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Roush to build all Yates cars: Roush Fenway Racing will be building all of Yates Racings Sprint Cup next season, and team co-owner Jack Roush said hes looking forward to helping the Yates group return to its performance levels of old. Starting with the 2008 season, Roush Fenway Racing will manufacture all of Yates Racings cars, with Yates moving to Concord, N.C., next to Roush Fenways shops. Yates, meanwhile, will lease its current shop in Mooresville, N.C., to Petty Enterprises. Were making preparations to enter into a service agreement with them that will avail them of the technology and of the vehicles with the engineering essence and the vehicles that are coming out of our construction activities, said Roush Saturday morning at Phoenix International Raceway. We want to try to breath some blue sky and some viability back into the program. One of the benefits of Roush Fenway Racing building cars for both teams is that in the long run, it will result in cost savings, because the cost for R&D, tooling, etc., will be spread over a larger number of cars, Roush said. Weve got some opportunities of scale, in terms of understanding what we need to do and then the more volume you generate off that for the same amount of engineering work, design work, tooling, all those things you do, its an extraordinarily expensive proposition to go do all the testing thats necessary to build and support one Cup car in todays world, said Roush. If, taken to the other extreme, an IROC scenario where all the cars were completely identical coming out of the factory, then the cost to the teams and the value to the sponsors would be maximized. This is something in between.(Ford Racing)(11-12-2007)