NASCAR Commission overturns Kyle Busch’s penalty
Quote selected text Published October 24th, 2007 in NASCAR News
The National Stock Car Racing Commission has overturned NASCAR’s penalty for Hendrick Motorsports’ No. 5 Busch Series team for an infraction in the Sept. 29 race at Kansas Speedway.
NASCAR had penalized crew chief Mike Bumgarner for “unapproved intake manifold modifications to the plenum area.” The modifications were found in postrace inspection following Busch’s victory in the Yellow Transportation 300.
“Obviously, we’re pleased with the decision,” team owner Rick Hendrick said in a news release. “We appreciate the commission giving us the opportunity to present the facts and send a clear message about our performance at Kansas. “The team prepared a race-winning car that met every rule in the book. It’s important that our fans, our sponsors and our competitors know that’s the case.”
The team contended the manifold design had been previously approved, and the manifold used at Kansas had passed inspection in previous races. Hendrick also argued that rules pertaining to intake manifolds were largely subjective when it came to enforcement.
The commission decided to rescind the penalty because the manifold did conform to “NASCAR-approved gauges and other measuring” and because Busch Series rules put “extra emphasis on a strictly visual determination of whether or not too much material has been extracted in the plenum area during the polishing process.”
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Heh. Paging all Hendrick haters! If this isn’t hater-bait I don’t know what is. Sounds like they probably were messing in a very subjective area, knowing darn good and well that it was so iffy. I can’t believe a penalty actually got overturned.
The penalty that Kyle Busch received was a joke. If you read the article then you will know why. There is not a team out that doesn’t push the limit to get the upper hand on the competition. There are rule loop holes, limits as to how far you can push these things. No one needs to hate on any team if present in the right way and the rule infraction did not actually take place then it would have been turned over for anyone.
I totally agree, Phil, but I don’t think the delusional Hendrick Haters will see things the same way. They’ll tell you that Hendrick dropped some cash on NASCAR and they made the penalty go away or some other absurd theory.
I didn’t mean I was surprised that they overturned this penalty in particular, more that they overturned a penalty at all… It seems so rare that NASCAR admits they could be wrong and corrects it, especially as far as penalties are concerned.
It will be interesting to see how many Hendrick haters there will be next year when Jr. is driving for them.
Everything Kyle drives is iffffffy!
There are NO loop holes any more in NASCAR’s rule book…NASCAR has even said making changes that cross into the “grey” area are a violation because it’s outside what is approved. They’ve busted people time and again saying that “just bescause there is no rule against it, it doesn’t mean it’s against the rules…” if it doesn’t match what IS approved you get penalized, except if you race for Hendrick of course. Cars race around for 4 hours bumping into each other and someone loses 25 championship points because a fender is a 1/4″ too low after the race. Hendrick modifies an intake manifold, a BIG NO-NO no matter when it’s done and they get off scott free. What a joke! Hendrick’s crew cheifs are the numer 1 rule breakers in NASCAR and get busted on SOME stuff but the are the ONLY team that EVER get’s anything over turned on appeal. Chad Kanaus has even publicly admitted he tries to cheat every race and will keep doing something until he gets caught…comments like that should have earned him a life time ban….but he works for Hendrick ofcourse. Teams some times make mistake, Hendrick Motor Sports cheats on purpose…there is a BIG difference.
*Edit* should read:
“just bescause there is no rule against it, it doesn’t mean it’s NOT against the rules…”
I will admit i dont like Kyle but get serious people there is no badguy here every crewchief tries to get something past nascar thats their job and i dont care who signs their paycheck they all get paid to cheat Chad is just upfront about it look at DEI this year if they wouldnt have had all them blown motors we would be talking about Tony Eury Jr because Dale Jr would be leading the points
What I don’t get is why Jr. is has engine problems while Martin has what.. one blown motor this year?
well the cheater got away with it again