UPDATE Crew chief Bootie Barker said he's been running all season the same wing mount setup on Scott Riggs' #66 Chevy that was confiscated on Saturday after NASCAR officials decided it was illegal. He reminded that the car passed two inspections on Thursday and wasn't impounded until somebody in the garage fingered Riggs' team and Haas CNC racing teammate #70-Johnny Sauter. "I'm not going to make any excuses," Barker said before Sunday's Coca-Cola 600 at Lowe's Motor Speedway. "The car is my responsibility. But if you knew the whole story it would be like, 'Hmph.' I do myself more harm than good if I say anymore." Series director John Darby said NASCAR began looking into the allegations on Thursday night. "All I know is the mounts were not in the same place as they were Thursday morning when they went through inspection," Darby said. Darby said both teams are likely to face a punishment similar to what Dale Earnhardt Jr's team did last season after problems were discovered with the wing mount at Darlington. Earnhardt was docked 100 championship points and crew chief Tony Eury Jr. fined $100,000 and suspended for six races. Barker believes he knows who turned the team in. "I wish I could tell you some stuff," he said. "It would probably work against me until I know everything. The person I think that did it, and what we really did, it's pretty … I've never done it. I'll put it that way."
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05/24/08 NASCAR officials confiscated the Haas CNC Racing NASCAR Sprint Cup entries of Johnny Sauter and Scott Riggs Saturday afternoon at Lowe's Motor Speedway.
Officials loaded the cars onto rollbacks in the Sprint Cup garage area Saturday afternoon while the crews worked to get their backup cars ready for practice.
“We’ve got an issue with the rear-wing mounts of the No. 66 and 70 cars," NASCAR spokesman Kerry Tharp said Saturday. “We took a look at them here a little while ago and they had altered the location of the upper wing mounting points."
The cars will be taken to NASCAR's Research and Development Center for further evaluation, which could lead to penalties next week. The two teams will start at the rear of the field in Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600.
Tharp said that the garage is a “self-policing area" and that the issue with the improper mounting on the wing to the body was pointed out to NASCAR.
“It was brought to our attention, we followed up, we found it," he said. Scenedaily.com