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No, I meant the team. The biggest irony of all this is that for long have people said Alex is the weak link and should be let go, and it turn out that the TEAM let HIM down, and one of the most critical points of the season. I know Alex will take the high road, but would NOT want to have that...

Hey, now that we know some FACTS, it's fair to nominate the 48 team for Bonehead of the YEAR! They screwed up, no excuses. All I was saying was let the process play out a little farther to see if there was some extenuating circumstances. Now that it has, bash away.

Your anger should be directed at the sanctioning body that tends to make up rules and procedures on the fly, not the recipient. It's not the 9's fault if NASCAR makes a wrong or inconsistent ruling that happens to benefit them.

Don't you think we should find out WHY before we start pointing fingers? The story already going around is that something came off the car when Alex jumped the curb early in the race. Now if true, that doesn't necessarily mean that the 48 team doesn't bear some responsibility for it departing...

So the 0.5% is an overall allowance because if the car is light they top off the fuel and water and weigh again, it's not an allowance for lost fluids.

That's not the way I took what Brad said. They fill the fuel before weighing, and he mentioned filling up the water, so why would they need an allowance for fluid loss?

I will be REALLY interested in knowing where the car lost that much weight between pre and post race inspection. This isn't the 70's when things like this were common.

Two things would fix that. A more stringent minimum speed, and a rule that says if anything flies off your car after you back out, you get parked.

And there is the problem with the clock. I would MUCH prefer the teams be able take the car back to the garage and spend a couple extra minutes making good repair in a safe place instead of making a hasty repairs on a busy pit road.

It sounds to me like they are just going to have more stringent application of the rule that was beyond stupid in the first place. Tow every car car back to the pit, and they either beat the clock or they don't. I doesn't get more simple or fsir than than than that but NASCAR specializes in...

And people wonder why us older folks rag on modern education so much. I have absolutely no idea what they teach in school nowadays, because every time I have a conversation with someone under 40, they don't seem to know much of anything about anything unless it's TV or a some computer game. I...

Go find Cale's 83' Hardees Monte Carlo, wind tunnel it and then build a modern car with the same drag and downforce numbers. Then ask Waddell how much horsepower Cale had, and restrict the engines to THAT number. There would still be some issues, but it would be a good start. :p

Funny you should mention Chuck Yeager. Certainly a hero of mine and perhaps the most iconic pilot in history, but I was talking to a late 20's parts salesman that I have gotten to know fairly well the other day, and he had not the first clue who Chuck Yeager was. Sad, but true. I showed him one...

The phrase doesn't mean any more to me than it does to you. In fact, when I see "icon", my first instinct is to run the opposite direction as fast as I can. That being said, it is foolish to underestimate the power and influence they wield out there in the rest of the world.

How many people can sell tens of millions of dollars worth of apparel with nothing but a silhouette of them going up for a layup? No name, no context, just picture.

Have you heard of Taylor Swift? If that woman shaved her eyebrows off, there would be 50 million girls and young women worldwide doing it before the day was over.

It doesn't mean they can't upload a PDF file on NASCAR.com and let everyone read it for themselves. The old ARCA rulebooks were available to pretty much anyone who asked.

Well that aside, MJ is VERY BIG in the demographics that NASCAR, and more importantly many of the NASCAR sponsors want to be in with. It's like the Pitbull thing. I wouldn't recognize him if he walked into my office right now, and I couldn't name a single song of his, but he is big with people...

We can ALWAYS use more people who don't or no longer have any financial ties or contractual obligations to NASCAR. We have more than enough company line toers out there.

Does it really matter?