Roush keeping an eye on the Henrick cars in question

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Roush keeping an eye on the Henrick cars in question: Car owner Jack Roush [#'s 6,16,17,26,99 Ford's] says he understands that the two cars in question [Hendrick Motorsports #5 and #48 Chevy's] were in fact slightly "out of tolerance," in being off-set a bit to the right (which would help in aerodynamics in corner handling), although Roush said the specific 'miss' was probably too slight to be of any significant advantage. "I've been fined a lot of times for a lot of different things&and if the cars were out of tolerance by a quarter of an inch, which is what I've heard&well, the rest of the garage is held to a much tighter tolerance than that," Roush said. "So we'll see what NASCAR ultimately does about it."(mikemulhern.net)(10-5-2009)

Good for Jack. I hope he keeps a close eye on them

This is interesting...

So, the garage rumors say that they were out of tolerance. NASCAR says they were within tolerance.

Who to believe?

I think I believe the garage rumors...

I believe the garage rumor also.

I guess when you are the best in the business, conspiracies against you are favored. Don't get me wrong, I know this a ford forum

If they're just the "best," why do they feel it necessary to cheat so often?

unfortunately that is a very large part of nascar's history- only thing then it was the wide gray area, now it is pretty much cut and dry legal or illegal

TeamBlueOval wrote:

If they're just the "best," why do they feel it necessary to cheat so often?

Unfortunately I think it's Hendricks nature. If I remember correctly and this goes back many years ago, didn't he get in trouble "cheating" the IRS? or something like that? So cheating in racing is just child's play. I've never trusted the man.

He did get in trouble with the IRS... I think he spent some time in jail and then on house arrest afterwards.

Thanks for confirming that Andrew.

racinfan wrote:

I guess when you are the best in the business, conspiracies against you are favored. Don't get me wrong, I know this a ford forum

You got,that right but let them enjoy it this year because that will be the the last year for a very long time. BET ON IT, ITS MONEY IN THE BANK

TeamBlueOval wrote:

If they're just the "best," why do they feel it necessary to cheat so often?

and those only were the times they got caught. I have always felt Chad found a way to inject TRACTION CONTROL in his setups and was clever enough not to get caught

Yeah many have wondered about that.
not just Chad .... seems I remember a Gordo win and he clearly couldn't do a burnout ..... Oh my

^ I remember that. Wasn't that at Indianapolis one year when he won?

Don't quote me, but I think it was Martinsville.