Hey, Anyone Seen The ATM?
Robbie Gordon & Kasey Kahne are truly NASCAR wrecks!
After wadding up their cars and then, trying to do the same to the Nextel Cup cars of Michael Waltrip and Kyle Busch. Instead of going to theinfield care center for the mandatory check-up, following a Nascar wreck. They both needed to find the closest ATM, so they could have cash-in-hand, when they went into the principle's office (NASCAR trailer) to get detention for their actions on and off the track!
I couldn't agree more with Greg Engle from "Cup Scene Daily"....
Greg,you took the words right out of my mouth!
NASCAR wasted no time in handing down punishments for last Sunday’s incidents at New Hampshire, issuing a slew of reprimands Monday less than 24 hours after the checkered flag dropped on the Sylvania 300.
Robby Gordon walks onto the track to exact his revenge on Michael Waltrip after Waltrip and Gordon got together on the backstretch. And despite indications that the sanctioning body would come down hard on those involved in Sunday’s rash of incidents up to and including suspensions, Monday’s fines and points losses seemed to say otherwise.
Robby Gordon was fined a total of $35,000 and docked 50 points in the driver standings for intentionally trying to hit Michael Waltrip's car during Sunday's race, throwing his helmet at Waltrip's car, and cursing during a television interview.
Kasey Kahne was fined $25,000 and docked 25 points in the driver standings for intentionally hitting Kyle Busch's car as retaliation for an earlier accident. In addition to those penalties, both Gordon and Kahne were placed on probation until the end of the season.
Both their car owners were also penalized. Ray Evernham, Kahne's car owner, was docked 25 points, and Jim Smith, the owner of Gordon's car, was docked 50 points.
Also penalized yesterday was Michael Waltrip, who was fined $10,000 and 25 points for pointing the wrong finger during the televised broadcast and having a bad hairdo during his interview, okay not really I’m making that part up. His car owner, Teresa Earnhardt was also penalized 25 points, although she doesn’t know it yet because her teenage daughter, Taylor, has been using her cell phone and no one can get through to let her know.
Now let’s put that in perspective:NASCAR drivers all make at least 6 figure salaries. A nice paycheck that is well deserved and hard earned. But let’s face it, for most of us working stiffs if we were given just one paycheck equivalent to that of a NASCAR driver, we would faint then after we woke up, move to Hawaii buy a condo and never be heard from again. And if you or I were fined $10,000 for something.
It would destroy most of us. We’d be out behind Joe’s Appliance Warehouse looking for an empty refrigerator box to live in. But this isn’t about our world, it’s about NASCAR’s world and that means that there’s ‘NASCAR money’ and ‘Real World money’. The exchange rate is running about $1000 to $1, meaning that every $1000 a NASCAR driver makes is equal to about $1 in the real world.
When all is said and done that means that when you add up all the fines handed down from NASCAR to the drivers in question from this weekend, it something along the lines of a speeding ticket to you and me.
No big deal. And despite all the crowing from NASCAR about parking drivers and the like, Kahne and Gordon will sign their checks made out to NASCAR this week and endure their ‘super-secret’ probation for the rest of the year. It’s ‘super-secret’ because no one in the history of NASCAR has ever really figured out just what probation in NASCAR really means.
So why didn’t NASCAR park these guys?
The only plausible explanation of course is that Gordon and Kahne still has certain ‘compromising’ photos he took of mousier’s Helton and Hunter at last summers NASCAR company picnic and while we can’t reveal exactly what’s on them, let’s just say they involve the lack of clothes and swimming in Lake Lloyd.
I’m kidding naturally, but the point is this:
If a driver gets swept up in the emotions of a race, go ahead cuss like a sailor; throw your helmet at another guy who’s safely tucked away inside his car. But when you start using your 3400-pound stock car as a weapon against another driver, whatever the reason, you need to be sent home so you can watch the next race on TV from the comfort of your very own living room; end of story.
That’s the proper stance for NASCAR to take; a stance that needs to be taken before someone gets hurt, seriously.
Knock, knock, anyone home?
Thanks Greg, Oh BTW, (this just in) for telling the truth....using the same scale NASCAR does for issueing fines..That'll be $13 and you have to listen to Bill
Weber call an entire race!
Your right....that is a little harsh...how about just the 13 bucks....
Mark
'
After wadding up their cars and then, trying to do the same to the Nextel Cup cars of Michael Waltrip and Kyle Busch. Instead of going to theinfield care center for the mandatory check-up, following a Nascar wreck. They both needed to find the closest ATM, so they could have cash-in-hand, when they went into the principle's office (NASCAR trailer) to get detention for their actions on and off the track!
I couldn't agree more with Greg Engle from "Cup Scene Daily"....
Greg,you took the words right out of my mouth!
NASCAR wasted no time in handing down punishments for last Sunday’s incidents at New Hampshire, issuing a slew of reprimands Monday less than 24 hours after the checkered flag dropped on the Sylvania 300.
Robby Gordon walks onto the track to exact his revenge on Michael Waltrip after Waltrip and Gordon got together on the backstretch. And despite indications that the sanctioning body would come down hard on those involved in Sunday’s rash of incidents up to and including suspensions, Monday’s fines and points losses seemed to say otherwise.
Robby Gordon was fined a total of $35,000 and docked 50 points in the driver standings for intentionally trying to hit Michael Waltrip's car during Sunday's race, throwing his helmet at Waltrip's car, and cursing during a television interview.
Kasey Kahne was fined $25,000 and docked 25 points in the driver standings for intentionally hitting Kyle Busch's car as retaliation for an earlier accident. In addition to those penalties, both Gordon and Kahne were placed on probation until the end of the season.
Both their car owners were also penalized. Ray Evernham, Kahne's car owner, was docked 25 points, and Jim Smith, the owner of Gordon's car, was docked 50 points.
Also penalized yesterday was Michael Waltrip, who was fined $10,000 and 25 points for pointing the wrong finger during the televised broadcast and having a bad hairdo during his interview, okay not really I’m making that part up. His car owner, Teresa Earnhardt was also penalized 25 points, although she doesn’t know it yet because her teenage daughter, Taylor, has been using her cell phone and no one can get through to let her know.
Now let’s put that in perspective:NASCAR drivers all make at least 6 figure salaries. A nice paycheck that is well deserved and hard earned. But let’s face it, for most of us working stiffs if we were given just one paycheck equivalent to that of a NASCAR driver, we would faint then after we woke up, move to Hawaii buy a condo and never be heard from again. And if you or I were fined $10,000 for something.
It would destroy most of us. We’d be out behind Joe’s Appliance Warehouse looking for an empty refrigerator box to live in. But this isn’t about our world, it’s about NASCAR’s world and that means that there’s ‘NASCAR money’ and ‘Real World money’. The exchange rate is running about $1000 to $1, meaning that every $1000 a NASCAR driver makes is equal to about $1 in the real world.
When all is said and done that means that when you add up all the fines handed down from NASCAR to the drivers in question from this weekend, it something along the lines of a speeding ticket to you and me.
No big deal. And despite all the crowing from NASCAR about parking drivers and the like, Kahne and Gordon will sign their checks made out to NASCAR this week and endure their ‘super-secret’ probation for the rest of the year. It’s ‘super-secret’ because no one in the history of NASCAR has ever really figured out just what probation in NASCAR really means.
So why didn’t NASCAR park these guys?
The only plausible explanation of course is that Gordon and Kahne still has certain ‘compromising’ photos he took of mousier’s Helton and Hunter at last summers NASCAR company picnic and while we can’t reveal exactly what’s on them, let’s just say they involve the lack of clothes and swimming in Lake Lloyd.
I’m kidding naturally, but the point is this:
If a driver gets swept up in the emotions of a race, go ahead cuss like a sailor; throw your helmet at another guy who’s safely tucked away inside his car. But when you start using your 3400-pound stock car as a weapon against another driver, whatever the reason, you need to be sent home so you can watch the next race on TV from the comfort of your very own living room; end of story.
That’s the proper stance for NASCAR to take; a stance that needs to be taken before someone gets hurt, seriously.
Knock, knock, anyone home?
Thanks Greg, Oh BTW, (this just in) for telling the truth....using the same scale NASCAR does for issueing fines..That'll be $13 and you have to listen to Bill
Weber call an entire race!
Your right....that is a little harsh...how about just the 13 bucks....
Mark
'
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