brew_doo
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Yah - big penalties... guess that's how the Toyota beat the Fords eh snopro????? :d
Yah - big penalties... guess that's how the Toyota beat the Fords eh snopro????? :d
Toyota Racing Development today took full responsibility for Kenseth's illegal engine. They (TRD) are the sole supplier of motors to the Toyota teams in Sprint Cup competition. They build the motors in California and they are shipped to the teams for each event and the teams have zero input on what parts and pieces go into the engines. They appologize for the screwup so this brings up the question? Should teams pull apart race ready engines before they go in there cars to verify parts on there own? Should teams be penalized for someone elses mistake? This case is very similar to the Carl Long penalty a few years ago. Here is an independent that wants to compete but doesn't have the money to go big budget so he buys like most teams a crate engine from a engine builder, barely gets into the show, randomly gets checked in post race tech as Nascar is known to do and they find an over bore engine and fine him $250000. He can't afford the fine so he has left Sprint Cup, is banned by Nascar from Sprint Cup until he pays the fine and now works as a labourer for a Nationwide or Truck team I believe. He cannot according to Nascar even sweep floors as a paid employee for a Sprint Cup team. Trust me.....Nascar is far from perfect.
Didn't Gibbs used to build their own engines in house just a couple of years ago but stopped after multiple failures?
Yes they have struggled with the Toyota engines so they finally went for the Toyota in house engines.
Can I pick at the end of the race??????
OK there is a first. Under caution because the infield sprinklers came on at Richmond.