Poor Clint

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Terry

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Blindsided by his own crew. No way to recover from that hit. Too bad the drivers always have to take the hit for the managments shenanagens.
 
Childress said in a statement that the penalty was handed down because the car was out of tolerance "less than 1/16 of an inch."
"We feel certain that the cause of the car being out of tolerance by sixty thousandths of an inch, less than 1/16 of an inch, happened as a result of the wrecker hitting the rear bumper when it pushed the car into winner's circle," Childress said.
"The rear bumper was also hit on the cool down lap by other drivers congratulating Clint on his victory. That's the only logical way that the left-rear of the car was found to be high at the tech center. We will appeal NASCAR's ruling and take it all the way to the NASCAR commissioner for a final ruling, if need be."
Bowyer's car passed its initial inspection at New Hampshire on Sunday, but was taken by NASCAR back to its North Carolina research and development center for a more thorough examination. It was there that NASCAR found the rear end of the car had been manipulated.
The development came a day after NASCAR called in RCR officials to warn them that Bowyer's Chase-clinching car from the Sept. 11 race at Richmond had nearly failed inspection because its back end was very close to the mandated limits. Pemberton said that earlier warning played a part in the punishment.
Although the issues on the car at Richmond and the car at New Hampshire were not exactly the same, the infractions were in the same area of the car. Childress said his team had addressed NASCAR's issues before Sunday's race.
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Might have been torqued by a few hits of a bumper, maybe not. Not sure how NASCAR can tell, especially when talking about 1/16 of an inch.
 
Hey All,

Memo to Clint's CC.

1) Bowyer is spelled B-o-w-y-e-r not E-a-r-n-h-a-r-d-t.

2) If your warned about pushing the bar on legality on a part of the car one week - don't come back a week later and violate the rule in the same area. DOH!

3) Enjoy the fishin trip.

-Ed-
 
The other 2 RCR cars were not set up on the edge of tolerance. Bumped out of spec or not it was a dumb thing to do especially after being warned the week before.
 
I hope Clint wins his appeal. But you folks know HASHCAR politics have to come into play sooner or later, the big heads have to get their names in the media too.

Caz
 
EasyEd said:
Hey All,

Memo to Clint's CC.

1) Bowyer is spelled B-o-w-y-e-r not E-a-r-n-h-a-r-d-t.

2) If your warned about pushing the bar on legality on a part of the car one week - don't come back a week later and violate the rule in the same area. DOH!

3) Enjoy the fishin trip.

-Ed-
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It shouldn't be spelled E-a-r-h-a-r-d-t, it should be spelled K-n-a-u-s!!! But wait, Chad's never been caught cheating, has he! LOL Like hell he hasn't!!!!!! Plenty of times to be honest.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...-knaus-the-history-of-nascars-grayest-pairing
 
It might be easier to list all the crew chiefs that have not cheated at least once. It's all about pushing the limits, but not going over the limits, or at least not getting caught while over the limits. Any advantage that can be taken will be taken and I'm sure it's not just a few doing this stuff, it's all of them and often the drivers have no clue about what's in their car or what was done to it.
 
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