[align=center]NASCAR Owner Fires Back
[/align][align=center]By MIKE HARRIS,[/align][align=center][/align][align=center]AP[/align][align=center][/align][align=center]Posted: 2008-03-07 [/align][align=center][/align][align=center]Filed Under: NASCAR[/align][align=center][/align][align=center]HAMPTON, Ga. (March 7) - Car owner Jack Roush strongly denied any intentional wrongdoing Friday in the wake of NASCAR penalties that knocked driver Carl Edwards out of first place in the Sprint Cup points and put crew chief Bob Osborne on a six-week suspension.
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[/align][align=center][/align][align=center]Jack Roush is "mad" over a report that the team of Carl Edwards, pictured, intentionally cheated this past weekend in Las Vegas. Check out other recent stars who have run into trouble for cheating.

Jack is mad," a visibly upset Roush declared as he strode to a podium Friday at Atlanta Motor Speedway to respond to Toyota official Lee White's claim in a published report that Edwards' No. 99 Roush Fenway Racing team had intentionally taken the cover off the car's oil tank to gain an aerodynamic advantage.

"He's a real nice guy," Roush said of White, a former Roush employee. "I respect him, but he's also a great racer and would seek any advantage he might think he had an opportunity for."

The 99 car failed postrace inspection last Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway after NASCAR inspectors found there was no cover on the oil tank. Roush Fenway Racing said the cover came off when a bolt failed during the race, possibly due to vibration.

White had a hard time believing that could happen.

"I guarantee you the cover bolts didn't fall out, because if they fall, the engine leaks and you can't run," he said in a story published Friday in USA Today. "If you want something to fall off, you fix it so it can."

White, general manager of Toyota Racing Development, backed off slightly Friday from his published accusations.

"Safety is paramount in NASCAR," he told The Associated Press. "The point (of his published quotes) was, in my opinion, the penalty, because of the safety aspect, could have been more severe. Purely because of the safety aspect.

"Whether it was all done intentionally or not, that's not my job. That is (Sprint Cup director) John Darby's job, and he is pretty good at it. I'm not about to try and help him do his job."[/align][align=center][/align][align=center][/align][align=center][/align][align=center]
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Sounds like the Democrats not allowing Florida or Michigan deligates to vote because they broke the rules.

 

 

interesting.. all this emissions stuff takes gas mileage, thus continuting the energy crisis the people who insist they be installed claim their is... how ironic.

a friend and i who both have straight ipes and i have noticed that cars with straight pipes have cooler exhuast tips than cars with mufflers and cats.. (my car still has cats though). so that means that cars with all this stuff run warmer... weird eh?

but back to topic.... i think he cheated and got caught. everybody trys it at some point. theres not a team out there that hasn't pushed the limits.. in an anonomous survey of nascar teams, like 39 admitted to stretching the rules.... Jack Roush and Carl Edwards got caught this time.. sorry