Michael Waltrip's penalties

I think the penalties were fair and intended to make a big statment to all. Hopefully some of these guys will get the message since the penalties keep getting stiffer. I have always liked Waltrip and now that he's not with DEI, I think I'll miss his commercials with Jr. :(

I cannot believe that they thought that they would get away with it. Wonder how much Waltrip is kicking himself about getting let go of DEI now. And then to have more than one team cheat and so early in the season when you know the officials are going to be keeping an eye on everyone. I say good job to NASCAR by sticking by the rules. I just hope that if someone else cheats in the future that the penalty is the same. I remember a couple years ago when Jr. said Hell or something on tv and they deducted points from him, and then someone else later in the year said something worse and they were just fined money....We shall see...Lets go racin boys

I wonder what these guys are thinking, that's the 5th one I've heard about and the season hasn't even started! The others were Kasey Kahne and Matt Kenset (holes drilled in the wheel well to help aerodynamics) and Elliot Sadler and Scott Riggs (holes in the trunk lid to let air escape) The first 2 lost 50 points for both owner and driver. The last 2 lost 25 points for both owner and driver. But none of those even compare to having jet fuel like Waltrip... if that really is what they found in the intake manifold. Roush was also fined since 3 of the drivers were his. I've never heard of so much cheating at one time. They do need to have the stiff penalties, and like you said money isn't going to make much of a difference to them, so they have no choice but to penalize them with points and suspending the crew chiefs. Last year when Gordon pushed Kenseth he was hoping that he'd get fined money instead of points. Obviously the penalties aren't enough to keep them from cheating, though.