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The Fords of Roush Fenway Racing and Richard Petty Motorsports will switch to the FR9 engine beginning with the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway on July 3 and race it for the remainder of the season with the exception of Watkins Glen and Bristol Motor Speedway. The Roush and RPM teams will all race the engine at the Sprint All-Star Race. Ford originally submitted the engine for approval in the summer of 2008 and used it for the first time at the fall Talladega race. However, they rushed it before it was fully developed. The overall cost for the project the first purpose-built racing engine for NASCAR ran between $15-20 million.
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Re: The FR9
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Re: The FR9
Ford's FR9 engine, run sparingly since its debut last season, will likely be in use by all Roush Fenway Racing and Richard Petty Motorsports teams by midsummer, according to Roush Fenway Racing team co-owner Jack Roush. "We're going to run the engines in all the cars at Charlotte for the All-Star weekend," Roush said Saturday at Dover International Speedway. "By Michigan, I don't know that we will have the engine in all the Ford cars from that point forward, but we will at least have half a dozen engines in the 10 or so Fords that we build engines for. From that point on, depending on the durability and depending on the confidence, depending on the supply of parts, we'll have that available to us." Teams began phasing in the new engine late last season as a replacement for the 452 model. An abundance of the existing engines and lack of new pieces for the FR9, as well as durability questions, kept Ford teams from making the switch en masse. "It's been Doug Yates' determination, and my determination and all the people that are under his management, that we didn't want to introduce the engine as long as there was a known problem and until there were enough parts to make a satisfactory representation," Roush said. Yates heads up Roush Yates Engines, which supplies the Ford powerComment
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