Originally Posted by 24n48fan
NASCAR is a business, I get that. However, NASCAR knows that unless you're a Hendrick or Childress or a Gibbs that no one can afford to pay a $200,000 fine. NASCAR is just being STUPID! Carl Long didn't diliberately try to gain an unfair advantage. NASCAR just wanted to throw its weight around and they did a fantastic job of doing just that.
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isn't being stupid! NASCAR is being fair! How can one team or person expect special treatment? For the sake of argument, lets say that a Hendrick, Childress or Gibbs team had the same issue ... should they pay a larger fine than a less financially endowed stable BECAUSE they can?
I have to shop at T. J. Maxx because I can't afford Saks Fifth Avenue. Is that unfair?
And deliberate or not, rules is rules. Whether or not the extra sizing was accidental on the part of the engine builder or whether or not a little tweaking was done back at the shop... SOMEBODY fell down on the job. And as for it being only .17; that was over and above the allowance already built into the rule (kind of like pit road speed).
If the fine of $200,000 was for a crooked hood, I'd probably agree with you but the Sacred Triad of engine, tires, fuel is nothing to take chances with.