NASCAR: Crew chiefs suspended, drivers docked points in Daytona cheating scandal (Update: #60)

Yahoo! / The Associated Press ^ | 2/13/06 | Jenna Fryer

[paulat]

Ping!

[NormsRevenge]

-50 and -25 points and they haven't even raced an official Cup race yet.

Talked a hole shot.. ;-)

[geo40xyz]

What part of NO CHEATING do these clowns not understand??

[Lx]

Gee, shades of the dissolving port restrictors.

[paulat]

Talked a hole shot.. ;-)

Got that right. Was just about to ping ya.

[Ben Mugged]

Evernham maintained the holes had been covered with duct tape that apparently fell off

Or perhaps the tape was positioned so at speed it would fall off exposing the illegal holes......

[paulat]

The Perp:

[NormsRevenge]

egads! I should have said or meant to say

Talk about a hole shot,,

But thanks for reading my mind and not my fingers. we'll tack this onto the current NutsoCart thread.. for those that have the stomach for it, that is. ;-)

NASCAR - BUDWEISER SHOOTOUT AND GATORADE DUELS - DAYTONA SPEEDWEEKS FEBRUARY 2007 [Finally] ^
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1780177/posts

[mnehring]

So.. who put the stuff in the Toyota? Did anyone notice how they kept blocking him in last Saturday? I wonder if the union sponsors want to sabotage Toyota entering the race? Just some tin foil thoughts..

(BTW, wasn't Saturday the first race that Ryan Newman has had an engine go south? He has had a LOT of tire troubles & steering problems in the past, but I don't recall him ever blowing an engine..)

[Banjoguy]

Heaven forbid that any driver or team should try to make their car faster than their competitor's car. What's racing coming to?

I'm not close to this or any part of racing but as an erstwhile fan, IMO, it's the France family and NASCAR that is screwing up racing, not drivers seeking to gain a competitive advantage.

[LukeL]

Rusty Wallace said it best, there is "cheating" and CHEATING. When you have a cair that is 1/8th of an inch too low that is one thing because it could have dropped from the stresses of the race, but when someone has an illegal part on their car, that is a whole other story.

[19th LA Inf]

I love the story about Junior Johnson's car being protested back in the old days. The NASCAR inspectors dropped the gas tank out, measured it and were going to pass it as OK, when they heard the engine fire up and Junior drove the car away.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

other than body style (which is regulated to the point that basically the only difference is what's printed on the front of the car indicating "make"), what is the difference between a chevy, ford, toyota etc..??

[GeorgiaDawg32]

thanks for the ping..:)

[cripplecreek]

Skirting the rules and looking for loopholes has a long tradition in NASCAR. The writer sounds like some vast scandal was discovered but any long time fan knows that the teams are constantly walking the fine line between legal and illegal.

Sometimes they get caught sometimes they don't. Sometimes they get caught and NASCAR ignores it, then all the teams do it next week. Some violations are small and some are big like these were.

[Rushmore Rocks]

FYI

[PeteB570]

Holes? Holes that had to be covered with duck tape? That fell off????????

Oh, how far NASCAR has moved away from it's roots.

Hey NASCAR! Maybe dropping all the races in the S/E has something to do with fans fading away.

[umgud]

This is worth a ping to the gang.

[thinkthenpost]

NASCAR continues to run me off, once Bill Elliott falls a lap down on Sunday I'll turn the race off. Back in the late Eighties I probably watched about 20 Winston Cup races a year pretty much green to checkers, now I didn't watch more than a few minutes of any race last season. Good riddance, once Bill quits for good I doubt I have anything to do with NASCAR