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NASCAR Hammers Denny Hamlin With Huge Penalty! · Kenny Wallace Media

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  All right, breaking news in the garage area.
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  NASCAR at it again. I'm trying to get my Jags dirt
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  car ready, but I can't. You know why?
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  Because every week NASCAR gives us drama.
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  All right, so I'm going out to Sacramento, CA tomorrow for Kyle
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  Larson and Brad Suite, but I'm getting my Jags dirt car ready
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  to go. There it is.
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  There it is. All right, we got Brody's phone
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  here. Brody's working the camera.
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  He's building outlaw carts. He's going to Millbridge.
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  Breaking news. All right, here we go.
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  Per NASCAR, Danny Hamlin and the number 11 Joe Gibbs Racing team
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  have been hit. We've hit them with an L2 level
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  penalty penalty due to a violation of NASCAR's engine
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  inspection process. Danny Hamlin and Joe Gibbs
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  Racing have been penalized 75 driver points.
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  Like the driver had something to do with it.
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  Yeah. Danny builds the motors.
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  Jesus. And ten playoff points while
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  crew chief Chris Gaybhart receives a $100,000 fine.
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  Because we know. We know.
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  Chris Gaybhart tells TRD what to do with the motors.
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  All right, I'm going to read this other part and I read it
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  over and over and I get it, but we're going to bust it all down.
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  All right, I've told you the penalty.
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  Danny Hamlin still locked in the playoffs, but it will seed him
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  differently. OK, Danny Hamlin still locked in
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  the playoffs, but it will seed him differently because of the
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  attempt playoff points and the 75 point deduction in the driver
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  points. All right, this is NASCAR.
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  Each race winning engine must be inspected by NASCAR once the
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  race team determines that its life cycle is complete.
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  All right, let me D bullshit that for you.
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  They they win a race and this this race they won was at
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  Bristol way back in March. So Denny Hamlin's race winning
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  engine from March at Bristol, they said that this motor is
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  done. We're going to rebuild it.
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  NASCAR says this and I'm repeating myself.
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  I just told you what happened there.
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  He won in March with this motor. Each race winning engine must be
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  inspected by NASCAR once the race team determines that its
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  life cycle is complete, a NASCAR state statement read.
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  In this instance, prior to presenting the engine to NASCAR
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  TRD Toyota Racing Development, they took the motor apart and
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  rebuilt that Bristol winning motor #11's Bristol winning race
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  engine. Per the NASCAR rule book, this
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  violation results in an L2 penalty to the race team and
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  driver. Toyota Racing Development
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  reported this violation. So alright, let's the bullshit
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  it again. Second D bullshit.
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  This was TR DS fault. Why did they do this?
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  It's crazy. As expensive as NASCAR is, they
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  somehow want to control, they want to inspect.
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  So you build the motor, you run the race and when you when you
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  win a race and you rebuild that motor, they want to see it.
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  See, they used to take those motors apart.
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  A lot of drama going on. They want they want to see what
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  you got. All right, let's go back.
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  Let's tell you the history of this.
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  Let's go way back to Sears Point, Sonoma.
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  Remember, we joke about it. We got all types of names for
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  these race tracks. You know, Coca-Cola 600, World
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  600, Charlotte Motor Speedway, three names, Sears Point,
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  Sonoma, San Francisco, whatever the hell you want to call it.
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  All right, My brother Rusty. Oh, Herman's brother Rusty.
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  My brother Rusty. Yes, my brother Rusty, when he
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  was with Rodger Penske, Rusty set 10 quick times, QuickTime 10
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  times that year. NASCAR had enough of it pissed
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  them off. So what they did is they took
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  the the Ford Motor out of Rusty's cars, out of that car.
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  They took the motor apart on the asphalt at Sonoma's pit area.
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  Ugly, ugly scene here. They, you know, they, they
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  checked the oxygen in the air at the shop and they build these
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  motors. But tick, you know, real
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  meticulous and NASCAR has proven a point.
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  Take the motor out of the car at Sears .20 years ago, 30 years
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  ago and they, they laid it. They laid it out for all the
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  competitors to see. This is when they found out that
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  Rodger Penske and Rusty were turning their motor 10,000 RPMS
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  and they and they let Robert Yates and and and Doug Yates and
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  Roush, they were able to see their competitors parts work
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  your ass off. What?
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  What Rusty had was the light rotating parts called inertia.
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  You get on the gas and it goes. Instead of putting gear in the
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  car, it's got light rotating parts.
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  Rusty's turn to 10,000 RPMS. He sets QuickTime 10 times that
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  year. Unfair to let everybody see what
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  you did to get this advantage. So NASCAR since then, they want
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  to see everybody's motors. TRD messed up and they rebuilt
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  the motor without NASCAR looking at it.
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  Makes sense once again. Let's let's try it.
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  Danny Hamlin won Bristol, right? They didn't let NASCAR see it
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  before they rebuilt it. And here it was that it was back
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  in March. I mean, talk about a kick in the
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  nuts, right? But here, here's what's funny
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  about it all. No race team builds her damn
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  motors. OK, All right, let's say Richard
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  Childress does. But, you know, you got DEI and
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  you got a collaboration. All these motors are built by,
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  OK, let's say race teams. But yes and no, right?
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  So TR DS over here. It's all their fault.
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  You know, Denny Hamlin sitting at home with his kids and they
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  penalize him. He's like, wait, what?
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  So, I mean, this is how it goes in the sport.
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  I guess Denny's supposed to watch him build the motors.
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  And I guess crew chief, you know, Gabe Hart, supposed to
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  watch him build the motors. Listen, it is what it is, OK?
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  I broke it down for you. You get it?
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  You understand it. All this is to control
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  competition. Let me see your motor.
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  I don't want you to get too big of an advantage like Mark Martin
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  said on catching up with Mark Martin, Double file restarts all
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  of the cars the same, all the motors the same, and we wonder
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  why the hell everybody's running into each other, spinning each
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  other out. I'm not, I'm not bashing NASCAR
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  by any means. I'm just telling you what this
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  is all about. NASCAR says.
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  I want to see your motor, you know, used to be where they just
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  check the compression, check the cubic inch and that was it,
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  right? Check the compression, check the
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  cubic inch. There you go.
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  Now they want to see your motor. In case you doing something,
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  they might tell another team, hey, look at Rusty Wallace's
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  motor that we just put all over the pits.
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  It's got light rotating parts now.
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  And now those other teams, they go to work, you know, and they
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  might find it. So All right, listen, I broke it
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  down for you. I don't know what else to say.
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  You guys respond right here. TR It's TR DS fault now.
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  Now all of a sudden, is it Denny's fault?
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  Is it Gabe? I mean, Joe Gibbs sitting on the
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  couch in the house. TRDTRD OK, Then you got Roush
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  Yates. Then you got another Chevrolet.
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  You know, Chevrolet's got their motor bill and things.
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  So this this this is a case we're basically an outside
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  source. TRD is an outside source.
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  They're not in Joe Gibbs, they're not in there.
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  They're not in Joe Gibbs shop working on the race car, working
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  on the motors TR DS up the road. They somewhere around, but they
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  they're not a Joe Gibbs shop. All right, respond right here.
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  Big penalty Danny Hamlin still in the playoffs, but instead in
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  seat first or second. He lost 75 driver championship
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  points. Ten playoff points now, instead
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  of Danny Hamlin being here, he'd be here.
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  But he's in the playoffs. All right, everybody, remember,
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  Listen to us on iTunes or Spotify.
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  Until then, I got to get back to working on my dirt car.
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  This this damn NASCAR For one thing.
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  Austin Dillon Rain at Michigan.