Born in Covington, Kentucky in 1942, Jack Roush has nurtured a lifelong passion for mechanics and developed it into Roush Fenway Racing, the world's largest supplier of integrated motorsports marketing services. Roush Fenway Racing currently boasts five Winston Cup teams, one full-season and one limited-schedule Busch Series team, and two Craftsman Truck Teams.

Jack Roush is easily-recognizable these days, wearing his trademark straw hat and weaving his way through the NASCAR Winston Cup garage area, observing, learning, jotting down notes, formulating new ideas on improving performance. But his professional career began in 1964 when he worked as an engineer for Ford Motor Company.

During his tenure at Ford, Roush became fascinated with the company's extensive involvement in motorsports activities. He eventually left Ford to pursue this interest in engine development, earning a Master's in Scientific Mathematics from Eastern Michigan University in 1970, which he felt was a necessary move in order to break into automotive research and development.

Roush continued his career in motorsports, but also spent some time teaching mathematics, physics, and automotive subjects at Monroe Community College in Monroe, Michigan in the early seventies before moving on to form Jack Roush Performance Engineering in 1976 and Roush Fenway Racing in 1988.

Jack Roush became the only professional drag racer to compete in NASCAR, SCCA, Trans Am, and IMSA road racing, car racing and IRL oval racing - with success in every series.

Today, Roush's business has expanded to employ more than 1800 people and operates facilities in five states, as well as in Mexico and Great Britain.