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By admin, July 31, 2009 5:14 pm

More COT penalties for DEI and HMS? Possible driver suspensions?

France also said NASCAR is investigating reports that crew chiefs Chad Knaus, Steve Letarte and Tony Eury Jr. were at New Hampshire International Speedway last weekend despite their suspensions. All three are banned from the garage area during their suspensions, but the national television and radio broadcasts both reported the Hendrick Motorsports crew chiefs were on track property and in communication with their drivers.

Rules are rules and rules are said to be broken. It’s only when someone learns a way to bend the rules or get around them people begins to make excuses on both sides.
Common sense tells us it’s wrong, although we have what seems to be a reasonable excuse to continue to break the rule.
Does NASCAR have to spell everything out? Black is black and white is white, follow the dotted lines and everything will be fine.
No communication means just that, the crew chiefs went beyond the boarder and continued to break NASCAR’s rules. I say suspend the crew chiefs for the whole season who repeatingly breaks the rules AND suspend ALL the drivers of the owners of the teams those crew chiefs came from. Then from there, I bet the bending of rules stops cold.

Dale Earnhardt Jr stands during the National Anthem 6/28/09