Hamlin fined for comments

@JennaFryer
Best part in all this? Robin Pemberton was regularly scheduled for a 3:35 eastern news conference. Buckle up.
 
The team owner gets the check, not the driver. Big can of worms if they deduct it from JGR check.
 
@bobpockrass
#NASCAR rule: "All unpaid fines of a member may be collected by NASCAR by deducting the amount from the purse or point fund earnings."
 
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Terry Blount
Hamlin says he's mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. No doubt that will result in another NASCAR fine.
 
@SiriusXMNASCAR
Listen to @NASCAR VP of Competition, Robin Pemberton LIVE at 3:35 PM ET as he meets with the media. @dennyhamlin & other topics. SXM ch. 90
 
It's funny on one hand fans want NASCAR to be like other sports when it comes to things like the Chase but when they fine their players, like other sports do, there's a problem. Just an observation.
 
@dustinlong
#NASCAR's Robin Pemberton on Hamlin penalty: "You can't slam your racing. You can't slam your product. That's where it crosses the line.''
 


Denny Hamlin fine an overreaction that could damage NASCAR’s credibility

LAS VEGAS — NASCAR fining Denny Hamlin for offering an honest assessment of its new Sprint Cup car should make drivers in the garage cringe.

Yes, they know they can be fined for making disparaging comments about the sport. But in the past, those fines weren’t for comments about how a car handles. In the past, some fines were even understandable.

This one? Not so much. Fining Hamlin $25,000 fine was a gross overreaction that could damage NASCAR’s credibility.

It’s a fine that could discourage drivers from offering honest, genuine opinions about the sport, possibly stifling the outspoken and colorful personality that NASCAR and fans have said they want to see from the sport's drivers.

In the past, drivers were fined for such things as telling fans to stay home if they only wanted to see wrecks or for claiming that NASCAR officials threw a caution flag to bunch up the field and manipulate the outcome of a race or for saying that fuel injection was a public relations ploy with not much racing benefit.

Hamlin’s fine appears to be different. He gave an honest assessment of the racing last week at Phoenix International Raceway.
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Read the rest here.
 
@dustinlong
#NASCAR … Driver interviews from now on: Reporter: What do you think of the racing with the new car? Driver: "I like cookies!''
 
Denny Hamlin's comments on NASCAR fine
Hamlin:

"I’ll be honest. I’m not going to say anything for the rest of the year, as long as it relates to competition. You can ask me how my daughter is, talk to me after wins about what-have-you, but as long as it relates to competition, I’m out, from here on out.

"The bad part is that I feel like I’ve been a pretty good spokesman for them, and being positive when things aren’t always positive. They just lost one small spokesman today—that’s all.
For what I understand, it’s comparing the Gen-6 car to the Gen-5, comparing the two. I shouldn’t have done that.

"Ultimately, I’m not OK with it. This is the most upset and angry I’ve been in a really, really long time, about anything, anything that relates to NASCAR. You have strong opinions about a lot of things, whether it be Clements’ suspension, things like that. A lot of people hold their tongues, and some people don’t—like Brad. The truth is what the truth is, and I don’t believe in this. I’m never going to believe in it. As far as I’m concerned, I’m not going to pay the fine. If they suspend me, they suspend me. I don’t care at this point.

"It’s an opinion, and it’s not even a bad one. I’ve got to be careful, because I don’t want to make things worse than they already are, and this is something that was absolutely nothing that got blown into to something, and it’s just going to be worse for them. So let them deal with it."
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
Denny Hamlin's comments on NASCAR fine
Hamlin:

"I’ll be honest. I’m not going to say anything for the rest of the year, as long as it relates to competition. You can ask me how my daughter is, talk to me after wins about what-have-you, but as long as it relates to competition, I’m out, from here on out.

"The bad part is that I feel like I’ve been a pretty good spokesman for them, and being positive when things aren’t always positive. They just lost one small spokesman today—that’s all.
For what I understand, it’s comparing the Gen-6 car to the Gen-5, comparing the two. I shouldn’t have done that.

"Ultimately, I’m not OK with it. This is the most upset and angry I’ve been in a really, really long time, about anything, anything that relates to NASCAR. You have strong opinions about a lot of things, whether it be Clements’ suspension, things like that. A lot of people hold their tongues, and some people don’t—like Brad. The truth is what the truth is, and I don’t believe in this. I’m never going to believe in it. As far as I’m concerned, I’m not going to pay the fine. If they suspend me, they suspend me. I don’t care at this point.

"It’s an opinion, and it’s not even a bad one. I’ve got to be careful, because I don’t want to make things worse than they already are, and this is something that was absolutely nothing that got blown into something, and it’s just going to be worse for them. So let them deal with it."
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+1
 
FenderBumper said:
RaceTalkRadio NASCAR‏@RaceTalkRadio
#NASCAR stat from @PhoenixRaceway there were only 4 green flag passes for lead during the race, none in last 185 laps of the race

Thems the facts.
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uh nope.....
12 among 9 drivers: M. Martin 1-49; J. Montoya 50-56; G. Biffle 57-64; J. Montoya 65-69; G. Biffle 70-100; M. Martin 101-126; B. Keselowski 127-142; D.
Ragan 143-145; C. Edwards 146-189; J. Johnson 190; D. Reutimann 191; D. Earnhardt Jr. 192-238; C. Edwards 239-316
 
StandOnIt said:
uh nope.....
12 among 9 drivers: M. Martin 1-49; J. Montoya 50-56; G. Biffle 57-64; J. Montoya 65-69; G. Biffle 70-100; M. Martin 101-126; B. Keselowski 127-142; D.
Ragan 143-145; C. Edwards 146-189; J. Johnson 190; D. Reutimann 191; D. Earnhardt Jr. 192-238; C. Edwards 239-316
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Ragan and Reutimann passed for the lead under green????????? :rolleyes:
 
StandOnIt said:
uh nope.....
12 among 9 drivers: M. Martin 1-49; J. Montoya 50-56; G. Biffle 57-64; J. Montoya 65-69; G. Biffle 70-100; M. Martin 101-126; B. Keselowski 127-142; D.
Ragan 143-145; C. Edwards 146-189; J. Johnson 190; D. Reutimann 191; D. Earnhardt Jr. 192-238; C. Edwards 239-316
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ya missed the part about lead changes happening under a green flag

virtually all of the lead change you listed happened under yellow
 
There are a few things that most of the people on here do realize. It's nascars sandbox and if they want to fine Kasey Kahne for his haircut being detrimental to stock car racing then so be it. In corporations worldwide if you say or do the wrong thing one time you are in the unemployment line post haste, and why? Its their sandbox. Nascar and all businesses have a perception, fair or not, of how their brand will be portrayed and if someone crosses the line the results are usually swift and final. Their idea is "let us handle the fans, cutomers, clients or whatever and you toe the corporate line" because that is the way business and the world works.
 
Johali said:
There are a few things that most of the people on here do realize. It's nascars sandbox and if they want to fine Kasey Kahne for his haircut being detrimental to stock car racing then so be it. In corporations worldwide if you say or do the wrong thing one time you are in the unemployment line post haste, and why? Its their sandbox. Nascar and all businesses have a perception, fair or not, of how their brand will be portrayed and if someone crosses the line the results are usually swift and final. Their idea is "let us handle the fans, cutomers, clients or whatever and you toe the corporate line" because that is the way business and the world works.
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When I hear Walmart, Exxon or any other corporation tell the world their 'employees' should have at it and speak their mind, all that will make sense. There wasn't even a hint of slamming or denegrating the racing, nascar or the damn car. He said what the racing was, and said it will take some time.
 
Johali said:
There are a few things that most of the people on here do realize. It's nascars sandbox and if they want to fine Kasey Kahne for his haircut being detrimental to stock car racing then so be it. In corporations worldwide if you say or do the wrong thing one time you are in the unemployment line post haste, and why? Its their sandbox. Nascar and all businesses have a perception, fair or not, of how their brand will be portrayed and if someone crosses the line the results are usually swift and final. Their idea is "let us handle the fans, cutomers, clients or whatever and you toe the corporate line" because that is the way business and the world works.
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fine and dandy, except . . .

at the XYZ Company, when the powers that be discipline Joe Blow because he walked to the beat of his own drum, it's very unlikely that any of their customers will ever find out about it

NASCAR's sand box, however, is quite visible to their entire cash-carrying fan base
 
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