UPDATE #2 After the race, NASCAR met with Hall of Fame racing co-owner Tom Garfinkel and apparently cleared the team of any wrongdoing. “NASCAR had reason to believe we were doing something we shouldn’t have been doing – and we weren’t doing it," Garfinkel said. “But they had sufficient reason to believe that because of some mistakes in procedure that we made." Yeley said that each week, his team uses a drink system that requires crew members to put a cold water bag into the car before the race. If they put it in early, it gets too hot and isn’t drinkable. But NASCAR apparently felt something was amiss, and ran the car through inspection both with and without the water bag to address weight concerns. Officials apparently suspected that the #96 team had gone to the old trick of putting lead in the water bag to make extra weight. After the race, Pemberton said the team had “served our penalties. We’re done with them," he said. “We’re comfortable with that team and we feel like they weren’t trying to pull the wool over our eyes."
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07/12/08 Hall of Fame Racing's No. 96 Toyota was held in the inspection bay at Chicagoland Speedway by NASCAR officials until shortly before the start of Saturday night's LifeLock.com 400. The car failed pre-race inspection when two water bottles were found in the car containing lead, NASCAR officials said. Driver J.J. Yeley was allowed to join the field after the 42 other cars had already started the pace laps and then was required to serve a stop-and-go penalty on pit road after taking the green flag. Any additional penalties for the infraction will be announced next week, NASCAR officials said.
07/12/08 NASCAR confiscated the brake calipers from the Roush Fenway Racing car of Carl Edwards following the Nationwide Series Dollar General 300 Friday night at Chicagoland Speedway. The calipers were not on NASCAR's list of approved parts, a NASCAR spokesman said late Friday night. Penalties would be announced next week.