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BudSooner
1/5/2007, 08:48 PM
Negotiations progressing between Roush and Red Sox owner -->UPDATE done deal: The negotiations in the sale of a portion of Roush Racing to Boston Red Sox owner John Henry's Fenway Sports Group are progressing well, Roush Racing President Geoff Smith said Saturday. Many of the major points have been agreed upon since the negotiations began in earnest in September. "The big principal points, that's all buttoned up," Smith said. "I think by the first of the year, we'll [know]. We're going along pretty fast. By Daytona for sure." One of those pieces involves what percentage of the racing organization the Fenway Sports Group will own. Jack Roush will not relinquish control of the team. "We have been open to being all the way up to equal [partners], but not more than equal [for them],"(SceneDaily.com)(11-19-2006)
UPDATE: the [Red] Sox deal for a half-interest in Roush Racing, the class of NASCAR racing, is done. Reported price: $62 million. Formal announcement to follow.(at the bottom of a Boston Globe article)(1-5-2007)
http://jayski.com/cupnews.htm#stuff



Maybe Mark Martin is a Yankee fan and saw the writing on the wall, since he left Roush to drive a Chevy(yeah!)for Ginn Motorsports.
It will be the first time in his career as a racer that he will wheel a car that does not carry the blue oval logo of Ford, even though it is on a part time basis in which he decides when to race and when not to.
Just another way for Jack to run 5 cars under the new Nascar team cap which limits owners to 4 cars and drivers, deal ownership of the 5th to Henry and get around the wording...as always skirting the rulebook.
Roush=the debil.