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Logano: “If the principles aren’t enforced, the game will disintegrate”
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Logano: “If the principles aren’t enforced, the game will disintegrate”

By Miles Cooper November 8, 2024
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Race manipulation is not a brand new idea in NASCAR or racing basically. Inventory automobile racing had SpinGate with Clint Bowyer in 2013, Method 1 had CrashGate with Nelson Piquet Jr. in 2008, and IndyCar had its latest P2P scandal involving Group Penske. However as Penske’s personal Joey Logano identified throughout Championship 4 Media Day, the best way a sanctioning physique reacts to such moments can be essential for preserving the game intact.

“Properly, it is every part, proper?” stated Logano when requested in regards to the sustaining the game’s integrity. “I imply, you see loads of documentaries on how sports activities and folks have type of executed issues within the fallacious method, the way it can destroy a sport. NASCAR is backed up towards the wall to the place they needed to do one thing, proper? They should do one thing to manage us. It is everyone, proper?

“Regardless of the rule is, whether or not it is this 100% rule or it is placing the automobiles collectively, if the principles aren’t enforced, the game will disintegrate. It is essential to maintain that.”

The 100% rule was applied following Michael Waltrip Racing’s try and affect the 2013 playoff race, a really gray-area rule that primarily says all rivals should race at 100% of their capacity with the aim of reaching their absolute best ending place in an occasion. 

Logano: “If the principles aren’t enforced, the game will disintegrate”
The rising affect of producers 

However whereas race manipulation has been a scorching subject this week, so has the position of the producers and the way tightly aligned groups representing the identical OEM now are. Ross Chastain and Austin Dillon weren’t Hendrick Motorsports drivers and neither staff even runs Hendrick engines. Regardless of that, they put their very own race apart to safeguard the No. 24 of William Byron. 

Earlier this week, Denny Hamlin stated that the producers have “method an excessive amount of say within the outcomes of those races,” however Logano appeared extra on the present automobile and its position in all of this.

Joey Logano, Team Penske, Shell Pennzoil Ford Mustang, Harrison Burton, Wood Brothers Racing, MotorcraftQuick Lane Ford Mustang

Joey Logano, Group Penske, Shell Pennzoil Ford Mustang, Harrison Burton, Wooden Brothers Racing, MotorcraftQuick Lane Ford Mustang

Picture by: Matthew T. Thacker / NKP / Motorsport Photos

“Yeah, I imply, in some methods it is grown and in some methods not,” defined Logano when requested about producer affect. “However I feel the Subsequent Gen automobile itself has type of made the producer matter much more as a result of there’s solely sure issues that we are able to management, proper? The automobile is the automobile. The physique turns into essential. That is one factor that the OEM can management. The engine. There’s your different one, proper? These are two massive rushing ops.

“The groups, they’ve the power to tune and make a automobile higher than others. There’s occasions the place we have seen it, proper, what occurred earlier this 12 months, the Fords have been off, all of them. You inform me all of the groups have been off? No. The OEM issues. We have been capable of flip that round all collectively, which is nice.”

Are the penalties sufficient?

The penalties issued by NASCAR this week didn’t issue within the automobile makes, specializing in the three groups accused of race manipulation. Nevertheless, stated penalties have been substantial, totaling $600,00 in fines, 9 suspensions, and the lack of 50 driver/proprietor factors between every group. However was it sufficient?

“I do not know,” admitted Logano. “I do know that NASCAR needed to do one thing simply because in the event you let that go, it’s going to simply hold turning into extra excessive each time. They put their foot down. Is it sufficient? Properly, we’ll see this week. In the event that they do it once more, then you understand the penalty wasn’t sufficiently big.”

Trackhouse tried to attraction the penalties this week, however misplaced. Each RCR and 23XI withdrew their very own appeals. Now onto Phoenix the place every producer has at the least one automobile within the Championship 4 battle. With all 4 title combatants coming into the finale on equal floor, there’ll absolutely be temptation to meddle once more if the chance arises. For the sake of the game and for the explanations already acknowledged by Logano, hopefully they don’t.

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