NASCAR Needs To Have Come Down Harder On Michael Waltrip Racing!

NASCAR Needs C. Down Harder On Michael Waltrip

In times that called for heavy-handedness, NASCAR didn’t drop the hammer since it should have on Michael Waltrip Racing.

When NASCAR uncharacteristically named a news conference Monday evening the thought was that something large was afoot.

Certainly, after reviewing the too much to handle evidence including audio and video documenting Michael Waltrip Racing conspiring to manipulate the regular season finale at Richmond, NASCAR would mete out justice. Effectively, think again.

While on some levels justice was served having Ryan Newman receiving the 2nd wild card slot which he otherwise would have guaranteed before MWR's shenanigans, the pervasive feeling is that NASCAR might have and should have performed more.

Although Martin Truex Jr .. losing 50 points and therefore his Chase eligibility will be significant, something is even now amiss. Clint Bowyer, the MWR driver whom initiated Saturday's proceedings that has a self-induced spin, astonishingly is probably the 12 drivers competing to the championship.

Even more confounding, Bowyer will become the Chase with simply no fewer points than he'd have had otherwise and is particularly seeded eighth overall, merely a 15 markers in financial debt of championship leader Matt Kenseth. Essentially, Bowyer received simply a slap on the wrist despite being one of the most culpable figure at MWR.

'There's not conclusive evidence which the 15 spin was purposive, ' NASCAR President Mike Helton said. 'There's many chatter, there's the video that shows an automobile spinning, but we didn't observe anything conclusive that that had been intentional. '

Apparently audio and video of MWR officials telling Bowyer that Newman was leading then the overt use associated with team orders faintly hidden as code telling Bowyer in order to spin his car is not enough.

The message sent is that anything below a signed confession falls less than being 'conclusive evidence' in the eyes of NASCAR; otherwise it's seen as circumstantial.

How else can anyone explain NASCAR's failure to enforce some type of substantial penalty on Bowyer? Whether it is taking away Chase points and even sitting Bowyer for some sort of race, there were no absence of options NASCAR could has utilized to send a resounding concept.

If there is good news to be had in Monday's ruling it really is that Newman can race to the title in what will be his final season having Stewart-Haas Racing. Instead to be a Chase bystander that has a lame duck team, he now could be a title contender.

A similar fortune, however, didn't look on Jeff Gordon, another party who had some sort of Chase spot ripped away because of the duplicity of MWR.

'We know from experience if you try to see the ripple effect of the incident, you can't cover all those bases, ' Helton said. 'You can't ever make a conclusion that is equitable and credible along the board. So we simply think about the incident and react for the incident. '

Without your maneuvering in final laps simply by MWR that included Bowyer's rotate and excessively slow clapboard times turned in simply by Brian Vickers, Gordon can have finished the regular period ranked 10th overall. As an alternative, he was on a bad side of the Chase cutoff - a location he still finds himself.

'Feel bad for Truex. He got within controversy now out as a result of it. But the guy who started all this not effected at many??? Don't agree! ' Gordon put up on Twitter.

The frustration expressed by Gordon seems to be common. For an offense that had been calculated the severity with the punishment doled out in order to MWR was absent.

This was the opportunity to set precedence and seal of approval out any vague view that rigging the Follow is acceptable. With the important points as they are, if there was ever a situation where NASCAR was required to assert itself and be forceful, maybe even in order to excess, this was the idea.

Yet for whatever reason officials selected a different tact. And for the second time within just a week it feels like MWR has gamed the system, justice become damned.

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