Robby Gordon’s winter of discontent continues.
NASCAR came down on Robby Gordon Motorsports
hard this week. Robby’s team installed and tried to practice with an
unapproved nose on his new Dodge at Daytona. Officials found it to not
be in compliance and once the penalties were handed down, Robby’s top
ten finish at the 500 won’t carry top ten points.
The, now standard, 100 team and driver points deduction and $100,000 fines were enacted. NASCAR’s unwavering penalty for CoT violations seems a bit harsh considering some of the other violations from last year that received this same penalty. I have been a big supporter of NASCAR consistency and the concept of a standard for penalty calculations. But; somehow, NASCAR has to find a way to differentiate penalties in regards to intent and severity.
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