Roush Fenway makes announcement of new employees

There are a lot of improvements needed for 2016

Roush Fenway Racing announced after the season ended about the restructuring of their outfit for the upcoming season.  Today the team announced where the three new hired positions will be placed for the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season.

Kurt Romberg, Dr. Kent Day, and Vojin Jaksic will each take on high level positions within Roush Fenway Racing for 2016.

"It takes great talent to win in this sport and we are very pleased with the additions we have made on the competition front," said car owner Jack Roush.  "We recognize the importance of putting the appropriate personnel into place, as we continue our relentless pursuit to put the best and most competitive race teams on the track."

Kurt Romberg comes from Hendrick Motorsports where he spent 15 years as the head man of aerodynamics for the powerhouse organization.  He worked with General Motors and Petty Enterprises before taking on the role of chief aerodynamicist at HMS.

Dr. Kent Day will become the Manager of Simulation.  Day, who holds, a PH.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Clemson University, brings over two decades of experience to RFR.  He has held technical director positions with Team Penske and Richard Childress Racing, and most recently served in vehicle dynamics at Michael Waltrip Racing.

Jaksic will return to RFR as the research and development/special projects manager after serving in similar positions with MWR and Joe Gibbs Racing.  Jaksic previously had worked at RFR from 2005 until 2011.

The three additions to the organization are part of a strategic plan to expand organizational capabilities and follows the hiring of veterans Mark McArdle and Kevin Kidd from last season.

McArdle is the leader of engineering while Kevin Kidd remains the Sprint Cup Series director.  It was earlier in 2015 that Kevin Kidd made a statement to Motorsport.com that he felt this was going to be a multi-year plan to rebuild Roush Fenway Racing.

"Rome was not built in a day and we're in the process of building Rome back up," Kidd stated.  "It's going to take time.  That's the simple truth.  I had some perspective on it this week like when you look at other organizations that are down and trying to build back up - Ganassi comes to mind.  Penske, maybe less so but maybe a few years back.  It's a solid two to three year process of trying to get back to full form and ultimate competitive level.  I'll stop short of saying it will take two to three years, but it's going to take time.

"When you look at where we're trying to go with this, we're trying to change the culture of Roush Fenway Racing, how we've done business in the past and how we'll do business in the future.  Ultimately, that change, more so than nuts and bolts of race cars, but the change of our working philosophies, that's what will get us back to a competitive level -- and that takes time."