Sorry this took a while gang, but here I am with yet another miscarriage of justice. So by now unless you have been living, under a rock. You know the final four are set for the championship race at Homestead. Congrats to Gordon, Truex Jr., Harvick, and Kyle Busch. The one name you see missing from this group is Joey Logano. The driver of the number 22 car. The driver that was dominating the chase. Won 3 straight cup races. The kid nobody could catch. So what happened you ask?
Lets rewind back to Martinsville, November 1st. Joey Logano is in the lead with just over 50 laps to go. Looks like he is going to cruise to the win and the free pass into the championship race. When Matt Kennseth happened. The driver of the 20 car, whom was 9 laps down intentionally puts Young Master Logano into the wall. Handing Jeff Gordon the win, and the free ride into the final race.
So now after the anger in my soul, or the heartburn from the Chili died down. I decided to start looking into the rule books at what could possibly be done about this heinous situation. I am going to take you to the NASCAR rule book. Section 12 is the area we will be looking at. It is titled. “Actions Detrimental to Stock Car Racing”. Lets look at section 12.1 and 12.8 : “a driver can face appealable penalties for actions detrimental to stock car racing.” Kind of vague if you ask me. So what exactly is considered detrimental? I guess that is up to Mr. France. Does Brian France remind you a little of Roger Goodell?
Well Matt Kennseth was suspended for 2 races. That leaves me thinking. “What about Joey?” He was well on his way to winning that race, which would have put him in the final four. Instead he was wrecked out, and fell to eighth in the points. What does Joey get out of this? Well Mr. Logano, and Duke University Football probably feel the same. Cause they both get nothing! There is nothing in the rule book that I have read that would address this. If it weren’t for Kennseth’s actions it was “more than likely “he would have continued on to win this race.
So NASCAR, and Mr. France, here is where you can be different. Here’s where you get to do the right thing. Something the ACC and NCAA know nothing about. You can create a fifth spot in the final Homestead race for Joey. He was the victim of a, by the rule book, illegal action. There is still time. Homestead is a week away. This would be the only fair action. We will soon see if NASCAR is fair or not. So until then, Wait for the Whistle, and always play by the rules.
