Have you ever gotten a speeding ticket? If the answer’s yes, did you try telling the officer, ‘that wasn’t my intent’? Or maybe you were just a MPH or two over the limit, did you try telling him, ‘I wasn’t speeding that much’? When he got done laughing at you, did he still write you [...]
Posts Tagged ‘penalty’
Gibbs Ultimately Owns This Penalty
April 25th, 2013 
Journo 
Posted in NASCAR News, The Business of NASCAR 
Tags: appeals panel, Carl Long, Engine, Jason Ratliff, Joe Gibbs Racing, Matt Kenseth, NASCAR, penalty, Toyota 
7 Comments »The Physics of Carl’s Restart Penalty
April 30th, 2012 Journo A late race penalty on a restart for what some think was a questionable caution at Richmond set into motion circumstances that likely shifted the outcome of the race Saturday night. Once again, NASCAR’s restart rules claimed a victim – this time, Carl Edwards. Angry after the race, Edwards said NASCAR had repeatedly told his [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: Building Speed, Carl Edwards, NASCAR, penalty, Richmond, Robin Pemberton 9 Comments »A Turbulent Start to the NASCAR Off-Season
November 29th, 2011 Journo We’re just a week into the NASCAR off-season and the changes are coming fast and heavy. Layoffs Around The shoe hasn’t dropped everywhere just yet, but so far Roush Fenway has undertaken a massive layoff that we’ve heard was as many as 125 employees. This included many long-time Roush employees. What’s loyalty worth in this [...]
Kyle Got What Kyle Deserved
November 7th, 2011 Journo The responsibility over the past two or three seasons we’ve given back to the drivers came I think with a very clear understanding that there could be a line that got crossed. As annoying as the comments that I’ve made personally in the past about ‘we’ll know it when we see it’ might have been, [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous Tags: jgr, Joe Gibbs Racing, Kyle Busch, penalty, RCR, Richard Childress, Ron Hornday Jr, suspension 35 Comments »NASCAR Takes Wins Away?!
July 25th, 2011 T.C. Last weekend at New Hampshire was a big weekend for Ryan Newman. Not only did he pick up his first Cup Series win of the season, but he also took down his third straight Whelen Modified win at the track. Newman won in a car owned and prepared by Earnhardt Ganassi Racing crew chief Kevin [...]
Posted in NASCAR News Tags: Bono Manion, modified, NASCAR, new hampshire, penalty, ryan newman, Whelen, win 14 Comments »NASCAR Admission Refreshing
May 3rd, 2011 Journo With all eyes focused on the Montoya/Newman feud and Trevor Bayne’s health this weekend, you may have missed a NASCAR Series Director admitting they made an officiating mistake. Crazy, but true. Nationwide Series Director Joe Balash said that penalizing Carl Edwards for “servicing outside the box” in Friday’s race wasn’t correct because Edwards was within [...]
Posted in The Business of NASCAR Tags: Carl Edwards, Joe Balash, NASCAR, Nationwide Series, penalty, roush fenway, steve o'donnell 4 Comments »Pit Road And How To Legally Speed
March 20th, 2011 T.C. During Sunday’s Jeff Byrd 500 at Bristol, there was a sequence of pit stops in which it was shown on TV that Jimmie Johnson was actually passing cars on pit road. There was some question and discussion about how it could be possible that he would be able to pass cars and not get caught [...]
Posted in NASCAR News, Pit Road Explained Tags: bristol, Jimmie Johnson, NASCAR, penalty, pit road, segment, speeding, timing and scoring, transponder 26 Comments »Is It Time To Start Taking Away Wins?
February 25th, 2011 Journo NASCAR issued the inaugural fines of the season on Tuesday – in fact they were the inaugural fines for a newish team too. If you missed the penalty announcement or the act itself, NASCAR found: The No. 15 truck driven by Michael Waltrip was to be in violation of Sections 12-1 (actions detrimental to stock [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: Billy Ballew, Michael Waltrip, NASCAR, penalty, spoiler, Vision Aviation Racing 25 Comments »Holy Cow! That Was A Race
November 8th, 2010 Journo What we saw on Sunday is why we continue to watch this sport. There were a record number of leaders, beating and banging, pit road missteps, triumphs, heartbreak, fights and fingers. That was a race I don’t think anyone will soon forget. Don’t Mess with NASCAR Kyle Busch learned this lesson Sunday. After getting spun [...]
Ask The Insiders Wednesday #94
September 28th, 2010 T.C. Two Chase races down, eight to go. While the Truck Series is off this weekend, the Cup and NNS cars head west to Kansas. While we work through another week, here is the 94th round of reader questions and answers. If you don’t know what this post is, we answer any and all reader questions every Wednesday, right here. So [...]
