Roush Fenway doesn?t plan legal action against MWR, but...

Roush Fenway doesn?t plan legal action against MWR, but words escalate

Roush Fenway Racing doesn’t plan to take legal action against Michael Waltrip Racing for what it characterized as the theft of a sway bar unless there is evidence that the piece has been duplicated. Team president Geoff Smith said the issue would not have surfaced at all had Toyota general manager Lee White not insinuated that Roush’s team of Carl Edwards intentionally cheated at Las Vegas. “But for Lee White, in spite of his education and position, engaging in this vituperative slander of our organization we wouldn’t have said anything,” Smith said on Sunday at Martinsville Speedway. Smith discounted Waltrip’s comment that the bar wasn’t taken on purpose and that there was no attempt to duplicate it. “We had people from their organization tell us [what happened],” Smith said. “You also have to remember the bar was blue. There are no other blue sway bars. If you’re a mechanic you know that is not yours. “It wasn’t an accident that the color was sandblasted off so the source of origin as a Roush part was not generally known.”

Date: March / 31 / 2008
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