Heading to the driver's meeting at New Hampshire International Speedway on Sunday morning, Kyle Busch's golf cart came to a screeching halt.He stopped when he saw PASS North Series driver Mike Rowe walking through the infield, yelling over to tell Rowe he had something in his motorhome for the Turner, Maine driver. It was the winner's trophy from All-Star Speedway.
Commend PASS North Series officials for making the right call -- and doing so swiftly on Sunday.
After celebrating a win by Busch in the All-Star 200, one that was roundly criticized and contested by the series' regulars, PASS announced that Busch had been penalized 2 laps for an inappropriate tire change during the race.
Rowe was given the win over son Ben Rowe, and Travis Benjamin finished 3rd. Busch was relegated to a 16th-place finish.
It was the only decision PASS could afford to make, not being held captive by the name and presence of a Nextel Cup driver. That's the way it has to be -- for the series' teams and its loyal fan base.
3 comments:
If this decision was so "swift", why did officials wait until after the race and post race celebration was over to penalized the 51 car? It shouldn't take a couple hours to figure out a tire change was illegal, and considering the team committing the violation is owned by a PASS official, they should have known what the rules were.
This is something (penalty) that should have happened when the infraction occurred, not when officials realized they had a potential uprising on there hands. Do officials usually wait a few hours to penalized a driver for dumping someone else early in a feature? No they usually don’t.
I don’t see anything “swift” about the way PASS officials handled this situation, and as a result they lost some credibility with fans & racers as a result.
I think the problem may have been a shortage of officials, and the setup of pit road.
For one, PASS had officials at the race in Groveton, NH, so there may not have been anybody watching pit road. Second, the way pit road was set up down there makes it difficult for the officials to watch cars as they pit anyway.
A bunch of us watched Kyle pit from the stands and the banking. Maybe its just a possibility the officials were busy doing the realignment didn't think that that one particular team, or any team would dare to make a move like that after the rules had been gone over at the drivers meeting.
Just a thought.
I've got a post at The Black Flag on this where I quote and link the story here.
http://ccrnascar.blogspot.com/2007/07/is-kyle-busch-nascars-worst-cheater.html
If this is true, Busch has somehow managed to top himself in terms of stupidity (an amazing feat). Someone who would do this has zero integrity and should not be part of the sport.
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