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Sunday,
June 15, 2008 on TNT
Jack
Roush to Perform NCTS Cool City Customs 200 Flyover
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Michigan International Speedway
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Anyone
who knows longtime team owner and Livonia, Mich., resident
Jack Roush will tell you that he has two loves, NASCAR
racing and aviation. Roush will get the best of both worlds
on Saturday during pre-race activities for the NASCAR
Craftsman Truck Series Cool City Customs 200 at Michigan
International Speedway.
Roush,
who is an avid pilot, will perform the flyover in his
P-51 plane for the Cool City Customs 200. He will be accompanied
by some of his friends piloting T-6 aircrafts. It is the
first time Roush has performed a flyover for a NASCAR
race.
“This
will be a great honor for me to celebrate the military
and to remember all the veterans and flyover at the conclusion
of the National Anthem, in my hometown, as it were,”
Roush said. “It’s going to be fun to do that.
And, I’ve got to make some phone calls; rather than
do a one-ship, it would be my intention if I can organize
it to do a four-ship, so I’ve got to see if I can
scare up three friends with T-6’s in the area who
are the trainers to flyover with my P-51.”
After
the flyover, Roush will helicopter back from Willow Run
Airport in Ypsilanti, Mich., and be back at the Irish
Hills track for the race, which will feature three of
his drivers, Erik Darnell, Colin Braun and Bobby East.
Roush
is one of the most successful owners in MIS history. His
10 victories as an owner in the Cup Series at MIS are
second only to the Wood Brothers (11). His drivers swept
the weekend in June 2007 at MIS with Darnell (ARCA), Travis
Kvapil (NCTS) and Carl Edwards (Sprint Cup) all winning
their respective events. Despite his success in racing
over the years, Roush still maintains his love for flying
and regularly flies by MIS when he has time.
“It’s
always been something that I’ve been interested
in. As a youngster I built balsawood model airplanes,
first with rubber bands for power and then later with
little nitro-burning engines for power,” he said.
“I designed my own airplanes and built them from
kits just as I grew into being an adolescent, I was very
active in pursuing that interest. And then of course,
in the ’80s when I was road racing real hard, I
had a chance – or excuse or the reason – to
have a corporate airplane to fly around, as I do today,
and then that really got me started with personal aviation
as far as being a pilot.”
Among
one of the most famous fighters of World War II, the P-51
has its roots in both Britain and the USA. The P-51 would
be unmatched by any other piston aircraft of World War
II.
Tickets
for the Cool City Customs 200 are available by calling
the MIS Ticket Hotline at 800-354-1010 or visit MISpeedway.com.
Children 12 and under are admitted free. Fans who have
purchased tickets for the race gain free admission to
the Miller Lite Rock N’ Racing concert presented
by Cool City Customs featuring country music star Sammy
Kershaw. The concert will begin approximately a half hour
after the conclusion of the race.
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