It is clear that NASCAR isn't getting the attention of teams like Joe Gibbs Racing who like to twist the rules quite often in the sport with the penalties that they are handing out right now. So in my opinion it is time to do something even harsher to the teams that break the rules.
I was a crew member in both local and NASCAR competition so I know that teams like to bend the rule book to get every little inch that they can. However, when I look at the result of this past weekend when Denny Hamlin's two teams were penalized for the same exact issue in the two NASCAR divisions it is time to go with a heftier penalty than encumbering the finish, suspending the crew chief and taking points away as NASCAR did.
NASCAR needs to think now about suspending the entire team for a race or two. That meaning if you have a penalty such as this you can't race for an entire weekend, driver, crew chief, everyone, the entire team is suspended along with the car and the win needs to be completely stripped away and given to the next car in line that passes inspection. Also fans need to understand that NASCAR can't do a complete inspection at the race track and find what they did on Hamlin's car at the track, a lot of it has to be done in the R&D Center at North Carolina.
It is time that if you illegal to disqualify people and take the wins away and give the victory to the guy that truly deserved to win the win race. I think there doesn't need to be any of this stuff about "encumbering a finish," just truly take the finish away and send the guy back to dead last in the running order of the race like many of short track divisions would do in an event. Also I think it is time NASCAR takes the top-5 cars from each divisions to R&D each week because who is to say one of the top-5 cars isn't illegal either? It is just time for much harsher penalties.
I believe this past weekend Hamlin tried to hide something when he backed the car into the wall and did his burnout. So it is time NASCAR looks at a different penalty system.
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I agree entirely but Nascar's argument is that fans need to know who won the race before they leave the track but Kyle Petty on Nascar said this can be done with no problem in 15 min. before Victory Lane.
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