Okay we had the deal- Ranger Robbed at Riverside
.. a story of a little french boy wondering through the woods one day when he came along the big bad wolf and decided he was man enough to beat up the big bad wolf-
but instead got his ass ripped open and punched out enough that he started speaking English, I mean Canadian.
Okay - Lets move on....
NASCAR has made some pretty bad calls in their days, and every sports magazine has written some type of controversy story about NASCAR, as a business, as a sport identity, and again- bad judgment calls.
Lets face it, if your going to tell everyone your number one then you should act like number one, and that was the business sense behind it all when Bill France made the calls.
Now it's 2008 and a new France is at the helm, except this one relies on others to make the calls, something his Father would never allow.
" If you say something - you better be ready to stand behind it. If someone that works for you say's something- Fire his ass"..... Big Bill France- 1978
NASCAR has made a really bad call on the Gibbons / Ranger deal by throwing a black flag with 2 laps to go, on the leader of the race, who is retiring at the end of the year, and is sponsored by the same company that sponsors the series, for racing a guy cleanly for the position to win. Black Flag for that.... NASCAR is whacked to put it nicely !!
NASCAR has out done themselves once again, by making another bonehead call over the same incident. This time they have fined Gibbons Crew Chief and Mechanic for Verbal Abuse, which was made after the black flag call.
Number One, the fines total $750.00, just shy of a NASCAR CTS Win !!
Number Two, if the NASCAR Official was punched out I could see the penalty,
but verbal abuse... come on... what did they call him....a Poppy head or something ??
Number Three- Nascar makes the call to not just fine them, but throw them out of the race
, and worst yet, until December 30th of this year.
Does that mean the crew guys cant come out to the NASCAR Snowball 200 in November?
Gibbon's team gets the fines and the penalty's and Ranger gets a great big kiss on his ass once again by NASCAR.
Either NASCAR's lips are going to get tired or they need to be taught a lesson in racing.
Ranger cried and NASCAR came running. Gibbons now goes into his last race as a Driver and is treated like this. That's BULLSHIT MY FREINDS !!
Gibbons has done more for this series the any other Driver, and can be credited with being a huge supporter of CASCAR and the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series,
NASCAR does not hold a candle to Gibbons and if anyone should be penalized it should be NASCAR themselves for being first class assholes in the sport of Canadian Stock Car Racing.
And your thoughts ??
instead of nascar suxs and old cascar shirts maybe run off a bunch of "FREE GIBBONS CREW" shirts. anyone who thought or thinks nascar is here to help the local tracks or racers is misguided, any crumbs that fall off they table that get picked up are because mr france could not lick his finger fast enough to pick them up and keep them. one just needs to look west and see how they treated the cascar west super series, and i dont mean that the canned it but how they did it. the letters did not go out to the teams until DEC, a little hard to put a program together when you didnt even know who your dancing with. jmnsho.
That whole deal was messed up if you ask me.
The West getting left out in the cold is as good as the Sportsman guys getting dropped.
With Teams being so underfunded right now, those other series would have made allot of sense to have around right now.
To say this is Canada's best series is a far cry from reality.
With good LM, LLM, ACT, OSS, OSCAR and good Saturday night shows, I don't think it will be too much longer before they pack up the money and head South to find a more lucrative frontier.
I can't believe that Nascar has done this. To do that to Gibbons' crew for verbal abuse, but letting Ranger's crew away with physical abuse is just sickening. This is so unfair that peter's career is going to end without two of his best crew that have been there in good times and bad, getting to share his last race with him. This was a bad judgement call on Nascar's part, as some common sense should have entered the equation, this being Peter's last race. Apparently, it was Richard Coughlin that orchestrated the fines and suspensions. As most people know, since Richard got involved in the old Cascar series, and now Nascar, sponsors have left, and car counts are way down. The racers are all sick of the way they are being looked down upon by Sir Richard. People always questioned if Nascar has any class, and now everybody in the Candian Tire series knows for sure. After all what Peter has done for the series, he deserves to leave it on better terms than Nascar has dictated. I think it would be a great thing if the racers would get together and boycott the Kawartha race unless Nascar reverses the suspensions. Peter has helped all his competitors out over time, like Dj staying in his apartment in North Carolina, to setting Donny's valves in Edmonton, to hauling Nuhn's car out to Riverside so that they could race, etc. etc. Most of the teams owe Peter something, and now would be a good time for them to pay back for all those years that Peter has helped make this series what it is today. The few sponsors that are left NCTS are mostly here because Canadian Tire stayed with Peter all these years, and I bet Canadian Tire does not want to see it end like this. Peter deserves better.
Rangers Crew Physical abusing Gibbons crew? That is news to me!!!