Fail inspection you lose race

Revman said:
They have already shown that they are in control. They don't need to. They find something suspect, file under the elimination of a tendency provision privately. Get to the end of the year with no DQ's, and the narrative is that the problem is fixed. Is there anybody here who can visibly tell when somebody is illegal? No. Would a Crew Chief/owner/driver/whoever bitch that somebody was cheating, and NASCAR let them off? Stupid question, but not unless they wanted a piece of the DQ action. Who wins with a DQ besides the second place guy? The reason why teams go after each other is because the consequence hasn't been that big of a deal to them if the focus turns to them. You want to accuse somebody else of cheating, you had better be 100% clean all of the time. Who is that? In short, the mere fact that NASCAR instituted this policy is enough to fix the problem in the eyes of the public. It is a brilliant move.
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I guess the three that got sent home already that happened? Sure what you say can happen, but the fans taking pictures of the cars on the track caught more cars than the inspections or the teams did.
 
I haven't read all the posts but has it been brought up that the sponsor might withhold installment payments if there's a DQ? Will future contracts include penalty clauses? Will there be a clause the contract can be voided if there's more than 1 DQ?
 
Bobw said:
I haven't read all the posts but has it been brought up that the sponsor might withhold installment payments if there's a DQ? Will future contracts include penalty clauses? Will there be a clause the contract can be voided if there's more than 1 DQ?
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If contracts included penalty clauses, that would be great. Really. Bring a legal car. Make it easy on NASCAR. I mean that.
 
StandOnIt said:
I guess the three that got sent home already that happened? Sure what you say can happen, but the fans taking pictures of the cars on the track caught more cars than the inspections or the teams did.
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Who got DQ'ed?
 
Revman said:
Thanks. Still a great policy. NASCAR has the appearance of dropping the hammer. They handle things behind closed doors. Teams won't talk. The narrative is that NASCAR fixed it. Nobody gets hurt.
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WRONG The inspection process after the race is open house for all to see.
 
Formerjackman said:
I can't speak for now, as I have no direct knowledge, but that's the way it always was. I stood right there and watched a few in the Busch Series.
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It has been stated that the inspections will be pretty much the same way with reporters, fans, crew members etc being present. Fans will know if there is a problem before Nascar announces it.
 
Racer's Kelly Crandall is proving to be one of the better young Nascar reporters.
Good current article about the inspection process with Crew Chief's comments, Pearn, Gordon, Gustafson, Knaus etc. BTW they moved some cameras around in the trunk area this year.


INSIGHT: Inside NASCAR’s inspection process

https://racer.com/2019/02/11/insight-inside-nascars-inspection-process/
 
StandOnIt said:
Racer's Kelly Crandall is proving to be one of the better young Nascar reporters.
Good current article about the inspection process with Crew Chief's comments, Pearn, Gordon, Gustafson, Knaus etc. BTW they moved some cameras around in the trunk area this year.
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Interesting article. The big teams have a scanning station in their shop which gives them an advantage. It helps them prepare their cars for the track inspection but it also helps them figure out how it works and I'm guessing they use it to test their innovations.
 
Zerkfitting said:
Interesting article. The big teams have a scanning station in their shop which gives them an advantage. It helps them prepare their cars for the track inspection but it also helps them figure out how it works and I'm guessing they use it to test their innovations.
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So HMS has this machine and yet they really had a hard time last year getting passed for qualifying.
 
Zerkfitting said:
Interesting article. The big teams have a scanning station in their shop which gives them an advantage. It helps them prepare their cars for the track inspection but it also helps them figure out how it works and I'm guessing they use it to test their innovations.
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I heard the setup wasn't hugely expensive, nothing like their simulators, child's play for any of the top multi car teams to have one. Nascar has one and it is free to use for everybody else to use, so it isn't completely a have, have not deal. just not as convenient, but yeah it has to be an advantage if they have one of their own AND somebody who knows what they are doing to set it up and run it. It's pretty worthless without a good operator.
 
StandOnIt said:
so you are saying last year Hendrick had an inspection problem? I'm not sure that was their problem. Besides having fast cars this year for the 500, as they say the real season starts at Atlanta. Hendrick might not be out of the woods yet.
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The 500 qualifying is a beast unto itself. Tells us nothing that we haven't known for years---Hendrick will sacrifice handling for speed to get the prestige of the Daytona 500 pole---and I respect that. I don't know that they are the fastest. Anybody can trim their cars out, and go for it. Real speed is race speed for this race. Atlanta will tell the tale as you mentioned, and I do think that they will be completely competitive.
 
StandOnIt said:
so you are saying last year Hendrick had an inspection problem? I'm not sure that was their problem. Besides having fast cars this year for the 500, as they say the real season starts at Atlanta. Hendrick might not be out of the woods yet.
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Among all of their other problems, YES they had an inspection problem and it was embarrassing to be a fan of that organization and watch them continually shoot themselves in the foot. It cost them time on the track, it cost them starting positions and it cost them crew suspensions, NONE of which they could afford as bad as they were running. Whether they have fixed anything or not for 2019, who knows.
 
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