(By Greg Engle CupScene.com Editor,NASCAR Examiner)
Posted: Thursday,September 30th, 2010
No doubt the odds were against them the start, but nonetheless Richard Childress made his appeal before the National Stock Car Racing Appeals Panel Wednesday.
The outcome was almost predictable.
But was it predictable because the evil suits at NASCAR were hell bent on making their penalties stick, or was it because they were right?
It all started after the Richmond race when NASCAR warned the Richard Childress Racing team that the No. 33 Chevy driven by Clint Bowyer was nearly too high to pass post race inspection.
The following week, Bowyer won the race at New Hampshire but NASCAR took the car back to their Research and Development Center in Concord North Carolina. Later in the week they announced that the car was too high and hit the team hard. They issued a fine of $150,000, suspended the crew chief for six races and took 150 points away from Bowyer and Childress. The result left Bowyer in last place in the championship Chase and Childress fighting mad saying within a few hours after the penalties were issued that he would appeal.MORE>>>
LOUDON, NH - SEPTEMBER 19: Clint Bowyer, driver of the #33 Cheerios / Hamburger Helper Chevrolet, pits during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Sylvania 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on September 19, 2010 in Loudon, New Hampshire. (Photo by Tom Whitmore/Getty Images for NASCAR)
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