Biffle Bites DEI.......
An illegal carburetor, Petty Enterprises shame, and the Pepsi 400 from Daytona Beach, Florida.
Illegal Carburetor?..........
Not hardly, it was rather apparent that NASCAR's move to confiscate the carburetor off of Michael Waltrip's No. 15 DEI Chevy was just a move to allow the sanctioning body to try to save face. Not to worry, most of us can easily see through their charade, making it look even worse for them.
Another report that appeared on the AP wire stated that the holes in the carburetor were "not legal." How can a hole be not legal? The only thing I can think of is that the holes in the four barrel carburetor were too large, possibly allowing too much air or fuel to reach the restrictor plate beneath it causing more elements to pass through the plate than what is normal. The AP article by Jenna Fryer stated that NASCAR would probably levy a fine against DEI nest week for the infraction.
If there was something found to be amiss during inspection of the carburetor and it was then confiscated, that would have been another matter. To just up and take it without finding a problem with it was just plain asinine on NASCAR's part, which is also nothing new. It's no secret that DEI has dominated restrictor plate racing and that Michael Waltrip has won his share of the booty from it, including this season's opener at Daytona. There has been all kinds of speculation and accusations of cheating leveled at the DEI organization over the past couple of seasons because of their domination on tracks where drivers don't have an edge. Allegations have also been leveled at NASCAR by several crew chiefs and mechanics in the garage area because of the way the sanctioning body distributes the restrictor plates to the teams. NASCAR hands them out to the teams specifically, and has stated that all plates are the same. I don't believe them, and neither do half of the people in the garage area that aren't winning. If all of the plates are exactly the same, why then aren't they chosen at random by each team from a common stack of restrictor plates? This is what the teams have been asking for now over the past several seasons, but NASCAR will not allow the plates to be distributed randomly, leading to the speculation that NASCAR is handing out different sized plates to different teams, controlling the competition and setting up the field for the winner of their choice.
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