If anyone saw the race last monday I am sure you saw were after Tony Stewart and Kurt Busch had their wreck were Kurt Busch slammed his car into Stewarts on pit road almost hitting a crewmember. Today the penalty was decided 100 points from both Busch and Rodger Penske and a 100K fine. Plus probation til the end of the year big whopiee. This shows how inconsistant NASCAR is remember what they did to Spencer when he hit Busch after a race they parked him for a race.

[Jackrabbit379]

I didnt get to see the 2nd half of the race, but I heard about it on Sirius. I heard from Tony's side of the story, and of course, he is always crying about something, but I was finally able to hear the whole thing.

[yoopr]

He got off pretty light
What happened on the Track with Stewart was just racing incident

[thebaldeagle655]

Don't know about light, and they are not consistent, this time they actually were stiffer than history if you just think about it! Any time in the past that they have parked a driver during a race they have not added any further penalties. They parked a car that had very little damage and probably would have placed at least in the top 20, if not the top 5 had he completed the race, then they took another 100 points. This adds up to about 150 points lost in Dover and another 100 in penalty. 250 points is a pretty stiff penalty, and basically the equivalent of being suspended for a race.

Dropped him from 11th place in the standings to 17th, pretty harsh!!! Probably eliminates him from chase hopes!!

[Jackrabbit379]

Yeah, that was pretty steep for him. It will be interesting to see how he does for the chase. Like you said, he may be out of it, now.

[Mr. Ford95]

Big difference between Spencer hitting Busch after the Michigan race and what Busch did to Stewart Monday.

Spencer physically punched Busch in the face while Busch was still sitting in the car without his helmet on. Busch drove his car into Stewart's car, yes crew members were put in immiment danger but it is no different than what Stewart did to Gordon at Bristol and what Robby Gordon did to Jr. also at Bristol a year later, spun them out on pit road after the race was over. Same with Carl Edwards last year at Pocono when he spun Stewart as Stewart was entering pit road under caution.

I agree a suspension is warranted for this stuff. It is the only way to keep it from happening again and endangering innocent pit road workers but I doubt it will come to that, NASCAR has kept the same penalty for this stuff everytime it has happened.

[yoopr]

I agree a suspension is warranted for this stuff. It is the only way to keep it from happening again and endangering innocent pit road workers

You just contradicted yourself
I could care less about him and Stewart getting tangled up-It was his agression with His car on Pit Road

[Mr. Ford95]

Where did I do that yoop?? I agree that a suspension is needed. Iron was trying to liken it to an incident where a driver physically assaulted another driver. I was only pointing out that others have done the same crap and gotten off easy. No contradiction here!! 8)

[yoopr]

you didn't contradict-I misread :P

[Mr. Ford95]

It's all good yoop, thought maybe I had wrote something wrong.