Am I missing something?

wolfcub

wolfcub

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NASCAR forces these guys to toll the line of not complying the way they mandate thse cars now so Clint's Car passed inspection barely but "NASCAR warns RCR on Bowyer’s Chase-clinching car" and they will not give the car back until they have a meeting. Pushing the envelope is not agianst the rules yet NASCAR makes them do it and then acts like they did something wrong. What am I missing here?

http://sports.yahoo.com/nascar/news;_ylt=Arz0.tvbj.l7YW3MkOOjn6Tov7YF?slug=ap-nascar-bowyer-warning
 
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (AP)—"NASCAR has warned Richard Childress Racing that Clint Bowyer’s car came close to failing inspection after his Chase-clinching drive at Richmond."
Sounds like it passed inspection, to me? What's the problem?
Bowyer’s car was chosen by NASCAR for random inspection following his sixth-place finish at the Sept. 11 race.


"Once back at NASCAR’s research and development center, NASCAR discovered the back end of the Chevrolet was very close to its mandated tolerance levels."
"Very close to," but it passed. Again, what's the problem? I hate conspiracy theories but this sounds a little like "You found something the others didn't and that's not what parity is all about."

If that's the case, I'd like to see an explanation of the Chosen 35 Rule where 35 teams come to the track with one goal in mind and the rest of the schlumps are forced to come to the track basically with the prime goal of just making the race? How's THAT for parity?
 
If you come close to failing, you still pass, right? Is there a rule that says you can only come withing a certaing limit of the maximum or minimum limits? WTF?!
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Sounds like some other teams (Roush, Gibbs, Hendrick) have been doing some whining because their cars aren't winning every race and leading the points as has been the norm in the pat.
 
And the 11 & 48 don't pass the height checks on the initial post-race inspection but pass after they "cool off" and nothing is said about it.
 
More NASCAR BS. I don't get it eather, from the way the rest of the world works the car either passed or it did not pass. "NASCAR discovered the back end of the Chevrolet was very close to its mandated tolerance levels." I myself would like to ask NASCAR what in the hell that means.
 
wolfcub said:
NASCAR forces these guys to toll the line of not complying the way they mandate thse cars now so Clint's Car passed inspection barely but "NASCAR warns RCR on Bowyer’s Chase-clinching car" and they will not give the car back until they have a meeting. Pushing the envelope is not agianst the rules yet NASCAR makes them do it and then acts like they did something wrong. What am I missing here?
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Sounds to me like NASCAR's getting ready to get that pencil out to write a new rule. Kinda like Ray Evernham & Jeff Gordon's T-Rex car @ the 1997 All-Star race.

Flashback to Evernham in 1997.....
"That car had no cheating on it," said Evernham, then Gordon's crew chief at Hendrick Motorsports. "That car was built by what the rules were, and it never became illegal until after The Winston when NASCAR wrote rules to make the car illegal."
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mike honcho said:
And the 11 & 48 don't pass the height checks on the initial post-race inspection but pass after they "cool off" and nothing is said about it.
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I couldn't imagine a Chase racer getting docked points at this stage. That would certainly take away from Brains 11th hour magic moment.
If it was Biffle, they'd have probably shoved it right up his can, but not the 48, or 11.
Then again, Jr got docked for swearing at dega'.
MoMike
 
mike honcho said:
And the 11 & 48 don't pass the height checks on the initial post-race inspection but pass after they "cool off" and nothing is said about it.
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That really sounds fishy to me, when things get hot they expand and contract when they cool sounds to me like they would be lower when they cool ???
 
de7xwcc said:
That really sounds fishy to me, when things get hot they expand and contract when they cool sounds to me like they would be lower when they cool ???
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Maybe they're water based suspension parts, and the temps dipped below 32, and they froze,........ and expanded........:D:D:D :growl:
MoMike
 
RCR found a gray area and capitalized on it. Now NASCAR needs a rule to fix it. Jayski is reporting that their New Hampshire car will be triple inspected. Hmmmmmm
 
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