, and I think that’s one of the things that makes our NASCAR sport so tough is that the technology is always evolving and every team’s always getting faster,” Stenhouse said. “It’s not like football where you just get a new college athlete up that’s really good that kind of makes your team just a little bit better every year and you come up with some new plays. It’s building whole-new race cars and pieces to be better. The problem is, everybody else is doing it at the same time.”
 
Playing catch-up is a tall order for a three-car outfit that collectively led just 43 laps and registered only nine top-10 finishes last season — both all-time lows. How soon can Roush Fenway gauge if the turnaround effort has taken root?
 
“Atlanta, West Coast Swing,” Biffle said, pointing at the first four or five races of the Sprint Cup season. “Let’s get through Las Vegas, Phoenix and at the checkered flag at Phoenix, we’re going to have a clear picture where we stack up for the first part of the season. Till June, I’m going to say that’s going to be a good indicator on where we’re at.”
 
The proof will come in the results column, but with on-track activity still three weeks away, being excited — the media tour’s running cliché — will have to suffice, not just for the Roush Fenway brass but for competing executives as well.
 
“Whenever they get up, they’re going to say almost the same thing, but I do think there’s a genuine energy level and optimism, and I think there’s a real belief we’re going to do a lot better this year,” Newmark said. “We’ve got to prove it, but I the reasons why is that we’ve now had the time to be able to implement those new structures.”