Jack Roush, owner of the Roush Fenway Racing team is accusing one of Toyota�s racing team of theft for taking his team�s front sway bar, which initially was thought to be a spring of one of their cars. Roush president Geoff Smith initially confirmed that the recovered part was not a spring and continued that the car part allegedly ended getting mixed up with other Toyota parts during a tear down conducted by NASCAR inspectors. Upon discovering that the part wasn�t theirs, Toyota dutifully returned it to the Roush Fenway Racing team. But despite returning the car part, Jack Roush still expressed his anger in the ESPN Magazine released last March 7 stating: �We had a proprietary Roush Fenway part go missing from one of my race teams and we recovered it from a Toyota team. I'm not going to say which team it is, but we are considering legal action or getting NASCAR involved.� He even held a press conference last Friday where he again reiterated his accusation of theft against Toyota and where he finally revealed that the part that went missing was in fact a front sway bar.
Roush started to talk after hearing the comments made by Toyota�s Sprint Cup Series general manager Lee White at USA Today, regarding the debacle the team and their racer Carl Edwards were currently in. This prompted Roush to lash back at the White, where he brought up allegations about Toyota using jet fuel at last year�s Daytona 500.
White is currently looking into this missing part allegation as well and has refused to provide any comments pending further investigation. So far, NASCAR hasn�t had any involvement with this case citing that this has to be settled by the teams themselves. Hopefully this matter gets to be resolved soon since cases like these are something NASCAR can really do without.
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