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When he removed Tony Eury Jr. as Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s crew chief Thursday, Rick Hendrick did what he felt needed to be done. As team owner of Hendrick Motorsports, the buck stops with him.
Well, not exactly in this instance. Rather, the buck – ultimately – will wind up stopping with Dale Jr.
While the Commission is known for typically siding with NASCAR in appeal hearings, I’d like to see the commissioners who hear Long’s case – and ultimately decide his long-term fate in racing, if he is to ever have one again – show some guts and overturn the penalties against Long, his wife and Swing.
Carl Long was penalized 200 driver points, his wife and team owner Danielle Long was penalized 200 owner points and crew chief Charles Swing took the biggest hit, being fined $200,000 – all for having an oversized engine in Long’s Sprint Cup car during last weekend’s all-star race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway.
As we’ve seen over and over throughout his career, when Stewart gets on a roll, he keeps rolling along.
Odds and ends, bits and pieces, this and that as we put a wrap on a long, difficult week:
Jenson Button won the Spanish Grand Prix, which was his fourth Formula 1 victory in five starts, and by virtue of dominating that series, he remains firmly in control of the “highly-scientific” Unified Power Rankings. Meanwhile, the NASCAR boys continue to run strong and take up most of the remaining top-10 spots.
So, who is going to be the next driver victimized by the new policy?
Now, in a VERY uncharacteristic move, NASCAR is “looking into” why its TV ratings have fallen so much so far, and threaten to continue falling. Could NASCAR actually be starting to panic, that much of its cash cow gravy train is beginning to dry up?
Talk about the potential for embarrassment in Daytona Beach.
Jeremy Mayfield’s indefinite suspension over the weekend for allegedly having illegal substances in his system was a huge shock. Mayfield becomes the first driver in Sprint Cup history to be suspended for substance use and/or abuse.
The race became a Labor Day weekend tradition, both because of the holiday weekend, but also because it gave such a fitting description of how hard NASCAR drivers labored and worked perhaps harder there than at any other track just to finish the race.
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