Unbelievable

#11

"WildWeasel" <wweasel_24 (AT) HooYah (DOT) com> wrote

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"Dan" wrote ...
I for one am totally mystified. This isn't even one of those grey
area/matter of interpretation deal. In Nascar's own words the Knaus deal
was "blatant cheating" while the 96 team was a "legitimate mistake." Both
infractions occured at the same time and were discovered in the same
procress, yet like you said the honest mistake gets docked 25 points,
while the blatant cheating doesn't.

That's just a slap on the wrist. The Hendrick team is deep, and as Sunday
showed Chad's being gone doesn't mean diddly squat. How do they not get
penalized points, after Todd Berrier and Kevin Harvick last year. Nascar
is giving less of a penalty for something just as severe. Also add to
this that Knaus has gotten caught cheating, bending, breaking rules on
multiple occassions, and all they do is give him a 4 week vacation! Sure,
JJ may have raced a legal car on Sunday, but the point is it would have
been illegal had they not gotten caught.

But in nascar's warped reality THEY (and apparently only they) think the
suspension is WORSE than losing points. (THEY seem to not be aware that
the 48 won under these DIRE circumstances nascar placed them under as they
are still certain the suspension is *awful awful* punishment.)

Yeah what a punishment. As if Rick isn't going to give Chadley his full
salary, plus a bonus as well as pay the fine for him. Oh ouch! What
humiliation. Whatta Joke!

#12

"The Other Doug" wrote ...

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Just keep track of this for the Chase. JJ should currently be in a tie with
Stewart for 4th in points. JJ would be shown in 4th due to his "more wins"
this season but should have only 160 points.

And while you're keeping track remember that the 20 didn't get anything for
running the 17 off the track and other rough driving. The way I see it (and I
don't work for nascar, clearly) the standings might ought to look like this:

Post- Pre- Driver Pts/Bonus Post-Penalty
Penalty penalty
1 2 Casey Mears 170/0 170
2 3 Ryan Newman 170/5 170
3 4 Elliott Sadler 165/5 165
4 1 Jimmie Johnson 185/5 160
5 8 Dale Earnhardt Jr. 152/10 152
6 7 Brian Vickers 151/5 151
7 6 Clint Bowyer * 150/0 150
8 9 Ken Schrader 138/0 138
9 5 Tony Stewart 160/5 135
10 10 Dale Jarrett 134/0 134

assuming 25 from the 48 for cheating and 25 from the 20 for excessively (and
admitted) rough driving (which he thinks will kill someone) and being a
practicing hypocrite in the Bible belt.

#13

"armpit" <udontneedit (AT) myemail (DOT) addy> wrote in news:A8adnYDGqpoCSmbeRVn-
uQ (AT) comcast (DOT) com:

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Nascar penalizes the 96 more heavily for an honest mistake than they
penalize the 48 for flat out deliberate cheating.

They also penalized Kenseth far more for his little brush against Stewart
than they did Stewart for his obvious intentional wrecking of Kenseth. Lord
hope any of these guys ain't in St. Peter's Gate.

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