Bankruptcy

NASCAR Issues Penalties

By J. Michael McBride

Drivers Busch and Stewart are both on probation for 6 races, according to the newly released NASCAR edict. Evidently, there was "an incident" on the track and then one in private (Stewart allegedly punched Busch in the officials' trailer!).

"NASCAR spokesman Ramsey Poston said the measures would have been more severe if Stewart and Busch had rubbed fenders while pit crew members were working on pit road, endangering their safety.

'We took a lot into consideration,' Poston said. 'The drivers do have greater latitude, pit road was closed, there was no personnel on the track. It's an emotional sport, there's emotion on the track. They should not have been banging each other after the accident. But they were not banging each other on a 'hot' pit road. That is very different and would have been dealt with much more severely.'"

Here is a link to the full tale:
http://sports.myway.com/news/02122008/v3190.html

Michael

Full post as published by Texas Lawyer Blog on February 12, 2008 (boomark / email).