Waltrip spiking gas....the worst possible offense?

Question

the question speaks for itself. on a scale of 1 to 10, compare jeff gordons offense to michael waltrip. 1 bad, 10 really freakin bad.

Answer 1

Gordon's is definitely a 1, that was just a part failure, an accident, but NASCAR still had to punish him to follow the rules it laid out.
Waltrip's is a 10 at the moment, but I'm not so sure that it really is the worst, who knows what they can really think of.

Answer 2

ok jeffs incident was a common mistake that any team could have made it was a misaligined shock for cryin out loud havent any of you made a mistake but on the other hand mikes was more severe because there was a jet additive inside the intake it was put there after the first intial inspection of the car mike did not deserve that steep penalty but the crew cheif did any crew cheif that has been around nascar any amount of time knows better than to to put anything in the gas or put any additive in the engine adn i comend nascar for there effort to make the sport safer and another thing if (NASCAR OFFICIALS) are reading this the rules about the shocks r stupid yall no a shock or spring can give way in a race and just because any givin team is 1/4 of an inch shorter after the race does not deem a stupid 5000 fine

Answer 3

as a nascar racer and cheater and objective viewer no single offense is any worse than any other offense,we cheat to go faster, who says that one way of cheating is any is more or less wrong than another way,it's all cheating,on a scale of 1- 10 they're all 10s,gordons little trick might have been good for 3/10ths of a second and waltrips only 1/10th,cheating is cheating,nascar penalized waltrip harder because in their view he broke some unwritten rule saying we don't mess with fuel,having worked with over 10 nascar teams i can tell you every team i was on cheated in one way or another even the champions,in my opinion nascar has a lot of work to do to level the playing field,how can a team like petty with 5 million dollars a year have a fair chance against roush with 100 million a year,they can't period,nascar could care less about a level playing field,baseball has profit sharing and salary caps and nascar has to figure out how to take the cubic dollar out of the race,they should build all the cars and motors and lease them back to every team so the teams with one car have the same chance of winning as the guys like roush with 15 cars and trucks,as far as i can see a team that has 95 million dollar advantage is the same as the the guy with the rocket fuel in his intake

Answer 4

There is no way Michael Waltrip knew what was going on. He is one of the few NASCAR drivers with class and respectibility unlike some of the other "top" drivers who race dirty. I have always been a dedicated fan of Michael's but I think it is time to put the gloves and helmet away and find a job in racing that could use his experience and class.

Answer 5

Gordon 1, Mikey 10. Gordon's infraction by no way enhanced the performance of the car. NASCAR officials said if anything it was a detriment to the cars performance but was still a rule infraction. NASCAR has never taken a win from anyone but do penalize by fines, point deductions and disallowing qualifying times. What Mikey did will weigh heavily on his soul because he bared his *SS to the world. It was only a matter of time.

Answer 6

1 for Jeff a 3 for Mikey. I compared the two so low for one reason, the history of NASCAR. The MEDIA did not start following NASCAR so close until 2001. Just think of the things NASCAR drivers and crew chiefs did and no one paid any attention before 2001, where was the media then? Oh yeah, Earnhardt was still alive.

Answer 7

I have a sneeking suspician that what happened to waltrips car had everything to do with it being a toyota and less to do with waltrip. I believe somebody had marked this car for sabotage and was successful in there attempt. I believe that everything starts from the top"toyota". I think a criminal investigation should be pursued and formal charges made. I believe Mikey should have his day in federal court to prove his innocence and expose the corparate criminals behind this frame-up.

Answer 8

Waltrip deserves 10 of course!
Jeffy well he should have gotten more than a slap on the wrist. Nascar found the same thing on Rusty Wallace (when he raced), he lost big time so why should they treat little Jeffy any different???

Answer 9

Well, nobody's gonna fess up to doing it publicly. Within the team though, they know how it happened. We'll never know if it was the actions of just one of the team members, or if the whole team was in on it and knew about it. Playing with the fuel has always been a big no-no in racing. So I give it a 9 or 10.

Answer 10

I think it is ridiculous that Jeff is caught and get a slap on the wrist and Kasey's crew chief is told to fix the problem and he does and gets a horrendous blemish on his record. I think Chad is the only Hendrick who got such a bad rep last year. I think that Jeff should have lost points. What Michael did was horrible and was deserving of what was dealt to them. Mickey will even tell you that.