Kasey Kahne Penalty

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I watched only portions of Sunday Night's NBC NASCAR coverage and at one point NASCAR penalized Kasey Kahne for speeding. It was Bill Weber and Wally Dallenbach's simultanious beliefs that Dale Jr. should have been penalized as well for speeding (as he was clearly going FASTER than Kahne) and for pushing Kahne to higher speeds. I noticed whenthey crossed the commit cone, Junior was two or three arlengths behind Kahne and just inched closer and closer to him.

This to me represents a double-standard by NASCAR to have penalized Kasey Kahne and not addressed Dale Jr.

Wally Dallenbach generally seems to agree with NASCAR on their calls and often brings perspective to a different side on a controversial decision but even he seemed to think that NASCAR just blew it.

It doesn't surprise me anymore when Dale Jr. and Jeff Gordon catch cautions at the right moment to get the lucky dog or get off unaddressed when violating a rule but this one really shocked me.

Anyone else's thoughts?
 
I think you are in left field thinking the penalty was unfair. It was stated that the penalty occurred after jr turned into his pit. As far as favoring jr and Gordon, pure speculation.
 
Here's a twist that will throw all the Roushies in a tizzy......


What if NASCAR tried to penalize Kahne so Martin, Edwards, and Biffle would have a better chance to get into The Chase?:eek:


Wow....A conspiracy to put all of Roush's teams in The Chase? Who'da thunk it?? Everyone knows its set up for Jr so he can win a championship!!
 
fergy1370 said:
Here's a twist that will throw all the Roushies in a tizzy......


What if NASCAR tried to penalize Kahne so Martin, Edwards, and Biffle would have a better chance to get into The Chase?:eek:


Wow....A conspiracy to put all of Roush's teams in The Chase? Who'da thunk it?? Everyone knows its set up for Jr so he can win a championship!!
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Ohoh....now you are really trying to stir up the pot.....:growl:
 
muggle not said:
I think you are in left field thinking the penalty was unfair. It was stated that the penalty occurred after jr turned into his pit. As far as favoring jr and Gordon, pure speculation.
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I agree, muggle. In Victory Lane, Kasey said it was for the section right after the start/finish line ---- Junior had already hit his pit.
 
Actually Fergy, I did think of that, but that went away quickly. As for them saying that the penalty was after Earnhardt had pitted, I do believe that was just an excuse and pardon me if I am a believer that NASCAR does favor an Earnhardt. But that's not just me and is for another thread. One can say all they want that after Earnhardt peeled off, Kahne sped up, but if you really believe that, you're pretty naive. I think that they probably found Kasey to be speeding slightly, but didn't pay attention to anyone else at the time and when they did call it, he was by himself.

But it's all water under the bridge because he came back with a lesser car than both Earnhardt and Gordon and beat them to the flag. Justice prevailed. And I'm an Earnhardt and Gordon fan too. :)
 
I think they'd have to penalise more cars than the #9 to get MacMurray into the chase. So there goes that theory.
 
Well if you think about it, NASCAR has srewed Martin over in the past bigtime. I really think Mark was screwed out of it in 2002, there were incidents that Tony was involved in that were far more detremential to racing than Mark and NASCAR just let them slide without taking points, whereas Mark sustaned two penalties including one at Charlotte that incidently is the same hat Johnson got off with at Vegas one year ago.
 
Let me get my boots on cause the BS is starting to pile up
 
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