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Sally B asked in SportsAuto RacingNASCAR · 1 decade ago

Holy cow! Did you see the penalties to JGR's Nationwide program?

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Update:

I would think JGR has probably or will be dishing out termination notices. I don't believe Coach knew what was going on and I'm almost as sure J.D. didn't either. Personally I'm glad NASCAR ruled as they did but I was afraid they wouldn't. Nice to be proven wrong on this one.

Update 2:

Stinky: I don't think that Gibbs will keep them around. Coach is very much a man of his word and he is highly respected. If he cuts them loose I think those particular employees will be marked as tainted and not picked up by another team. Besides, they are indefinitely suspended so what good would they be? AND, I'm sure their contracts with Gibbs have strong non-compete clauses that firing would not necessarily void.

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  • Steffy
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago
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    Wow they did hit them hard, indefinite suspension of seven Joe Gibbs Racing team members. Ouch. I know every one of the teams push the envelops all they can but to get caught and have NASCAR punish them this serverly means it wasn't merely pushing the envelope it was flat out cheating.

    I actually feel bad for JD. I don't think he had any idea of what what going down. Sure does give them a bad name. Your right Sally I could see some guys loosing thier jobs over this one.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    NASCAR has yet to get "serious" about infractions. This was blatant.

    I would really like to see NASCAR institute a "death penalty", much like the NCAA can hand out and did in the case of Southern Methodist.

    Here's the deal. I would make JGR park ONE of the Nationwide cars for the remainder of the season. That should make a sponsor happy, huh? And, dock the remaining car 500 points. Also make the remaining car start shotgun on the field for the remainder of the races and be last to pick a pit stall.

    THAT should get somebody's attention. Other than that, NASCAR isn't hurting anybody with 50k penalties, etc... Get serious or shut up NASCAR...

  • 1 decade ago

    A lot handed down but I expected more. The owner of the team (Joe Gibbs) should have been slapped with a heavy fine. The teams lost points and a couple $50,000 fines to the crew cheifs. I figured JG wouldve gotten a little more.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    What I do not get is they were trying to influence a dyno test and got smacked this hard yet when a car fails post race inspection the teams are not beat this far into submission. I suppose though that the precedent has been set. The next time Hendricks plays in the "gray area" there will be indefinite suspensions.

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  • 1 decade ago

    It is the Busch league Like it really matters. Nascar would never do this to Jimmy Johnson or Jeff Gordon's teams.

  • 1 decade ago

    Those are pretty crazy penalties, though I knew that it was going to be severe. I never expected indefinite suspensions on anyone. Imagine how much worse it could get when Gibbs takes his own action against those who are guilty.

  • 1 decade ago

    I think it's wrong they suspended the crew chiefs INDEFINITELY. Maybe they should've suspended them for the rest of the season. What good are they to JGR now, can they use them as engineers, Cup crew chiefs?

  • Gigi
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    I think the penalties were fair. Cheating is cheating and penalties should be given.

  • 1 decade ago

    It's ridiculous. And some people seem to think Toyota has NASCAR in their back pocket. Looks to me like they are trying to put Toyota at any disadvantage possible. It's ashame if you have to hide the horsepower that you gained back just because NASCAR would penalize you again.

  • Crazy penalties? I thought the punishment actually fit the crime this time around... How can anyone say that JGR was not blatantly trying to put something by the NASCAR officials? I say Kudos to NASCAR for putting the "Smacketh Down" on the JGR Nationwide program.

    Source(s): Indefinite Suspensions are just what they asked for.
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