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No. 14 Monster Energy Series team gets L1-level penalty post-Martinsville
Race officials determined that the SHR No. 14 Ford team was in violation of Section 20.18.5.2 in the NASCAR Rule Book, a section that relates to the TV video package. If teams are not carrying an in-car camera for a given week, they must mount a simulated weight that makes up the difference. That TV package simulated weight did not meet NASCAR specifications.

As a result, No. 14 crew chief Mike Bugarewicz has been fined $25,000 and suspended from the next Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series event. A Stewart-Haas Racing spokesperson said Wednesday that the organization will not appeal the one-race ban, and that Richard Boswell — a crew chief for the SHR No. 41 operation in the NASCAR XFINITY Series — will serve as interim crew chief in Sunday’s AAA Texas 500 at Texas Motor Speedway (2 p.m. ET, NBCSN, PRN, SiriusXM).

The No. 14 team also was docked 10 points in both the series’ owner and driver standings. Additionally, Bowyer’s third-place finish at Martinsville is ruled encumbered.
https://www.nascar.com/news-media/2017/11/01/nascar-penalty-report-martinsville-clint-bowyer
 
Boyer might be happy his crew chief isn't on top of the box, they weren't exactly seeing eye to eye at Dega recently
 
aunty dive said:
More than enough to measurably alter the center of gravity height.

Hendrick has one of these ... so does everybody else that matters. I'd guess SHR bought one when they changed manufacturers or they get their measurements at the Ford facility.

http://www.itbona.com/itbona/CFM-Schiller/VIMM.asp
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Interesting, thanks.

I'm curious to know specifically what they did to their simulated weight that didn't meet NASCAR's specs.
 
It is a technical rule. In order to make things fair and have the in car cameras which would make an unfair disadvantage of carrying more weight for camera cars, Nascar made everybody carry the same weight. Boyers genius crew chief either forgot about that and didn't install the dummy weight (not) or tried to fool Nascar by making something that looked like a camera weight but was lighter. Pissed them off it looks like. Not good trying to fool Nascar.
 
It is hilarious to hear the word "fair" mentioned in this debate as since when has Nascar racing been about being fair?
 
2 Sweet said:
Interesting, thanks.

I'm curious to know specifically what they did to their simulated weight that didn't meet NASCAR's specs.
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Ummm ... faked one that weighed 80% less, crossed their fingers, hoped inspector wouldn't order it removed / weighed.

This is the way of things. Not everything is checked every week ... especially stuff like this. I smell a rat.
 
aunty dive said:
Ummm ... faked one that weighed 80% less, crossed their fingers, hoped inspector wouldn't order it removed / weighed.

This is the way of things. Not everything is checked every week ... especially stuff like this. I smell a rat.
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Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I would assume that it was inspected for a reason, like if it didn't pass the eye test (unlikely) or if the officials had reason to believe it would fail inspection. Hard to believe they would be unlucky enough to get busted the first time they tried it......unless it isn't the first time....
 
Probably a disgruntled team that had to carry a camera and knew what the deal was with the dummy cam weights..Takes one to know one.:p
 
StandOnIt said:
It is a technical rule. In order to make things fair and have the in car cameras which would make an unfair disadvantage of carrying more weight for camera cars, Nascar made everybody carry the same weight. Boyers genius crew chief either forgot about that and didn't install the dummy weight (not) or tried to fool Nascar by making something that looked like a camera weight but was lighter. Pissed them off it looks like. Not good trying to fool Nascar.
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I recall, when roof cams were first introduced, the #6 would mount the housing every race, whether or not Martin was actually carrying a camera that week. Eventually someone ran a wind tunnel test with the housing mounted and it turned out to be an advantage.

This is all strictly from memory and it could be the result of a low-grade fever and too much NyQuil, so take it for what it's worth.
 
StandOnIt said:
Probably a disgruntled team that had to carry a camera and knew what the deal was with the dummy cam weights..Takes one to know one.:p
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It happens.

The story I heard, not sure if it's true and can't remember all the details, but the year Chase Elliott was busted for tungsten at the Snowball Derby, they had actually fired someone on the team during race weekend or something and he ended up working for I think Kyle Busch's team the rest of the weekend. Anyway, after Elliott's team let him go, Elliott went on to win the race and supposedly, he went to Ricky Brooks and told him about the tungsten.

That was a HUGE infraction too. No tungsten was written in all caps, in big bold print, and underlined in the rulebook.
 
How much do these roof cameras weigh? How does it transmit the video? Battery powered?
 
One of several cameras mounted on these machines

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all that camera does is shoot at his ass. Nascar has multiple cameras in and on top of the car, in the rear, the things are all over
 
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