M.Waltrip's NASCAR Toyota In Trouble???
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http://www.speedtv.com/articles/nascar/nextel/35382/
This won't make the suits happy, and it does not look too promising for Mikey either.
EDIT: Mods please edit title to state "M. Waltrip"
This won't make the suits happy, and it does not look too promising for Mikey either.
EDIT: Mods please edit title to state "M. Waltrip"
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AP sports is reporting that Waltrip's/Toyota Camry faces additional penalties more severe than 4 other team's suspended crew chiefs over cheating of all things.
Unreal, this was part of a very important debut, how can something like this happen?
What penalties are more severe than a crew chief suspension?
Unreal, this was part of a very important debut, how can something like this happen?
What penalties are more severe than a crew chief suspension?
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AP sports is reporting that Waltrip's/Toyota Camry faces additional penalties more severe than 4 other team's suspended crew chiefs over cheating of all things.
Unreal, this was part of a very important debut, how can something like this happen?
What penalties are more severe than a crew chief suspension?
Unreal, this was part of a very important debut, how can something like this happen?
What penalties are more severe than a crew chief suspension?
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The other 4 have already been docked points for what they were found to have as well as crew chief suspended and this says more severe than that, for a part they found and substance found in the manifold.
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I smell sabotage...I just cannot see Toyota wanting any bad press for their debut in Nascar
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AP sports is reporting that Waltrip's/Toyota Camry faces additional penalties more severe than 4 other team's suspended crew chiefs over cheating of all things.
Unreal, this was part of a very important debut, how can something like this happen?
What penalties are more severe than a crew chief suspension?
Unreal, this was part of a very important debut, how can something like this happen?
What penalties are more severe than a crew chief suspension?
So far they took away points from two other teams, but of course, thats not in the news... you would think it never happened... lol.
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#55 M. Waltrip's Crew Chief and Team Manager Suspended Indefinitely
http://www.speedtv.com/articles/nascar/nextel/35387/
Additionally the team was docked 100 points along with a 100 driver points.
#55 M. Waltrip's Crew Chief and Team Manager Suspended Indefinitely
http://www.speedtv.com/articles/nascar/nextel/35387/
Additionally the team was docked 100 points along with a 100 driver points.
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More details and a $100,000 fine for the crew chief. TRD senior VP and GM expressed concern over the future of the relationship with Buffy and Mikey.
LINKAGE--> http://msn.foxsports.com/nascar/story/6474096
LINKAGE--> http://msn.foxsports.com/nascar/story/6474096
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I know how much we all love jumping to conclusions but everyone should just wait and see what happens. NASCAR has impounded the car and hauled it off to their facility for a few quick tests. The worst part is that when they let them get the backup car and try to run it, shebang, the same deposit happened meaning "the substance" was probably in the fuel system and not just the manifold runners. And it was in the backup as well as the primary car.
I applaud those of you who are already seeing sabotage in this in a racing series, like most, that has a long and rich history of cheating. BMW has to be behind this somewhere. Let NASCAR rip the car apart and see what they find. I truly doubt that someone put a sterno can in the fuel system to boost the fuel. Of all the things that NASCAR cheaters have "tinkered" around with, gasoline isn't usually one of them. Definitely not the case in F1 where the top teams at one time had highly engineered fuels designed by their sponsor. Didn't even look like gasoline but more like a gel. Then again, where would Mikey and Buffy get access to F1 fuel technology? I also suspect that unless NASCAR has given Mikey a clean bill of health, and get really torqued off, they could just say no DAYTONA for Mikey. It's all just speculation but evidently it was obvious that Mikey had found something out for qualification as he picked up a couple of seconds. Hard to understand this really as the little I have read indicate that the Toyota motor is not down on power. Strange.
I applaud those of you who are already seeing sabotage in this in a racing series, like most, that has a long and rich history of cheating. BMW has to be behind this somewhere. Let NASCAR rip the car apart and see what they find. I truly doubt that someone put a sterno can in the fuel system to boost the fuel. Of all the things that NASCAR cheaters have "tinkered" around with, gasoline isn't usually one of them. Definitely not the case in F1 where the top teams at one time had highly engineered fuels designed by their sponsor. Didn't even look like gasoline but more like a gel. Then again, where would Mikey and Buffy get access to F1 fuel technology? I also suspect that unless NASCAR has given Mikey a clean bill of health, and get really torqued off, they could just say no DAYTONA for Mikey. It's all just speculation but evidently it was obvious that Mikey had found something out for qualification as he picked up a couple of seconds. Hard to understand this really as the little I have read indicate that the Toyota motor is not down on power. Strange.
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