Jack Roush was born on Jackson Earnest Roush on April 19,1942 and is the founder, CEO, and co-owner of Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing, a NASCAR team headquartered in Concord, North Carolina, and is chairman of Roush Enterprises.
23 Facts About Jack Roush
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Roush Enterprises is the parent company for Roush Racing as well as Roush Industries, a freelance engineering firm; Roush Performance, an automotive aftermarket development company; and ROUSH CleanTech, a manufacturer of propane autogas fuel systems, all headquartered in Livonia, Michigan.
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Rarely seen without his trademark Panama hat, Jack Roush is known on the NASCAR circuit as "The Cat in the Hat".
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Jack Roush was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame on April 27,2006.
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In 2008, Jack Roush was elected to the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame and was inducted on September 13,2010, in Novi.
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On May 23,2018, Jack Roush was selected as one of the five inductees for the 2019 NASCAR Hall of Fame class.
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Jack Roush was inducted into the EAA Warbirds of America Hall of Fame on November 8,2018, for his contributions to warbirds and the warbird community.
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Jack Roush was born in Covington, Kentucky and grew up in Manchester, Ohio.
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Jack Roush earned a mathematics degree with a minor in physics from Berea College, and a master's in scientific mathematics from Eastern Michigan University.
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Jack Roush worked at Ford after graduating in 1966, and left in 1970 to pursue his own company.
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Jack Roush worked for a year at Chrysler before leaving to open his own engineering business.
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Jack Roush then went on to partner with Wayne Gapp to race in NHRA, IHRA, and AHRA drag racing events.
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In 1988, Jack Roush moved south and founded a NASCAR Winston Cup Series team with driver Mark Martin.
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Jack Roush has two Daytona 500 victories as a car owner, both with driver Kenseth in 2009 and 2012.
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Since Jack Roush entered NASCAR competition his team has 283 wins and 212 poles.
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Jack Roush is vocally loyal to Ford and throughout his career has made cracks against Toyota being in NASCAR.
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In 2007 Jack Roush entered a verbal feud with Toyota team leader Lee White during the Toyota controversy following the rocket fuel incident.
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Jack Roush Performance sells a variety of vehicles, parts, and high-performance crate engines.
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Jack Roush was underwater and unconscious, suffering from a concussion, when Larry Hicks, a retired Marine in a nearby boat, rescued Jack Roush from under water, pulled him to safety, and administered CPR.
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Shortly afterwards, Jack Roush was flown to UAB Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama, where he was treated for a head injury, broken ribs, and a shattered left leg.
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On July 27,2010, Jack Roush crashed his Hawker Beechcraft Premier 390 jet during an approach to the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh airshow in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in the late afternoon.
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Jack Roush walked out of the plane and was taken to a nearby hospital.
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Jack Roush's condition was listed at serious but stable that evening.