NASCAR is definitely A sport! And many Gators have a big interest in it. If not I would not have spent the considerable amount of time I did in posting the info in the opening 2 posts of this thread. Did you even bother to check it out?
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Carl Long in 2009. $200k for an engine that was 0.17 cubic inches too big. Ridiculous because he leased the engine and never had it apart, just tuned it.
Childress had a $150k fine for punching Kyle Busch. That had to be worth it.
Here's the one I hate the most. I was a big Martin fan.
Mark Martin won the 1990 Pontiac Excitement 400 at Richmond, but four and-a-half hours after the race, NASCAR determined his carburetor spacer - a piece that fit between the carburetor and the intake manifold - was 2.5 inches high, half an inch taller than the legal maximum.
At most, the extra half-inch was worth two to three horsepower, hardly the difference between winning or losing. Worse yet, the infraction was avoidable. The 2.5-inch spacer was bolted to the manifold. Had the team welded half an inch onto the manifold and then bolted a 2-inch spacer on top of it, the car would have been totally legal with the carburetor at exactly the same height.
Martin was stripped of 46 Winston Cup points, his Roush Racing team fined $40,000 and crew chief Robin Pemberton suspended for 30 days by team owner Jack Roush, a suspension that was later lifted. "This particular situation could turn into losses of millions of dollars in sponsorships (and) prize money," Pemberton said at the time.
Little did he know just how right his forecasting would prove to be. Martin would eventually lose the 1990 Winston Cup championship to Dale Earnhardt by just 26 points. And while Earnhardt would go on to claim four titles this decade, Martin is still looking for his first. "People are going to say we are cheating to win, but it's not like that," Martin said. "I look at cheating as something that's done to get an unfair advantage. What was done on our car didn't give us an advantage on anybody. It wasn't like we had a big engine or illegal tires."
>> A crash in practice Saturday sent Chas leader Brad Keselowki to the pole position for Sunday's NASCAR's Sprint Cup season finale at Homestead Miami Speedway.
Pole leader Joey Logano was involved in a crash with Greg Biffle and Denny Hamlin. All 3 drivers went to backup cars for the Ford EcoBoost 400, meaning all 3 will move to the back of the field for the race start. <<
I've come to like this young guy a lot during this season. He's only 28. Hope others saw his couple of minutes on ESPN celebrating with his crew and fans. Smart kid and was having a ton of fun! ESPN must have liked it because they kept showing it over and over again!
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