CRAZY WEEK IN NASCAR

WHAT THE HELL IS UP WITH NASCAR????

    I am pretty sure by now you have all heard about the crazy ass rules changes/added a car to the chase/new spotter rules. I think a lot of teams will be totally confused about if they can help Thieu teammates or not? Team orders? lol that's laughable now because NASCAR quashed any such orders with one fail swoop. They made it abundantly clear... YOU HELP YOUR TEAMMATE IN ANY WAY AND WE ARE GOING TO LEVEL THE GIGANTIC HAMMER WE CONTROL!!!!!!! PERIOD! Oh and today during the drivers meeting, which I am sure will be packed with beat reporters, they will introduce yet another rule on race restarts.
    Ok so here we go, I will try and give my opinion on what I understand happened last weekend and all the fallout that has happened during the week. Bare with me because I am not even sure I get it completely because it was a penalty for something that's been going on since the first race team added a second car.
    Ok as you all know Michale Waltrip Racing was fined an ungodly amount of cash $300,000 to be exact, for 1 thing, for Brian Vickers being told to hit pit road so a teammate could make sure he was in the chase, the real benefit came to a driver from another team, Joey Logano, Who because of Brian and his move he gained the 1 point he needed to be ahead of Jeff Gordon to secure a wild card spot in the chase. Now the car that should of been hit the hardest, Clint Bowyer, for the bogus spin that brought out the caution that actually did change the look of the chase and the race, which Ryan Newman was running away with the lead with 10 laps to go. Because of the bogus pit and the radio communication between Brian Vickers and his spotter Ty Norris, and all that transpired after that,  NASCAR in its infinite wisdom decided to deduct 50 points from all 3 MWR teams...even though they said they couldn't prove that Clint spun himself, they decided to fine him and Martin Truex and Brian Vickers 50 points. Not sure why they fined Martin Truex because he was totally innocent in all that happened, but taking the points pre chase, knocked him out of the chase and dropped him back to 17th in points and because of the wild card spot vacant , Ryan Newman secured the open spot in the chase. Taking the 50 points from Clint Bowyer and Brian Vickers did absolutely nothing, Brian isn't competing for the chase and Clint had secured his spot in the chase a couple weeks before this. Now ask Dale Earnhardt Jr what he thinks of Clints spin and he will tell you it looked totally on purpose to him and he should know, He's done this himself and hey, they see wrecks every weekend and see how they happened and you could call them experts of some sort because of what they do. On top of that every driver that has seen the video and heard the in car audio has pretty much said or thought the same thing. Some have voiced their opinion on TV, radio, twitter, face book and some I am sure have just kept to themselves. Top that off with all the reporters that have given their opinions and poured out the facts in many an article this week, and the fact that NASCAR had a huge sweep of the entire MWR team. I think with the fines and points taken away that this was their way of saying "boys we know you pulled some shit here, and we cant totally prove it, but don't do this crap again"
    And the other day guess who also gets into the chase.....Jeff Gordon????? WTF? This decision to add the 13th car and driver to the chase makes NO SENSE AT ALL to anyone. It only goes to prove that NASCAR makes the rules and those rules can change at any time lending to the idea that NASCAR is getting to be more and more like the WWE. I personally am loosing all respect for Brian France and Mike Helton and the whole NASCAR front office. This week makes me wounder if Brian France isn't hitting the bottle again and ruling NASCAR through the thick glass at the bottom of the scotch bottle. This decision to add a 13th car is unprecedented and unwarranted and if they are going to allow Jeff Gordon into the chase just because he would of been there if the race would of ended like everyone thought it would, then shouldn't all 43 drivers be in the chase because, hey, if they would of had a different finish in all those 25 races before Richmond, they could of been in the chase too. At the very least, why not put Martin Truex back in because HE actually RACED his way into the chase by winning and finishing good all year long and he deserved to actually be in the chase and not kicked out because of something his 2 teammates did. This whole week has been just flat crazy with BS rules changes and hey fans, another rules change today and one we wont know about until after the drivers meeting when all the reporters start tweeting about what Helton is saying in the meeting. @Jeff_Gluck, @bobpockrass, @nateryan, @MartySmithESPN, @JennaFryer, @dusinlong and of course @ClaireBLang. Then and only then will we know the new restart rules. Because its all hush hush for some reason.

    Now my opinion on all of this is this:
1: NASCAR totally screwed the pooch this week by taking Martin Truex Jr out of the chase for something his teammates did.
2: NASCAR totally screwed the pooch making up new rules at the start of the chase
3: NASCAR totally screwed the pooch putting Jeff Gordon in the chase adding a 13th driver because with 10 laps to go he was in position to make the chase and a caution came out changing that
4: NASCAR screwed the pooch not penalizing Clint Bowyer for his spin that was ON purpose not matter what he says, that was as hokie a spin as I've ever seen
5: NASCAR screwed the pooch penalizing Martin Truex at all
6: finally one not of NASCAR's doing....MWR lost a ton of respect among fans, fellow racers, and teams in the garage and I think the media shit storm that came about during the media rush they had after Richmond proves that no matter what they do they will look bad this year and for many years to come.
7: Clint Bowyer is a putz and needs to just come forward and admit what we all know (dude take some advice from AJ Allmendinger and fess up, shit gets easier if you do.) If he should happen to get the championship this year its going to have a great big * mark on the win because it will be tainted (listen to the crowd when they introduce Clint today and every week of the chase...I'm predicting a shit ton of booing going on.)
8: MWR and Michael Waltrip are both a total joke in my book. He has had issues since he started running in the Cup Series, from jet fuel in the engine, to this crap that happened last weekend in Richmond, his team is the Joke of all the teams in the garage. He has to have lost a ton of respect as a team, the person, he obviously has no control over what his team does, could you imagine this sort of thing going on at Penske, or Joe Gibbs? Um I don't think so.

    After the race...probably not today by what @NASCAR_WXMAN said, the chance of getting this in is about 20%, but tomorrow I will give a run down of the race and maybe I will try and add my thoughts on this years silly season run down.



Until later.......