Richard Petty on cheating: Send the race teams home
Quote selected text Published April 6th, 2007 in NASCAR News
The only way NASCAR will control cheating is to send race teams home, seven-time champion Richard Petty said.
The man with a record 200 Nextel Cup Series victories said fines don’t work in a sport that runs with $20 million-a-team budgets.
“A fine is like making bail,” he said. “The ultimate deal will be when they set these guys aside for a race. Then they get back to their sponsorship and the general public. That will start getting people’s attention. Money doesn’t get anyone’s attention. It’s just a number whether it’s $10, $100, $1,000, $10,000, $100,000. It’s just money. It gets lost in the shuffle.”
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spot on
I agree, but this is coming from a man that was one of the cheaters in his day. Many of the ways he cheated were later allowed in NASCAR, but it was cheating at the time.
even so he has a very good point. money is nothing to these guys. i say send them home.
I do agree with him, send them home. At our local track if you are caught cheating, you lose your points and finishing position for that night. Sure makes a the points championship interesting.
I agree 100% because the money is nothing. A reserve for fines is probably figured into the budget and besides they can probably write if off. Suspending the crew chief is only a minor setback. Even though he’s not allowed at the track physically, he’s still allowed to call the shots from home.
But not letting the teams that were caught cheating race at all would definitely get their attention and maybe even curb the cheating, but that is not the only problem. The favoritism needs to stop as well. NASCAR needs to be more concise and consistent all around. We’ve already seen several inconsistencies this year at Daytona.
It worked with Kevin Harvick temper tantrums and on track run-ins a few years back. But I’d think NASCAR would never agree to that, it would cause too much negative media toward the entire sport, not just one team. Much like MLB doesn’t want the ripple effect about the players taking steriods out in the open.
I agree sending them would really piss them off more.
They can’t send the cheaters home,,,cause if they do that Hendrick will not have any cars left on sunday to race.
You have cheaters and loosers……..Cheat tell you get caught………..
They can’t send the cheaters home because none of the jap cars would ever get to race.
If Nascar is serious about stopping cheating it will listen to Richard on this subject. Richard cheated back in the day but the sanctioning body didn’t take a stand on it like they are now. I say listen to a cheater to stop a cheater on this one!
If NASCAR was truly wanting to stop cheating I agree send them home, start suspending more people, or anything that is truly going to hurt them in their points standing. Cheating is in every sport so your never going to get rid of it but you can minimiz it, and NASCAR isnt doing a very good job of it if we can tell that there is cheating going on! Making that kind of money makes the fines look like pocket change!
send them home. why bust your ass to make a legal car when you can show up with a illegal one and jus have to pay a little bit more to race?? do how they do at the local tracks.. no points or money.
I aggree with the king but I say it should be at least 2 races. That would hurt them points wise and would keep them on the up and up.
I can’t help but think this is sort of a WWF move on Nascars part. It makes fans hate drivers like Jimmie Johnson and the like. I don’t know about anyone else, but I watch to see Jr. race as well as watch in hopes of seeing Johnson pile into the wall. I don’t like the cheating but it makes sense in the ratings game.
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