Yates Racing Remains Loyal to Ford
by: evander
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Nextel Cup team Robert Yates
Racing has confirmed that it will continue to work with Ford the maker of Ford Focus performance parts
for the next few years after Ford Racing Technology has assured that it has
signed another contract with the team for the next five years.
Yates has been the subject of
much speculation this year as it had suggested that they were working on a deal
to power the DEI cars next year. Other teams that were working on with the
Dodge power were reported to have approached Yates to have their engines built
by them.
However Yates despite the fact
that they have gone through some difficult period recently has promised to
remain loyal to Ford. The team has been working with the Blue Oval Company for
the past 19 years, and was able to achieve 57 NASCAR Nextel Cup wins with one
championship in 1999 with Dale Jarrett.
At present RYR is handling two
Ford Fusions in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series for David Gilliland and Ricky
Rudd, while Stephen Leicht pilots the squad’s lone Busch Series entry.
Team founder Robert Yates said,
"For Ford to come up and support us when we're not having our best days is
really a great feeling. They're not turning their back on us. They're offering
us plenty of help to get this deal turned around, certainly with engineering
support, so we appreciate everybody at Ford, everybody that works on them and
everybody that buys them. I'm very appreciative of having this deal. We’re
happy about this being done because there was speculation out there that we
didn't have anything or that we were looking elsewhere. It wasn't true, but
it's hard to quiet your critics, especially when your competition is trying to
shoot you down, so I want to thank Ford for being loyal to us."
The last race where the team
has won a race was at
About Ford Motors
Ford Motor Company is an
American multinational corporation and currently the world’s third largest
automaker after
It was also last year that Ford
was able to produce about 6.6 million automobiles and employed about 280,000
employees for its 100 plants and facilities worldwide. Ford is based in
About the Author
Evander Klum is a Business Administration graduate who hails from Alabama. He enjoys extreme sports and he is also a car racing fanatic. At present, he works as a marketing manager at an advertising agency in Cleveland.
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