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Mess with a sealed engine? Be ready for 100-point penalty and more
By SceneDaily Staff
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – NASCAR considers tampering with the engine seals a major offense and worthy of a penalty of “a minimum of 100 championship driver and truck owner points,” according to a bulletin available in the Camping World Truck Series garage today.
NASCAR added wording to its harshest penalty provision to include any alteration, modification or repair of any part that has been “sealed” by NASCAR in addition to the existing wording about altering or changing anything previously certified.
NASCAR also added that it could confiscate race equipment as a penalty for messing with a sealed engine. Other potential penalties would be fines, disqualification, probation and suspension.
NASCAR is implementing an engine rule for the Truck and Nationwide series in hopes of limiting costs. Not including Daytona and Talladega, teams will not be allowed to use new engines in four consecutive events. Once a team uses an old engine in an event, it can use a new one for each of the next three events it enters.
NASCAR will use a seal to prevent any refurbishing of the engine between events, although teams will be allowed to remove the oil pan and, theoretically, change some bearings.
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OLD_GUY said:
Feb 10, 2009 at 11:16 PMAnybody actually see the full text of the rule? Is there a string around an eraser attached to the bulletin? At some point in the season some team will have found a way to subvert the intent of this rule and NASCAR will have to use the aforementioned eraser to "clarify" the rule. In addition, the "saved" money will be spent on some other aspect of the engine or vehicle. By the way, this will improve the racing for you fans...
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» Confirm Abuse ReportJerry Grant said:
Feb 10, 2009 at 11:52 PMHere we go again, same old thing again.
Report as AbuseAnother rule they won't enforce, unless the a team makes them mad of course.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportWerner Boehmert said:
Feb 11, 2009 at 5:25 PMwhy bother penalizing them?...i say put it on the truck and don't come back till next year...ya get the message now?...
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» Confirm Abuse ReportBernadette Motherway said:
Feb 11, 2009 at 9:33 PMNASCAR is going to kill the Truck series.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportRonald Schwalbe said:
Feb 11, 2009 at 10:36 PMWant to REALLY save the teams money ?? QUIT MAKING NEW RULES !!!!
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» Confirm Abuse ReportEdd said:
Feb 11, 2009 at 11:10 PMIt all depends on who gets busted and if they appeal. But then again, it depends on who thinks they can win an appeal if they get busted. Rules are going around in circles faster than the cars are allowed. Someone needs to send NASCAR a marker that can't get erased, or at least tell them NASCAR fans aren't as stupid as they want us to be.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportJames (GUFF) Seiger said:
Feb 14, 2009 at 7:33 AMSaving money all NASCAR did was to cause team to waste more money when the cars get wadded up in accidents because of no practice and track time!! Idoits!!!!! Who are they trying to fool here?
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