Recognition Part Duh?

According to the Sponsor of an awards program, coming to a car show near you, the author of the E-Mail that quite a few of us have received begging for our votes so he may receive his shot at glory and a $15.00 Cheap Ass Trophy, has been spoken too and due to the fact that he was a "friend" and this was "an attempt at light-hearted humor ", he will be forgiven.

Do you get the same taste in your mouth that I do. Do you feel that some type of penalty should be given. Do you feel like someone is yanking your chain on this.

My feeling is, that had this not been a friend, somehow the end result would have been different.

So let us look at it from the NASCAR point of view. Now I know this Organization has nothing to do with the situation or the Car Show scene in the State of Maine or anywhere else. I also know that in all likely hood this is going to get thrown in my face and probobly start a war in some Third World Country half way around the world.

So NASCAR has a rule book that takes about 15 years to understand but constantly changes so you never get to understand the rules thus the need of a rule book.

Huh?

They use a system that is weird to say the least. Say a team uses a part that the rule says you can't use, they get penalized. Say a team uses a part that the rule book says nothing about, they get penalized, because the rule book didn't say they could.

So as it applies to this scenario just because the rules didn't say he couldn't beg for votes it also doesn't say he could. So if Bill France were still alive and running this thing it would probably end like this.

Loss of 20 drivers points and mandatory random drug testing. Loss of 20 Owner points . Driver suspended from the next 4 car shows. Crew chief fined $250,000 and suspended 12 car shows and probation for the rest of the season. At which point half his sponsors would would hold back their checks and he would file for bankruptcy.

So maybe the rules ought to be just a little more specific.

I wonder how the NCAA would have handled it...