MWR and Penske should be penalized for being stupid. Really? Arrange this whole mess on the publicly monitored radio guys? You couldn't come up with a more creative way to fix the race. The fact that the actions these teams took were so bold faced, so clumsy, so wrong for the sport should get everyone involved a suspension and the team's drivers eliminated form the chase. All drivers too, Boyer included, because he was just a stupid as the rest of them. Unfortunately if you keep digging you probably find that this goes even deeper and involves more teams. Looking back at past years, surely this has happened before. It happens in all kinds of racing. Ask Nelson Piquet Jr. why he is running in NASCAR instead of F1. NASCAR needs to make an internal policy of letting this go (bad idea) or clamping down all the way and heavily penalizing when they find these examples. This is the only way to maintain the limited credibility NASCAR when they call this type of racing a "sport". F1 suffers from this same issue. I haven't watched the farce that is INDYCAR lately (past 9 years) but I bet it is manipulated also at some level. We saw examples of the CART races being manipulated in the 90's. NASCAR needs to clamp down when it gets to the level that even non-racing people can pick it out it when the radio transcript is read in a non-racing newspaper. At least maintain the integrity of the show at a level that requires some serious studying to pick out the collusion between teams and drivers. Don't put it right up to our face and expect us not to protest! Fine the teams, remove the drivers form the chase, suspend the crew chiefs past next years Daytona and get on with the show...
-Lucas' Dad
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