NASCAR officials confiscate Truex's car

By Kenny Bruce - Assistant Managing Editor
Thursday, July 03, 2008
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Martin Truex Jr. (left) talks to crew chief Kevin Manion as the team prepares the backup car after finding out his primary car was confiscated by NASCAR before the first practice session.

Mark Sluder
NASCAR Scene

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.NASCAR officials confiscated the No. 1 Chevrolet fielded by Dale Earnhardt Inc. and driven by Martin Truex Jr. when the Sprint Cup Series entry failed to pass inspection Thursday.

“It has something to do with the roofline, the width of the car,” John Story, vice president of motorsports for DEI, said Thursday at Daytona International Speedway.

“Certainly it was nothing intentional. It fit our templates at the shop; it just didn’t fit NASCAR’s templates here, apparently.”

Story said the car was newly built for Daytona and thus had not been through a prior inspection at the track.

“No, it’s brand new,” he said. “The templates the teams have in the shop and the templates that are here [at the track], they have a slight, slight difference.”

As a result, the team pulled its backup car out and was preparing it for inspection prior to the start of the day’s first Cup practice session, which was scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. EDT. Story said Truex likely would not take part in the practice session.

“The backup car has been run before, so there won’t be any issues with it,” he said. “But we won’t run the first practice session because they’re changing the engine in the backup car. It’s not the one we’re happiest with, so we’ll forgo the first practice.

Mentioned Drivers: Martin Truex Jr.

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    FRANK LAVACCA said:
    Jul 3, 2008 at 8:36 PM

    i think nascar is going a bit far taking his car.if i remember last year,gordon and johnson cars didn't fit the template and they were allowed to work on the cars to fit.so where is the justice.nascar should provide all the teams with their templates and this problem will go away.

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    Adrion Coleman said:
    Jul 3, 2008 at 9:20 PM

    Nascar gave the 1 team several chances to pass inspection and they could not get the car to pass. The 48 and 24 were able to get their cars fixed. This has been Nascar's practice for years.

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