Robby Gordon Penalty Too Steep

From the Marbles found this 2/22/2008 on 4ever3canadianeh.blogspot.com [flag]

O.K., as most of you know I'm not the biggest fan of Robby Gordon's but even I think the penalty he got for an unapproved nose on his car is way too steep. Robby switched from Ford to Dodge just before the Daytona 500 and showed up for opening day inspections for the Daytona 500 on Feb. 8 with a nose on his car that was still under consideration of NASCAR's governing body and had still yet ... [link]

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Published 2/22/2008 at From the Marbles
... penalty was too steep; David Poole thinks NASCAR got it exactly right. Knowledgeable commentators with completely different opinions ... all's as it should be in NASCAR. [Ranting & Raving, ...

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