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  • thecoltcollector
    awwwwwwwwww did he cry......oh did i say that out loud[:0] [:D][}:)]
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  • spurgemastur
    who?
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  • Permanently deleted user
    But no fine? I think NASCAR is not being fair there. They fined and penalized these other teams but because Gordon has fan appeal they just move him back?

    And worse of all at a place like Daytona being in the back is not really a bad thing. With the way they all move around for position Daytona is very winnable from the back.

    I think thet should have at least fined $25k and 25 points!
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  • iluvguns
    Nascar sucks major on this deal. Nascar determined that his car was less than ONE INCH too low, and that it happened due to an "PART BREAKING ACCIDENTLY" (their words). Now, how in the heck can you penalize somenoe for a PART that breaks on the race track, and it wasn't like it was DESIGNED to break. NASCAR needs to get its head out of its a$$! The penalty against Waltrip was justified. But not against Evernham or Roush. I don't pull for Gordon or any Roush or Evernham team, but just to protest against NASCAR's STUPIDITY, I will this week! Here is what NASCAR said about Gordon:

    Robin Pemberton, NASCAR's vice president for competition, said bolts had been misaligned on the rear shocks installed prior to Thursday's race. Once the race started, the load on those misaligned bolts caused the car's quarterpanels, but not the roof, to be lower than the minimum allowed height.

    "Honestly, I think it's something a mechanic made a mistake on as he bolted the shocks on during the installation process," Pemberton said.

    Pemberton added that NASCAR was convinced the infraction was unintentional, and that no fines or point deductions would be warranted. Gordon, a three-time winner of the Daytona 500, will vacate his fourth-place starting position and instead roll off 42nd. Dale Jarrett, who got into the race on a past champion's provisional, will start last.
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  • select-fire
    Just wait Sunday how fast Gordon will go with the car being put together right.
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  • shoff14
    quote:Originally posted by iluvguns
    Nascar sucks major on this deal. Nascar determined that his car was less than ONE INCH too low, and that it happened due to an "PART BREAKING ACCIDENTLY" (their words). Now, how in the heck can you penalize somenoe for a PART that breaks on the race track, and it wasn't like it was DESIGNED to break. NASCAR needs to get its head out of its a$$! The penalty against Waltrip was justified. But not against Evernham or Roush. I don't pull for Gordon or any Roush or Evernham team, but just to protest against NASCAR's STUPIDITY, I will this week! Here is what NASCAR said about Gordon:

    Robin Pemberton, NASCAR's vice president for competition, said bolts had been misaligned on the rear shocks installed prior to Thursday's race. Once the race started, the load on those misaligned bolts caused the car's quarterpanels, but not the roof, to be lower than the minimum allowed height.

    "Honestly, I think it's something a mechanic made a mistake on as he bolted the shocks on during the installation process," Pemberton said.

    Pemberton added that NASCAR was convinced the infraction was unintentional, and that no fines or point deductions would be warranted. Gordon, a three-time winner of the Daytona 500, will vacate his fourth-place starting position and instead roll off 42nd. Dale Jarrett, who got into the race on a past champion's provisional, will start last.




    You just contradicted yourself in the first and then the last two paragraphs. Show me some proof that it broke? I haven't seen or watched anything like that! It was installed improperly, poop happens one bolt slot to low and they screwed up, plan and simple as that.


    As with not fining him, I think NASCAR is correct that it was an accident. Gordon will pay for it. They ran a race with the car set up wrong, they will have to find the changes on sunday to fix it.

    As with the other fines

    -Someone in Kenseth's crew forgot to cover and opening, and opening tha t doesn't even do anything to preformance.
    -Kahne, Sadler, and Riggs all used bolts in their spoilers that wasn't approved. They ran the same bolts all of last year.
    -waltrip, well they just screwed themselves over.
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  • iluvguns
    Here is the story about the "part failure." To me, "failure" means something failed or BROKE.

    "NASCAR inspectors said Gordon's No. 24 Monte Carlo was almost an inch too low, but blamed it on a part failure - not cheating. He was not stripped of the victory.

    "We feel it was unintentional, and actually fairly unsafe," said NASCAR competition director Robin Pemberton. "We feel that it was a part failure. ... I think it would be marginal at best if there was any advantage."

    NASCAR said it believed a mechanic made a mistake when the shocks were installed before the race."

    I just think NASCAR is going way too far with these things. Just like with the bolts holding on the spoilers. They were fine last year, no bulletin was sent out changing the specs, and VIOLA! This year the inspectors decide they are illegal? Makes no sense. If NASCAR really wants to join the "big time" crap like this will have to stop.
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