Do you think that it is bull crap that jeff gordan got cought cheating at daytona and did not get fined?

Answer 1

No, because there is a difference between intention and accidental.

And altering aerodynamics by drilling holes is no accident. Misaligning nuts and bolts is.

And no, I'm not a Gordon fan. I'm just calling it how I see it.

Answer 2

No.
1. He didnt cheat, it was part failure, NASCAR reported that was what caused the car being too low.
2. It was not performance enhancing, it actually hindered making his car much too low to the ground and causing handling issues.

I can see how one might see it being unfair that one gets penalized and the other not. This is just speculation on my part now. I think NASCAR needs to have a much more regulated rule book and implementation of penalties. It seems to me that they make decisions on penalties, cautions, and other scenarios completly on an individual basis. Ther needs to be more structure, everything needs to be the same. Set penalties, set cautions, no more arbitrary decisions. The end of the Daytona 500 IMO was done for ratings. If that was not the last lap the caution would have been thrown long before Martin and Harvick got to the Start/Finish line. What does that mean, that there is a completely different rule book for the last lap. That may bode well on ESPN and Sportscenter, and the casual fan that watches the last lap, but NASCAR needs to be aware of the general disgruntlement of their loyal fanbase. A change needs to be made, and for the integrity of the sport, not for the television ratings.

Answer 3

Its Jeff Gordon.. Anyhow I think that they shouldn't have did anything, but thats a totally different opinion. Nascar made a good decision by just making him start at the back of the pack. All the people who are responding are more then likely Gordon haters and bashers but you have to respect him and his driving and him being one of the best NASCAR drivers around. I think that instead of making him start at the back for a part failure come on if a tire blows are you really going to penalize a person for that, I dont think so, a screw may not have been tight enough, a part NASCAR gave them could have been faulty the list goes on and on. I don't think he really should have gotten any penalaties but it was Nascar's decision. I think that they should of not let him start 4, instead they should of made him start where he qualified with his original car as that had no violatinos. That's just me but I think it was an okay decision.

Answer 4

NASCAR said they didn't think he was cheating. I question it though. His team should have known better and I think they did something that they figured they could pull off. I mean come on the car was lower by what almost 3/4 of an inch or something like that. They say it was the part was defective or whatever. Maybe the team INTENTIONALLY did that figuring they could either get away with it or sneak it past NASCAR. If that is what happened then they did sneak it past NASCAR. I have a hard time believing his team doesn't know enough that there isn't a risk they tried that.

Oh and to PAPABILL IT WAS performance enchancing. When the car is lowered it can run faster. Was watching them talk on ESPN about this and what it did for him. As I said they CLAIMED it wasn't intentional BUT I question that.

Answer 5

Jeff Gordon Is the like the golden boy of Nascar so he could
run over someone and not get fined it is ridiculous

Answer 6

If it would have been anybody else the would have gotten a fine and lost points even if it was an accident. He's the golden boy just like Johnson they can do no wrong. Look what happened when he pushed Matt last year. Gordon will get his someday.

Answer 7

Yea I do. If it was somebody else, they would have been fined, points taken away, and sent to the back of the field. Somebody on that team has a good set of knee-pads or something. Maybe his owner is paying maoney on the side so the officals will look the other way.

Answer 8

Cheating? NO.
I dislike Gordon, but I'm smart enough to know that NASCAR said that it was a PART FAILURE. The inspectors reached that conclusion, and they did find a part that failed.
Sending him to the back was already enough, they had to punish him in some way to be consistent with the rules. But they knew that this was unintentional. Now how would you like to be slapped with a fine just because a part failed and made the car too low?
And also, Waltrip's offense is a lot worse than Gordon's so don't even bother comparing them.

Answer 9

YES!!!! I think it really shows how nascar plays favorites between drivers and teams. Why not suspend his crew chief and dock him 50pts just like the others? For crying out loud he went through the Gatorade duals and won!!!! Then just gets a little swat on his pansy wrists and says oh I don't think it was on purpose so that's OK you just need to start at the 41st position in a restrictor plate race and that is all we will do. But with the 17 and 9 teams we will penalize the SH IT out of you for trying some fishy shi t while running 2 laps of qualifying which really did not amount to a hill of beans anyways. They should have made the 9 and 17 teams start at the rear of the field also and that was ALL not dock the hell out of them then suspend the crew chief for 4 frickin races. The fact that GORDON did not get docked 50Pt's is total BS!!!! Didn't he finish 10Th at Daytona? WOW what a penalty! Screw the 24 team!!!

Answer 10

Jeff Gordon is a winner, and people like you don't like it when people like my best friend Jeff Gordon and I do anything that you can't do.

I bet you like some sissy racecar driver instead which is why you have to dump all over my Best Friend Jeff Gordon.

Boo.