senor honda

Dumping weight from the car is an old trick.
Was it intentional?
Rules say it must be secured.......
You put up a thou$and for entry fee and are you willing to take a chance?

Then if you drop out of the race to save pit stop expenses, it looks suspicious.
So you stay in for appearances..........have to go the distance......at about $1,000 per pit stop...
So what do you do?
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You lose 8 LAPS (have to replace it, or drop out) and it will be almost impossible to make that up.
THEN NASCAR penalizes you with crew suspensions.........for FOUR races.....

Next time are you saying "It wasn't worth doing that....not doing that again......
and that will stop some people....if it was done intentionally)
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• Hamlin's crew penalized over Charlotte safety infraction

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emailBy Kelly Crandall | 7 hours ago

NASCAR issued a safety penalty to Joe Gibbs Racing’s No. 11 team on Monday afternoon, with three key members each receiving suspensions.

Crew chief Chris Gabehart, car chief Brandon Griffeth and engineer Scott Simmons have been suspended for the next four NASCAR Cup Series races. The penalty is a result of two pieces of ballast that dropped out of Denny Hamlin’s Toyota during the pace laps of the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Gabehart, Griffeth, and Simmons will miss the second race at Charlotte this week, and then Bristol, Atlanta, and Martinsville.

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“That’s a very, very severe safety thing,” said Scott Miller, NASCAR senior vice president of competition, on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. “Those chunks of ballast are huge. We have actually seen those hit race cars. Fortunately, we haven’t had any injuries from it. It pretty much destroys a race car. If the wrong thing happens, it wouldn’t be good. That’s why those penalties are big.”

Section 12.5.2.7.4.d of the NASCAR rule book specifically addresses ballast, which is used for cars to meet weight requirements. The four-race suspension for the crew chief, car chief, and engineer in the event of the loss of ballast from a vehicle is laid out in that rule.

Hamlin missed the start of the Coca-Cola 600 because the team was required to repair the car before taking the green flag. When Hamlin did join the race, he was eight laps down to the leaders and finished 29th.

JGR does not intend to appeal the ruling. During the suspension period, Sam McAulay will substitute as crew chief, Eric Phillips will serve as car chief and Scott Eldridge will take the engineering spot.

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