Posted on 05/05/2022 4:37:07 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
NASCAR suspended the wrong crew member after a wheel came off Denny Hamlin’s car at Dover on Monday.
Hamlin’s crew didn’t get the left-front wheel tight on his car during a pit stop after the conclusion of the first stage of the race. As Hamlin was the first car to leave pit road, the wheel came off and came to a stop near the inside wall at the end of pit lane.
The 2022 Cup Series cars have just one lug nut instead of five and loose wheels have been a significant issue for teams as they struggle with the new pit guns and pit stop procedures. AJ Allmendinger’s team also failed to tighten a wheel completely during Monday’s race and he caused a caution when his right-front wheel came off.
With the looming potential of loose wheels this season, NASCAR said that it would suspend a team’s crew chief and two other crew members for four races if a team had a loose wheel. And on Tuesday, NASCAR announced the penalties for Hamlin and Allmendinger’s teams.
Hamlin’s crew chief Chris Gabehart, Jackman Derrell Edwards, and tire changer Blake Houston were the No. 11 car crew members suspended. The suspensions of Edwards and Houston make sense on the surface; Edwards dropped the jack on Hamlin’s pit stop before the left-front tire was fully fastened on the car.
But Houston wasn’t the tire changer on that pit stop. If you watch the highlight above, you can see that Houston is carrying Hamlin’s left front tire and crew member Michael Hicks is the man changing the tire.
Yet Hicks wasn’t suspended by NASCAR. Why? NASCAR’s explanation is because Houston was listed as the front tire changer on Hamlin’s car.
NASCAR isn’t rescinding the penalty on Houston and applying it to Hicks, either.
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WTG, NOOSECAR!
Did you read it? He was SUSPENDED!!!! God, the horror!
“The 2022 Cup Series cars have just one lug nut”
YOU HAD ONE JOB!
literally
This is why I keep up to date on all my spare tire changing techniques. These guys are loooosers.
I see what you did there.
Wait, peeps still watching NOOSECAR?! lulz
Keep dem wheels a rolling.......
Taking off five nuts was just too much trouble??
The old wire wheels used on Jags had the same problem of one point of failure. But the Brits were smart enough to figure how dumb it was.
The stages of a project:
1. Uncritical Acceptance
2. Wild Enthusiasm
3. Dejected Disillusionment
4. Total Confusion
5. Search for the Guilty
6. Punishment of the Innocent
7. Promotion for the Non Participants
NASCAR is at stage 6...
LOL. NOOSECAR thinks they’re F1 /1 lug.
This sport doesn’t know what it is. It keeps changing from rules to its identity.
They hate their fan base and would rather appeal to Biden/BLM supporters.
Good riddance.
Yep. NASCAR is dead!!!
Did you read it?
NOOSECAR joke suspended the WRONG guy.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The wheels came off NASCAR a while back. They’re running on the rims.
Yeah, who's still watching?
I have that on a button as:
6 PHASES OF A PROJECT
1. Enthusiasm
2. Disillusionment
3. Panic
4 Search for the Guilty
5. Punishment of the innocent
6. Praise and honors for the non participants.
Practically a law of nature...
...especially the last three!
Better button:
“No moment of despair is so great that it cannot be overcome by a fifth of good bourbon and a redhead in black seemed stockings and six-inch stiletto heels.”
Since NASCAR is woke it’s best just to ignore them and let them continue to go broke.
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