NASCAR confiscates Robby Gordon’s rear axle housing
“The bottom line is we were no more ‘body yawed’ than anybody else," Gordon said May 30, “even though our rear end had more toe.
“We … pulled our right-side trailing arm forward and our left-side trailing arm backwards. We fit the template on the right side before the race. So we aren’t doing anything funny there; there was no advantage."
Gordon, 40, said the rear axle measurement was one degree outside the NASCAR limit, and said he felt the penalty was “excessive" for the infraction.
“We missed the one-degree rule by one degree, but we missed … off the frame rails, which gives us the amount of yaw that we get in our cars," he said.
“In this economy and these times, I think they need to re-evaluate it. Just like the Carl Long deal. That’s ridiculous. Carl doesn’t build his engines."
05/26/09 NASCAR kept the rear axle housing of Robby Gordon's car following the Coca-Cola 600 and will do further inspections of it this week at its Research and Development Center, NASCAR spokesman Kerry Tharp said Monday night. If there are any penalties to Gordon and his Robby Gordon Motorsports team, they will be announced later this week, Tharp said. Gordon finished third in the rain-delayed race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. SceneDaily