Ricky Stenhouse Jr. took the checkered flag in a photograph end at Talladega on Sunday, however one thing stood out about his No. 47 Chevrolet after the race.
Stenhouse had a major sized gap on the motive force facet of his automobile stemming from the document 28-car accident with 5 laps remaining within the race. The opening broken the mandated protecting foam, which have to be changed in accordance with the NASCAR Rule Ebook. Clearly, NASCAR didn’t power Stenhouse all the way down to pit highway for repairs and he went onto win the race by .006 seconds.
Denny Hamlin calls out NASCAR in Ricky Stenhouse Jr. controversy
Talking on Monday’s “Actions Detrimental” podcast, Denny Hamlin took NASCAR to activity for not upholding its personal guidelines and forcing Stenhouse to come back down pit highway.
“So, your race winner had an enormous gap in his left facet door,” Hamlin stated. “He had some door foam lacking, he had a gap in his door. That is the place I believe frequent sense would come into play, nonetheless, you do have guidelines. Do I believe that the 47 ought to have come down and put Bear Bond over his door? Sure, by the letter of the legislation. That’s why you make guidelines, so you will have protocols, and also you implement these guidelines. However they didn’t, and after I hear Elton Sawyer speaking after the race that it was information to him that the 47 had a gap in his door, I’m not likely certain what we’re doing.
“It simply looks as if I hear consistently from NASCAR lots of ridiculous reasoning behind calls that they make saying, ‘We didn’t know, we didn’t have a very good angle, we are able to’t decide.’ Like, you will have the assets to do it, why aren’t you? Finally it’s a must to maintain your sanctioning physique accountable to say, ‘You gotta do higher.’ Do I believe there’s a security downside with the 47 from what I noticed? I don’t… The difficulty is the foundations. They didn’t observe the foundations.”
Elton Sawyer addresses gap in Ricky Stenhouse Jr.’s automobile at Talladega
As listed in Part 3.3.3.7 of the Cup Sequence Rule Ebook:
A. Power absorbing (EA) foam blocks have to be put in on the skin floor of the left and proper facet door.
B. Door foam that has been broken or crushed have to be changed. Efficient Could 4, 2022, door foam that’s lacking pores and skin (together with all machined foams) have to be changed.
Elton Sawyer, NASCAR senior vp of competitors, fielded questions in regards to the gap in Stenhouse’s automobile after the race. Luckily for Stenhouse and his group, Sawyer had no clue.
“That’s information to me, the primary I’ve heard of it,” Sawyer stated. “I can’t touch upon that as a result of I don’t know.”
