Last Sunday's race winner in Las Vegas, Carl Edwards, has become the second driver this season to be slapped with a 100-point penalty by NASCAR officials although, in true series style, he was be able to retain his second success of the season.
Edwards, who also won round two of the season, at Fontana the previous Monday, was penalised for failing a routine post-race inspection at Las vegas Motor Speedway after his victory on the weekend, losing 100 hard-earned points and seeing crew chief Bob Osborne suspended for six races. He follows midfielder Robby Gordon into the scrutineer's notebook this season and provisionally drops from first to seventh in the Sprint Cup standings.
The #99 Dish Network Ford was found to contravene the rules when inspection found that the lid to its oil reservoir tank was unattached, contravening sections 12-4-A (actions detrimental to stock car racing); 12-4-Q (car, car parts, components and/or equipment used do not conform to NASCAR rules); and 20-2.1J (regarding devices or duct work that permits air to pass from one area of the interior of the car to another) of the 2008 NASCAR rule book.
As well as the penalties applied to Edwards' points total and crew chief Osborne, car owner Jack Roush also lost 100 car owner points and Osborne was fined $100,000 and placed on probation for the rest of the year. A 30-day NASCAR suspension means Osborne can not work with another team at a Nationwide or Craftsman Truck Series event during that period. The punishment applied to the driver also goes a little further, however.
“In the event that the #99 team qualifies for the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, the team will not receive the ten bonus points for the UAW-Dodge 400 victory used for determining the Chase seeding order,” NASCAR said in a statement.
Edwards and Roush-Fenway have the right to appeal the penalty.
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