John Darby
John Darby
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Our guys are changed with, in policing the sport, expecting that they have to take the personalities out of it. They can't look at who's driving the car, or who the crew chief on the car is. It's more of, this is a car and all 43 of them are checked the same.
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Without clear-cut evidence in the parts and pieces and the thing we do in inspection that would prove the cars to be outside the rulebook, we don't have the ability to react to that.
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It can enhance the excitement of the race. As it transfers to stock cars, and particularly applies to Daytona and Talladega, with the cars running closer together, a bump draft at the right time in the right place is not the worst thing in the world. But it has been turning bump drafting into slam drafting, because the hits just keep getting harder and harder and harder.
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Every bump draft will not create a penalty. Every time a car touches another car will not create a penalty. Unless it becomes very apparent to us that there is an unnecessary hit, specifically in one of the no zones, we will not issue a penalty.
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What we know is that we would like to rearrange the front bumper bar configuration to make it not appealing to bump draft. At the same time, we have to maintain the integrity of the front end of the race cars for crash purposes. There's a lot of energy absorption in the front bumpers that we run on the cars here.
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The cars passed postrace inspection, ... The shock absorbers themselves, after being tested and disassembled and everything, all of the parts and pieces were well within the confines of the rule book. However, the shock build -- the assembly of the parts and what the shock it intended to do -- it's not within the spirit and the intent of what our shock absorber rules surround.
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I don't care who it is, the point leader or the guy running 43rd, if there is a similar situation to what we had in Loudon, there is nobody who can hide from the penalties we'll have coming.
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One-size-fits-all is fairly accurate. Obviously, teams will still have a half a dozen to 10 or a dozen cars still on board. The difference is, the cars will be so similar that if they do get behind the eight-ball, they'll be able to pull another one out of inventory and keep going.
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We've made a ton of progress with it over the winter and it's down to small changes now. We're doing a lot of work with the wing right now to test it out and see how it's going to work. It has been real positive. We will keep pressing on and in '07 it will race.
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We are pleased that this phase of a complex, protracted, and emotionally charged investigation has been completed with the subject's arrest.
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We're aware of Chad's past penalties. Is it a topic of conversation as we meet about the penalty? Yeah, briefly, but it's a lot easier for us to address each penalty situation on its own, with its own merits, but along with that, it's not that much different in the world we live in: A first-time offense for somebody is a lot of the times treated a little softer than somebody that has a history.
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Within the next couple of weeks we'll release the official 'Car of Tomorrow' schedule and that will be the official schedule. We'll say, 'Here it is, we're not turning back.' -- The important thing is to get that official schedule out, because when it goes out it's printed and everybody says, 'here's the deal,' and then it's time to get going.
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What's happening right now is that ski manufacturers are attempting to provide a one-ski-does-it-all scenario.
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Every bump draft will not create a penalty.