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UPDATE: ESPN's Terry Blount reported on Wednesday's NASCAR Now that NASCAR would NOT release the name of the substance found in the #55 intake manifold, treating it like any driver caught with substance abuse.(ESPN's NASCAR Now)(2-22-2007)
UPDATE 2: Michael Waltrip Racing vice president Ty Norris told ESPN.com Thursday that the company offered crew chief David Hyder an opportunity to come clean about the illegal additive found in the fuel system of Waltrip's Toyota following qualifying for the Daytona 500. Hyder didn't do it. In fact, he claims he can't. Norris said Hyder maintained his innocence -- even with the company promise of no termination in exchange for information. Norris said Hyder continues to say he has neither information nor answers as to what the substance is, how it was introduced into the fuel system or, ultimately, what it does. The crew chief was unavailable for comment Thursday. Hyder had been given an indefinite leave of absence with pay from Michael Waltrip Racing on top of his suspension by NASCAR. Norris said earlier this week that Hyder will not be allowed at the shop until it is determined if he had anything to do with the foreign substance that was found in Waltrip's engine during pre-qualifying inspection for last Sunday's 500. NASCAR suspended Hyder and competition director Bobby Kennedy indefinitely. Hyder also was fined $100,000 and Waltrip was penalized 100 championship points. A source close to the situation told ESPN.com last week that Hyder eventually will be fired.(ESPN.com)(2-22-2007)


Someone knew what the substance was.
 
BobbyFord said:
UPDATE: ESPN's Terry Blount reported on Wednesday's NASCAR Now that NASCAR would NOT release the name of the substance found in the #55 intake manifold, treating it like any driver caught with substance abuse.(ESPN's NASCAR Now)(2-22-2007)
UPDATE 2: Michael Waltrip Racing vice president Ty Norris told ESPN.com Thursday that the company offered crew chief David Hyder an opportunity to come clean about the illegal additive found in the fuel system of Waltrip's Toyota following qualifying for the Daytona 500. Hyder didn't do it. In fact, he claims he can't. Norris said Hyder maintained his innocence -- even with the company promise of no termination in exchange for information. Norris said Hyder continues to say he has neither information nor answers as to what the substance is, how it was introduced into the fuel system or, ultimately, what it does. The crew chief was unavailable for comment Thursday. Hyder had been given an indefinite leave of absence with pay from Michael Waltrip Racing on top of his suspension by NASCAR. Norris said earlier this week that Hyder will not be allowed at the shop until it is determined if he had anything to do with the foreign substance that was found in Waltrip's engine during pre-qualifying inspection for last Sunday's 500. NASCAR suspended Hyder and competition director Bobby Kennedy indefinitely. Hyder also was fined $100,000 and Waltrip was penalized 100 championship points. A source close to the situation told ESPN.com last week that Hyder eventually will be fired.(ESPN.com)(2-22-2007)


Someone knew what the substance was.
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Anyone here that believes UPDATE 2... I've got this oceanfront lot in Arizona I want to talk to you about!
Betsy:rolleyes:
 
My parents used to tell me that I'd not be punished for telling the truth ... and they were right. The punishment I'd get for breathing too loud immediately afterwards was another thing entirely.

As it stands .... This is spin at it's least impressive.
 
i dont really see whats so wrong with telling people what it was.. granted then we'd know he knew, but still.. im more curious as to know what it is..
 
I believe it was Methadone from Anna Nicole. Now we'll never know.
 
David Hyder has not talked yet.When he does I think Nascar may have more problems. Michael, I believe, made the mistake of trying to make Hyder the sacrifical lamb instead of keeping his mouth shut and letting everything blow over.
 
HYDER??

Nope! Not a chance anyone would devulge information to get even! Money talks..remember that. The guys laid off either do NOT know or were well paid to keep their mouth shut!
I am amazed that we are not seeing other camps saying what the stuff even COULD be. Leads me to think that either EVERYONE knows or nobody has even a hint of what it is. One of those fancy engineers must have come up with something that has never been used before or EVERYONE has used it before..
The question is WHICH?
Betsy :confused:
 
NASCAR's way of handling the PR fallout from these things has always followed a pattern. The story explodes, the tour moves on and then it all fades away and becomes something we talk and laugh about years later. This one isn't playing out that way. Waltrip messed up by publicly airing his defense and playing the victim, assuming Hyder would play the game and go along with it.
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Reckon, Michael has finally stuck his foot in his mouth.

Good read. :)
 
muggle not said:
This is a good article by Ed Hardin in today's News-Record of Greensboro on the Waltrip cheating scandal.:

http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbc...25/NEWSREC0105/702250346/1028/NEWSREC02050701
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Thanks muggle not........ That was a good read. Especially this part:

"Publicly, the rest of the tour has had to be careful about what it says about this because there never has been a scandal played out quite like this one. A driver has never publicly gone after his own crew chief. Privately, almost to a person, the garage supports Hyder and considers Waltrip's actions to be a shameless publicity stunt using his team, wife and 9-year-old daughter as props"
 
I AM LOVE'N THIS!

All the posturing continues, and Trinity's David Hyder waits patiently to tell his side of the story. You think this has been good so far? This could get better.

A lot better.

A week removed from the controversial finish to a controversial week at Daytona, Hyder is yet to break the silence on what some consider the biggest cheating scandal in racing history. Of course, it's not. It's just the biggest this week.

In the days since the NASCAR tour left one coast for the other, the noise out of the Michael Waltrip camp is still rattling around. Through a series of statements and carefully worded comments at carefully chosen times, the team has attempted to paint one of its own into a corner.

Hyder, the Waltrip Racing crew chief currently on a forced leave of absence, isn't playing the game. He has been accused of being the person who doctored the fuel of Waltrip's slow Toyota before Daytona 500 qualifying with something yet unknown. Hyder was escorted out of the garage area at Daytona International Speedway along with team competition director Bobby Kennedy by NASCAR officials bent on making an example of Waltrip and his start-up race team.

NASCAR said it didn't know the identity of the substance found in the manifold atop Waltrip's engine, though a NASCAR spokesman said: "We know what it's not."

That isn't true. Until they know what it is, they won't know what it's not. But that hasn't stopped NASCAR or Waltrip or Waltrip Racing from publicly implicating Hyder as the sole suspect.

"We removed the people who, if they didn't know, should've known," said NASCAR's Jim Hunter.

Hyder was penalized $100,000 and suspended indefinitely by NASCAR in the days leading up to the new team's attempt to debut in the biggest race of the year. Embarrassed and indignant, Waltrip Racing quickly began a public relations campaign to save face and pin the whole thing on Hyder.

Reached during Speedweeks, Hyder said he would talk in due time. His only comments since the NASCAR suspension have been to the News & Record. He is even refusing to cooperate with team investigators, who said they had offered Hyder an option of keeping his job by coming clean.

Hyder basically told Waltrip Racing vice president Ty Norris to stick it in his manifold. Hyder isn't playing the game we've come to know, the one where the crew chief accepts the blame and everyone moves on and acts like it never happened. That's in part because Waltrip isn't acting like it never happened. He has said publicly that this is an investigation of one man who acted alone and sabotaged the race team, dishonoring Waltrip in the eyes of his Japanese bosses and American sponsors. Waltrip, the team owner, claims to know nothing about the events that led to NASCAR's discovery of a fuel additive in the intake manifold of his Toyota Camry.

Almost everyone in the Daytona garage had the same response.

"Right."

Publicly, the rest of the tour has had to be careful about what it says about this because there never has been a scandal played out quite like this one. A driver has never publicly gone after his own crew chief. Privately, almost to a person, the garage supports Hyder and considers Waltrip's actions to be a shameless publicity stunt using his team, wife and 9-year-old daughter as props.

NASCAR's way of handling the PR fallout from these things has always followed a pattern. The story explodes, the tour moves on and then it all fades away and becomes something we talk and laugh about years later. This one isn't playing out that way. Waltrip messed up by publicly airing his defense and playing the victim, assuming Hyder would play the game and go along with it.

This won't end well. If this story continues to develop the way it has started, it will become the most interesting scandal since Petty Enterprises and an illegal engine at Charlotte in 1983. Waltrip's inability to qualify for today's race will only infuriate the team even more. Already it has been suggested that Kennedy, the competition director who was also kicked out of Daytona by NASCAR officials, has agreed to help investigate the matter. In other words, he, too, has turned on Hyder.

The suspicion in the garage area runs deep. NASCAR was too quick to point out that this situation had nothing to do with Toyota, which might be true but was impossible to know when NASCAR said it. The governing body came to that conclusion before the lab analysis was even completed, which only added to the suspicion.

This whole episode flies in the face of any cheating scandal before it. NASCAR generally wants these things to go away quickly. It will be interesting to see how that happens now that everyone has rushed to judge one man, and that one man refused to play along.
 
So why is Hyder waiting to show his cards and tell all that he knows?
......cash offers maybe?

if he had no knowledge of the "substance" he must surely be some pissed
 
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