June 9th, 2010 
Journo NASCAR made the official penalty announcement today for the #38 Front Row Motorsports team. Though we reported hearing about possible record penalties yesterday, the final verdict from NASCAR was not quite as severe.
Crew chief Steve Lane, car chief Richard Bourgeois and tire specialist Michael Harrold have all been suspended for 12 races. Additionally Lane was fined $100,000, and the team was docked 150 owner and driver points.
The team was found to be in violation of rule 12-1 (actions detrimental to stock car racing), rule 12-4-J (any determination by NASCAR officials that the race equipment used in the event does not conform to NASCAR rules), and rule 20-10.7J (unapproved modification to valve stem hardware).
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So if the big 3 of what not to mess with are engine/tires/fuel, why are infractions for the big 3 different penalties, 200 for the engine, 150 for the tires & 100 points for the fuel. I would think that tampering with these 3 things would land the highest penalty and NASCAR would be consistent with a hefty points penalty & fine. I’m not saying that a 150 & 100 points penalty is not hefty, but why not 200 points for messing with the fuel or tires?
Also…. I’m basing these penalties on Doug in Tacoma’s earlier comments.
Jenkins claimed it was an ‘unintentional mistake’. That suggests that there is a legitimate use for the bleeders (if not, why have them at all?) and that the mistake was in not taking them out prior to the race. Make any sense to you?
After the Carl Long penalty, it looks like NASCAR reconsidered its penalty structure. Good move. The money, points and suspensions seem fair for this violation of this magnitude.
But at least NASCAR recognized that it didn’t want to put a team out of business over a fine. The points and suspensions mean more to the big teams, anyway, so the message was sent across the board to all teams.
Once again, Nascar uses situational penalties.
Nothing against FRM as I tend to pull for this team, but this seems to be a very clear attempt at gaining an advantage (cheating) with what was thought to be one of the items that is taboo to mess with.
Nascar has showed in the past that they have no problem putting a team out of business for what was in reality a very minor infraction, i.e. Carl Long,(outside the rules, yes, cheating, I hardly think so,).
Guess the difference is, Nascar could not risk putting all three FRM teams out of business. We’d be down to 43 teams on most weeks.What would Fridays be with out the heart stopping excitement of as SPEED calls it, “Knock Out Qualifiying”.