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National Stock Car Commission upholds Haas CNC penalties
By Rea White - Associate Editor
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
The NASCAR Sprint Cup cars of Haas CNC Racing are carried out of the garage at Lowe's Motor Speedway.
David Griffin
NASCAR Scene
The National Stock Car Racing Commission has upheld the penalties assessed the No. 66 and No. 70 Haas CNC Racing Sprint Cup Series teams.
NASCAR penalized the teams for improper wing-mounting locations following an inspection during the Coca-Cola 600 race weekend at Lowe's Motor Speedway. Each team was penalized 150 owner points, Scott Riggs and Johnny Sauter were each penalized 150 driver points, and the crew chiefs for each team (Bootie Barker and Dave Skog) were fined $100,000 and suspended for six races. The car chiefs were also suspended for six races.
Haas officials did not contest the rules violation but argued that the penalties were too severe for the infractions. They also argued that the infractions did not involve illegal parts on the car and that the resulting higher wing location was a disadvantage.
"The Commission found that the infractions resulted from what appeared to be a deliberate attempt to circumvent the inspection process," a news release said. "Accordingly, the penalties that were issued are warranted."
The penalties were unanimously upheld in separate hearings Monday. The commission group hearing the appeal for the No. 66 Riggs team was Leo Mehl, Kevin Whitaker and Chairman George Silbermann. The No. 70 team's appeal was heard, and the penalty was unanimously upheld, by Dale Pinilis, Cathy Rice and Silbermann.
Mentioned Drivers: Scott Riggs
2009 Sprint Cup Race for the Chase Standings
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| 2 | Mark Martin | -108 |
| 3 | Jeff Gordon | -169 |
| 4 | Kurt Busch | -211 |
| 5 | Tony Stewart | -285 |
| 6 | Juan Pablo Montoya | -289 |
| 7 | Greg Biffle | -321 |
| 8 | Denny Hamlin | -352 |
| 9 | Ryan Newman | -411 |
| 10 | Kasey Kahne | -476 |
| 11 | Carl Edwards | -520 |
| 12 | Brian Vickers | -666 |
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1 response to "National Stock Car Commission upholds Haas CNC penalties".
FRANK LAVACCA said:
Jun 10, 2008 at 7:32 PMway to extreme.this seems to be the way nascar is going.funny that there is no investagation of the jg cars that seem to be now super cars since they went jap.who is paying who.k.busch is a menace on the track and there are no problems there.who is nascar kidding.but back to the penalties.150 points is way to much.the money is bad enough and 6 races,why don't they throw them out completely.its becoming the nanny sport with this piece of juck of a car.
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