Thursday, April 18, 2013

NASCAR Seeks Revenge On Team Penske

Want to shut up a driver who is outspoken?
Fine, suspend and steal points from the team.
That's what has happened to Team Penske and Joey Logano and Brad Keslowski.
From ESPN:  NASCAR came down heavy Wednesday with penalties from inspections last weekend at Texas, suspending four members of defending Sprint Cup champion Brad Keselowski's Penske Racing team and three from teammate Joey Logano's team.
Keselowski and Logano were docked 25 points each, as were their car owners. Their crew chiefs -- Paul Wolfe for Keselowski and Todd Gordon for Logano -- were suspended for six point races and the All-Star Race and fined $100,000 each. The team engineers for each team, as well as team manager Travis Geisler, also were suspended for six point races and placed on probation until Dec. 31.
Penske Racing immediately announced plans to appeal the first major infraction with the new "Gen 6" car, which means all those suspended will remain with their teams for this weekend's race at Kansas Speedway and future races until that process is complete.  http://espn.go.com/racing/nascar/cup/story/_/id/9182346/nascar-punishes-penske-drivers-texas-missteps
If these rules violation were team violations, then why wasn't Roger Penske fined?
Unless Team Penske decided at the last minute to use illegal parts, then why did NASCAR wait until the last minute to check for it- why not inform the teams that the parts they were using were illegal?
NASCAR is run like a mini dictatorship in which the France family pretty much in charge of the sport.
If you suck up to the France family and their minions, you will do ok in the sport.  If you piss them off , like Keslowski and Logano have done this season and last, then NASCAR and France will get you and your team.

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