Stir-crazy Reiser has trouble adjusting to his office job
By Don Coble| Morris News Service
Thursday, February 28, 2008

Robbie Reiser is having second thoughts about moving to the front office at Roush Fenway Racing. But car owner Jack Roush said there won't be any turning back.

Reiser and Matt Kenseth came to Roush as a package deal in 1998, when they won 16 races and the 2003 Sprint Cup Series championship. Reiser accepted a promotion as the general manager, overseeing all of Roush's Craftsman Truck, Nationwide and Sprint Cup teams this year. But he misses getting his hands dirty.

"I don't like it that much," Reiser told ESPN. "If somebody came up and said you can do your old job again, I'd probably take it in a heartbeat."

Roush said Monday that's not an option at his race team.

"Robbie Reiser is doing a great job," Roush said. "He was a great crew chief. He's not yet got comfortable with his new job. But right now, it's Robbie and I. There's no buffer. Some days I think that may not be as comfortable for him as what he had."

Reiser said he will wait a few months to adjust. If he's still unhappy, he will look for something new.

A LATE NIGHT: Bad weather for Sunday's scheduled race at the Auto Club Speedway came as expected, but it didn't keep NASCAR from trying to continue the show.

Although drivers complained of water oozing through the cracks on the track and rain sent all but a handful of fans home, the sanctioning body insisted on keeping everyone at the speedway for hours.

The plug was pulled at 11 p.m. local time -- 2 a.m. in on the East Coast.

According to NASCAR vice president Robin Pemberton , the reason they wouldn't give up was the fans. But that raises another question: What fans?

If the race had resumed at 11 p.m., it wouldn't have ended until about 1:30 a.m. That's 4:30 a.m. where the bulk of NASCAR's fans live.

If Pemberton was talking about the fans in the stands, there were only about 2,000 who sat through all the delays.

While many of the drivers questioned why NASCAR waited so long to postpone the event until Monday, they applauded the tenacity of both NASCAR and the fans. In fact, Tony Stewart dedicated his Nationwide Series victory Monday afternoon to the fans.

"It was really a weird weekend," Stewart said. "NASCAR did a great job; the track did a great job to do everything they could to get us on the track.

"The fans never gave up. That's why I pointed to the fans. This was for them."

TWO OUT OF THREE ISN'T BAD: Kyle Busch left the Auto Club Speedway 30 points short of leading all three of NASCAR's national touring classes.

He's first in the Craftsman Truck and Sprint Cup series, but Stewart leads the Nationwide standings after sweeping the first two races.

From the Thursday, February 28, 2008 edition of the Augusta Chronicle
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