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What do you think?

Driver and team give 100% best effort to complete a race

 

Examples that are not acceptable

Offering a position for a favor or material benefit.

Offering a material benefit for track position

directing a driver to give up a position to the benefit of another driver

Intentionally causing a caution for benefit of another driver

Intentionally wrecking a competitor

Intentionally pitting/going to garage for the benefit of another competitor

 

NASACRs in the entertainment biz.

Don't they throw phantom cautions to make the show better?

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Competition yellows, love 'em or hate 'em, do not (not intentionally anyway) help or hurt a particular driver in a pre-planned, contrived way.  Yes, it helps the show, but helping a particular driver/team is not its purpose.  Each team has, theoretically, an equal chance to gain or lose positions due to a comp yellow.

 

Honestly, I thought the rule change was necessary.  What Bowyer did was inexcusable.  What the Captain did, on the other hand, was "The Unfair Advantage."  Of course, the Captain has done other things over the years that have shown us why he is the Captain.  The stories about the 4 vs 5 lug wheels and the elevated gas cans from Mark Donohue's days are epic.

 

NASCAR put Gordon in the Chase to right a perceived wrong.  He got jacked through gamesmanship that was really unfair.  That was more of judgment call.  If I had to bet, I think NASCAR felt that someone messed with their product, they felt offended, and felt that they had to take action.  I think that the Penske situation would have been a non-issue had we not had the Bowyer fiasco to kick things off.  And they may have let Gordon stay out of the Chase, but the way it came together, I think they made the right call.






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