Full Throttle

Let’s put to bed the lastest NASCAR “cheating scandal,” latest because another will soon follow.

Did anyone notice an oddity in the penalties handed out to the Hendricks teams?

Both Knaus and Letarte as crew chiefs for the #24 & #48 took what apparently is NASCAR’s “New Black,” (or should that be the New “Lack of Gray”) a 100 G’s fine, and 6 weeks on the bench. Many have said, Ho-humm, they still get to work in the shop and that’s very true.

But something’s been missed in that scenario. Both Knaus and Letarte have been credited with being the evil geniuses behind their respective teams and that is also true. But their primary job, and what they get paid big bucks for, is to call the shots on Sunday.

Their replacements for the next 6 weeks on top of the war wagons are Jeff Meendering for Gordon, and Ron Malec as Johnson