Ford Gets it’s CoT Hands Dirty

29th January 2008

Ford Gets it’s CoT Hands Dirty

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Ford has made a major change to it’s NASCAR CORN program and will take overall responsibility for chassis development.

Dan Davis, head of Ford Racing Technology, confirmed a seven post shaker located within the Roush-Fenway Racing facility would be available to all Sprint Cup Ford teams. Ford also plans to farm out one of its engineers to each of the teams to assist in the development of the car.

This is a logical response to the Hendrick Motor Sports CORN domination last year and follows Fords policy which sees all Ford supported teams use the Roush/Yates engine package. Essentailly all teams will now source identical engine and chassis packages and it will be up to each team to make the best use of them.

“To me the way the engine program worked is you had the best of what Roush was doing, the best of what Yates was doing and you combined the two,” said Davis. “One plus one equaled four in that case, in my opinion. So what were going trying to do is the same thing.”

Two of the most obvious benefactors of this change will be Woods Brothers Racing, and JTG Racing, both of which will field Sprint Cup entries for Marcos Ambrose this season.

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1 On January 30th, 2008, mike said:#

I didn’t realize there was a difference between Ford Racing Technology and Roush-Fenway Racing.

posted on January 30th, 2008 at 8:50 am

2 On January 30th, 2008, Marc said:#

Good shot Mike.
Joined at the hip I hear. Or was it separated at birth?

posted on January 30th, 2008 at 12:44 pm

3 On January 30th, 2008, george said:#

This might go a long ways toward evening the competitive field with the bowtie teams. But will it make GM offer the same deal for the lesser Chevy teams? Not to mention Dodge and ‘yota??

All in all I’m not sure if this is the way to go.

posted on January 30th, 2008 at 2:25 pm

4 On January 30th, 2008, Marc said:#

It might not be, but it can’t hurt. I think Ford will be sucking buttermilk at least until they get their new engine ready. And I’ve heard nothing about when that will be.

posted on January 30th, 2008 at 3:45 pm

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