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NASCAR Asks Teams to be on Lookout

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Gen-6 Testing at Texas Motor Speedway on April 11, 2013  Photo - Getty Images
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Gen-6 Testing at Texas Motor Speedway on April 11, 2013
Photo – Getty Images

In the aftermath of the bombings in Boston, NASCAR is asking that teams be on the look out as they roam through the garage for any suspicious activity going forward.

A crew chiefs-only meeting was called Saturday morning at Richmond International Raceway to ask teams to be more aware of activity going on in the pit area. NASCAR is asking teams to be more aware of their surroundings going forward into the season and to report any irregular activity. Continue reading

Penske Racing Penalized by NASCAR

Crew members work on the rear end of Brad Keselowski's No. 2 Ford prior to the start of Saturday night's NRA 500.  Photo - Robert Laberge/Getty Images for Texas Motor Speedway
Crew members work on the rear end of Brad Keselowski‘s No. 2 Ford prior to the start of Saturday night’s NRA 500.
Photo – Robert Laberge/Getty Images for Texas Motor Speedway

The punishment has been dealt to the No. 2 & 22 teams of Penske Racing after their actions at Texas Motor Speedway. Both crew chiefs, Paul Wolfe and Todd Gordon, have been suspended and fined. Drivers, Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski, have also been penalized after the teams’ actions at Texas.

The penalties handed down to Penske Racing from NASCAR involves drivers and crew. Saturday, NASCAR confiscated the rear-end housing off both the No. 2 and 22 cars hours before the race. According to NASCAR, the rules broken by Penske Racing were in violation of section 12-1; 12-4J and 20-12. Continue reading

Sprint Cup Competition Runs Deep Both ‘On’ and ‘Off’ the Track

This story may have actually started at the close of the 2012 season when Keselowski won the Sprint Cup Championship  Photo - Todd Warshaw/Getty Images
This story may have actually started at the close of the 2012 season when Keselowski won the Sprint Cup Championship
Photo – Todd Warshaw/Getty Images

And now for the rest of this story…and fans can expect more chapters in the coming weeks and months

Apparently there is a rumored back-story to the Penske rear-end housing parts taken by NASCAR officials at Texas Motor Speedway this past weekend. And this rumor may, at least in part, be what Keselowski is referring to when he said,

“You have no idea what this team has endured in the last seven days…”

And perhaps, what the Penske teams have endured is for longer than seven days. This story may actually have started when the season ended in 2012 and re-started in Daytona 2013. Continue reading

Fan4Racing Fan2Fan NASCAR Talk – Monday, April 15, 2013

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Fan2Fan NASCAR Talk begins with our guest Tom JensenEditor-in-Chief at SPEED. Tom Jensen also has a special interest in Barrett Jackson auctions and fittingly, drives a Ford F-150, but lists a 1964 Oldsmobile Starfire as his dream car.

Also, joining us is the President of Kansas Speedway, Patrick Warren, to talk about their upcoming NASCAR weekend.

On our Fan4Racing panel this week is media guest, Dontae Allen, from BackStretchFans.blogspot.com

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