It takes not only one or two or three people to make a car ready for racing in the NASCAR. You can surely ask the Ford Motor Company about it. After all, they have been sprucing up their new Ford Taurus so as to make it ready to race and leave all other competitors in the dust. And rumors are going around that the latest in auto technology is going to be used in the new Ford Taurus.
Robin Pemberton is the field manager for Ford’s racing team for the NASCAR and he shares, “A lot of times you can build a car that just suits one team’s purpose.” He also does express, “I think the last couple times we had Penske doing one version, Yates doing one and Roush doing one. During that (’98) project, NASCAR would cut templates off of cars and they were different cars that were constructed in different ways and not all the templates fit all the cars at the same time. It was almost impossible.”
Such humble beginnings really did teach Ford’s racing team well. And so they have been able to make the right changes and issue on wonderful designs so as to help out their racing cars take home the gold.
Specht, another one of those who worked for the new Ford Taurus, recalls, “What we have in ‘04 is a re-freshening of the Taurus, so that kicks off a process. After the decision was made, we say to the production guys, ‘OK, what are your thoughts? Show us your sketches and drawings,’ and so on and so forth. With their ideas and goals in place, we went back and started looking at the race car and say, ‘OK, now what do we need to do to the race car to have it look like the production car?’”