The mid-week penalties have been announced by NASCAR.
If you don’t follow racing closely, Tuesday is always known as penalty day for NASCAR. That’s when the higher ups in the sport sit down and decide what the penalties will be from any weekend infractions. Many teams sit on the edge of their seat wondering what will happen. Depending on the infraction, some wonder about losing a Crew Chief for a race or two, the loss of points, or even a lighter wallet. Sometimes drivers are placed on probation, and other times, there’s simply a slap to the wrist. True to form, NASCAR have announced their penalties for the week, this time taking aim at Kyle Busch and Carl Edwards.
Just as a refresher here, the drivers were under the magnifying glass by NASCAR as a result of some on track incidents after Saturday night’s race in Bristol. Carl Edwards pulled off the famous, or maybe infamous, bump and run to shoot past Kyle Busch in the closing laps of the race and take the win. For a full description of what transpired Saturday night you can find it here in an earlier blog entry I entitled Do Unto Others…
So, what happened yesterday when NASCAR handed out their penalties. In my opinion, once again, NASCAR wimped out…






