"YOU'RE OUTTTAAAAA HERE!"
ESPN is reporting:
"DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Kasey Kahne and Matt Kenseth will begin the Nextel Cup season with negative points and without their crew chiefs as a result of violations discovered Sunday during post-qualifying inspection for the Daytona 500.
Kenny Francis, the team director for Kahne, and Kenseth's Robby Reiser have been told by NASCAR officials that they are ejected from the 500 and will be suspended for multiple races."
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If Kahne and Kenseth get points taking away this is compete bs. Last year Johnson didnt, chad got 4 races and $25k fines, They have a history of being caught. As far as I can remember Reiser or Francis have never been caught.
Here's the official word. Ouch.
FOUR NASCAR NEXTEL CUP SERIES CREW CHIEFS SUSPENDED
Suspensions Start With Daytona 500, Accompanied By Fines And Point Penalties
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Feb. 13, 2007) – NASCAR announced Tuesday that four NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series crew chiefs have been suspended from competition, starting with Sunday’s season-opening Daytona 500.
Two of the four – Ken Francis, crew chief for the No. 9 Dodge driven by Kasey Kahne; and Robbie Reiser, crew chief for the No. 17 Ford of Matt Kenseth – have been suspended for four races and fined $50,000.
Also, Kahne and Kenseth were penalized with the loss of 50 driver championship points while their car owners, Ray Evernham and Jack Roush, were penalized 50 car owner championship points.
The violations by the No. 9 and No. 17 teams were found during post-qualifying inspection on Feb. 11. Both teams’ qualifying times were disallowed.
Two others – Rodney Childers, crew chief for the No. 10 Dodge driven by Scott Riggs; and Josh Browne, crew chief for the No. 19 Dodge driven by Elliott Sadler – have been suspended for two races and fined $25,000. In addition, Riggs and Sadler were penalized 25 driver championship points while their car owners, James Rocco and Evernham, were penalized 25 car owner championship points.
The violations by the No. 10 and No. 19 teams were found prior to qualifying.
In each instance the violations were of Sections 12-4-A (actions detrimental to stock car racing), 12-4-Q (car, car parts components and/or equipment not conforming to NASCAR rules) and 20-2.1E (unapproved aerodynamic modification) of the series rule book.
I think this is a conspiracy theory to keep Kahne and Kenseth down. If the number 9 really did cheat, why was the qualifying time worse than the times in both practices?
like i said early, how come points, Johnson has been caught 5,6,7 times and never been docked points, these are all first time offenders, wtf, with what nascar has done in canada, and now this, i am losing interest FAST
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