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Sunday, October 12, 2008

Tony Hosed one more time by HESCAR

HESCAR is really starting to get ridiculous with the blatant penalties against Gibbs and Toyota. This week with less than a quarter of the race to go and the teams going through their final green flag stops, HESCAR penalizes Tony Stewart and Kyle Busch for 'too fast on pit road'. Tony was 'clocked' at 50.83 miles per hour 0.83 miles an hour over the speeding limit buffer. They never said what Kyle was clocked at, but when the race leader is coming in and there is less than 25% of the race left don't come in and impose penalties that are dependant on the equipment given an error less than 1.6%. Human error can account for 5% alone in most instances, but by-golly not in HESCAR. Not with old Jethro there with his stop watch and laptop. No sir. I can't recall this season when Jimmy, Jeff, Carl, or Dale have gotten a speeding penalty, but I know of at least 2 instances where Tony has gotten 'caught' late in the race that could have potentially cost him a win. If Burton or somebody doesn't win this thing I doubt I even care next year.

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