Biffle will not receive penalty from NASCAR
Quote selected text Published March 28th, 2007 in NASCAR News
NASCAR will not penalize Greg Biffle’s #16 team, despite the fact his Ford was found to be too low in post-race inspection at Bristol Motor Speedway, NASCAR vice president for competition Robin Pemberton said Wednesday. NASCAR has scheduled a news conference for Friday morning at Martinsville Speedway to explain their reasoning in detail.
NASCAR took the #16 car back to its research and development center Sunday night after the Food City 500 and gave it a thorough inspection Monday. Officials determined that no unapproved adjustments had been made to the car, so NASCAR cleared the machine and returned it to Roush-Fenway Racing on Monday afternoon.
The 2007 season began with a new, less tolerant approach toward rules violators, prompting many to suspect that Biffle and his team would receive a stiff penalty following the Bristol mishap. But NASCAR officials said the Car of Tomorrow is a work in progress, and that they anticipated the cars would lose some height during the race at Bristol.
Officials ran eight cars through the height sticks during post-race inspection, and Biffle’s was the only one that came back too low. Before making any permanent changes, NASCAR said it will likely make some rules adjustments in the future that benefit everyone.
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At least NASCAR didnt go over board with the penalty phase because of Biffles car.. (Not a Biffle fan either) BUT I race dirt and if you are found illegal you get NO POINTS or NO MONEY, and PAY A FINE!! If you cheat your DQ’d!! Not docked 50 points or what not. The rest of the field should then be moved up 1 position and pay should be adjusted accordingly. I was at Bristol for the race, the wings look terrible kinda like a sprint car ( how stupid) The racing was no different from a live view compared to the past but time will tell when they get to Darlington and Phoenix. I hope Nascar just didnt make the teams spend more money ” trying to help them save money”