February 15, 2007
NASCAR officials inspect the car of driver Jeff Gordon in the Grand National Garage at the Daytona International Speedway on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007, in Daytona Beach, Fla. Gordon's car failed postrace inspection, and he will start the Daytona 500 in 42nd position.
AP - Feb 15, 7:56 pm EST
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Just when it looked like racing would snatch the spotlight from the cheaters at Daytona, Jeff Gordon's winning car failed inspection.
Gordon, who won the second of Thursday's two 150-mile qualifying races, will now start the Daytona 500 in 42nd place.
NASCAR inspectors said his Chevrolet was almost an inch too low but blamed it on a part failure -- not cheating. He was not stripped of the victory.
Let's see now...a part breaks causing the car to be out of conformance.
What happens when a car gets schmooked and messes up the rear spoiler? Then what if that car with a bad spoiler WINS the race??? The spoiler is broken and it doesn't conform to the template anymore? They DQ him???
This whole thing is craxxxxxy