Loudon

[LMITOUT]

From speed's HSOforum:

"SPEED reporter Bob Dillner has a strong record of solid reporting from the NASCAR garage; so there is no rational reason for us to consider that the events and conversations he related to SPEED viewers are anything other than the truth," said Chris Long, SPEED Executive Producer for NASCAR programming.

Fox Sports just posted a story regarding this about 20 minutes ago too.

[Cyberfish]

Well, I had a good time fishing with my Dad and a friend and his Dad out on eddies launch. we got skunked, except his Dad got a 6 pounder! Better than watching the race, since I picked the wrong HMS cars!

[JohnMickish]

So who do you think is lying? Was it a plant by another team (that's what Harvick says) or was there an issue and NASCAR and RCR are lying about it?

Does NASCAR want RCR to have a non Dale title?

[LMITOUT]

It has nothing to do with Dale or making sure that RCR wins the title regardless.

My theory:

They were caught but NASCAR doesn't want to make a fuss because of the bad publicity they'd receive because the team is #1 in the standings in both Busch and Cup. How would it look if your #1 guy is/has been bending the rules to win and how that would affect the credibility of NASCAR? Look at MLB and the growth hormones, etc and what that's done to baseball. If this is indeed the case that they have been working the gray area and it was early in the season, there would have been warnings, statements given, confiscation of parts, etc. Too late in the season to let that out now. Sweep it under the rug and move on and quietly telling RCR to knock it off.

The other thing I was thinking about was that someone from RCR did leak, pun intended, that they were doing this and another team found out. To not look like a tattle-tale they tipped off Dilner to report it. NASCAR checked the wheels, found out that they were worked on, but then swept it under the rug to avoid the bad PR.

Maybe someone made the story up and tipped off Dilner so that it would get reported, just to shake up RCR and try to throw them off for a while since they've been so hot. I find this theory less likely, but another thought.

Seems odd that Dilner would just make this up out of thin air.

[JohnMickish]

I can buy most of that.

[LMITOUT]

I read today that Harvick believes he was set up by another team and also claims to know who it is but won't say.

I'm going to wager a guess that in the next week or so the person who gets spun hard when Harvick is in the area was the bad guy!

[JohnMickish]

Evernham motorsports or Bill Davis? Blaney was let go at the end of last year so he could hold a grudge??

I'm going to blame Mikey.

[Cyberfish]

This kind of stuff goes on whenever someone starts winning a lot. If he keeps up his winning ways we will probably start seeing rumors that he is gay too!

[harvey lee]

You have that right.Whenever some wins to much people start to hate them.Look at Gordo.

[LMITOUT]

Hating is one thing, sabotage is other.

Mikey....rofl.

[lawdog]

Mikey is probably just worrying about sabotaging those field fillers like Chad Chaffin and Morgan Shepard who keep qualifying and keeping him out of races, why would he even be worrying about the leaders when those guys are his real competition... Look out Ted Christopher, I saw Mikey eyeing your ride the other day...

[Sifty]

The winning way's. It's funny like Lee say's you start winning everything and people will talk.

Sifty

[OUTDOORNUT]

Report: MWR tries to hire Derrick Copes ONLY Engineer! ha ha

Maybe Toyota will just pay the other field fillers to not show up, that way Mikey has to make the race!

[Cyberfish]

Mikey found out his problem in qualifying was too much hair, it was slowing him down, so went out and got a new doo, now he will be wicked fast!