Picture this scenario. The first baby of NASCAR, child of Jeff Gordon and Ingrid Vandebosch, arrives the Friday before the Toyota/Save Mart 350 instead of Tuesday. Mark Martin jumps in to the Dupont #24, as previously agreed, subbing for the new dad. Said #24 undergoes initial technical inspection and is found illegal by the CoT police.
According to the hosts of Speed's Inside Nextel Cup, Martin would have borne the penalties that now seem likely to be levied upon the baby daddy, Jeff Gordon. According to Greg Biffle, Ken Shrader and Michael Waltrip, that's the way things would have come down.
This all came about due to a question posed by a caller to the show. I wish that I had the caller's name. It was a great question and the possibilities it posed are fairly fascinating.
What do you suppose the Gordon/Hendrick haters would have done if Jeff had dodged any and all penalties that issue from this latest attempt by an HMS team to innovate?
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interesting thought..the Mark martin fans would have been up in arms that's for sure...of course all this would have been avoided if they had just told them to load up and go home....
Posted by: robert bourne | June 26, 2007 at 10:57 PM
there's not much that can get my dander up in NASCAR politics... but this senario would have ripped me
Posted by: michael | June 27, 2007 at 06:13 AM
Would have been wild, huh? Makes me want to look for other goofiness in the current rules.
Posted by: charlie | June 28, 2007 at 12:05 AM