Sports news is abuzz with Wednesday’s announcement that the Kansas race-winning car of Matt Kenseth failed a secondary post-race inspection at NASCAR’s Research and Development Centre. NASCAR officials haven’t wasted any time discussing penalties to levy against Kenseth and his team, and have already penalized Kenseth by deducting 50 points from his overall score.
Crew chief, Jason Ratcliff, has been fined $200 000 and suspended for six races. Other penalties were also levied, but these haven’t been made disclosed yet.
Testing on Kenseth’s car wasn’t targeted, as it is standard practice for NASCAR to take the wining car and another random car for inspection at its Research and Development Centre. In addition to this, the engine of the 2nd place car is also taken in for analysis, thus it isn’t only the first place driver and vehicle which is placed under scrutiny. In the instance it was Kahne who came in second.
The engine, which was supplied by Toyota Racing Development Costa Mesa, California, failed because one of the eight connecting rods didn’t meet the minimum weight requirement. Could this simply be a quality control issue rather than an intentional contravention of rules? It certainly wouldn’t be the first time this sort of cheating has occurred, however that’s a call for the relevant authorities to make.
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In 2009, Carl Long, was found to have an illegal engine at the All-Star Race which resulted in him being suspended from 12 races, being docked by a 200 points and fined a startling $200 000. Upon appeal his suspension was reduced to 8 races, however because Long was unable to pay the fine he is barred from working in the Sprint Cup garage until his debt with NASCAR has been settled.
NASCAR is clearly trying to send out a message that rules are to be followed to the letter and even minor infractions will not be tolerated.