[Quality88]

Tough Trucks. Tough drivers. Tough racing.
If NASCAR truly believed its own promotional slogans, it would've added up to tough luck for Ron Hornaday and Todd Bodine in this past Saturday's Camping World Truck Series race at Gateway International Raceway -- and let's move on to New Hampshire.
But instead NASCAR went limp, forgot the advertising hype and all of a sudden, it was just plain tough for Matt Crafton and everyone watching the Copart 200.
As a competitor all you can ask for is fairness and consistency when your league's ruling body hands down decisions. If you get that, you'll lose some and you'll win some -- but the bottom line is you'll have a pretty good idea of what to expect no matter what you did to prompt the ruling.
On Saturday, it appeared fairness and consistency went out the NASCAR control tower's window.
On a single-file restart with eight laps to go, series points leader Ron Hornaday led Todd Bodine and Matt Crafton, Hornaday's biggest rival for the championship. Hornaday got a great start and Crafton a better one than Bodine, who moved down the race track to block Crafton -- and even admitted it later.
The unwritten rule on blocking still remains: Block if you want to, but if it doesn't work and you end up wrecked, remember, you blocked a competitor who was probably faster than you.

NASCAR.COM - Tough trucks or just tough luck? Crafton penalty unfair - Sep 15, 2009


I didn't realize that the writers for nascar.com were now allowed to call foul on NA$CAR...

[kkfan91]

YAY for having 3 threads on this

[Stewart Fan]

Yeah I read that on Nascar.com

I guess we will just have to agree to disagree.

[Bob Tanner]

I would guess the person who gave the OK to this piece being put on NA__AR.com has been relieved of duties.
NA__AR.com is like listening to MRN; "Where hever is heard/ A discouraging word/ And the skies are not cloudy all day."

Thankx for posting this Dustin. I guess it's "Just good, hard racing," if the CTS team involved has no direct ties to the Cup teams, eh? Itherwise it's a case of "Rough driving."

[jks812]

Originally Posted by Bob Tanner

I guess it's "Just good, hard racing," if the CTS team involved has no direct ties to the Cup teams, eh? Itherwise it's a case of "Rough driving."

Thats what I was thinking. When it was Todd involved, it was just racing, when it was Hornaday it's rough driving.

[mike honcho]

Originally Posted by Quality88

I didn't realize that the writers for nascar.com were now allowed to call foul on NA$CAR...

I think this might be why

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who is owned by Ted Turner

[Bob Tanner]

Originally Posted by mike honcho

I think this might be why

© 2001-2009 NASCAR | Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Turner Entertainment Digital Network NASCAR.COM is part of the Turner Sports and Entertainment Digital Network.

who is owned by Ted Turner

OK, that makes a little sense. However, being owned by the former Mr. Fonda doesn't exactly endear the site to me.

[Quality88]

Originally Posted by Bob Tanner

OK, that makes a little sense. However, being owned by the former Mr. Fonda doesn't exactly endear the site to me.

Would have to concur on that one.