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Joe Gibbs Nationwide Series Teams…..
Published 8/17/2008 by Richard Ginn at The Pit Stop
... are going to wind up getting a penalty for trying to manipulate the throttle so the teams cars would not wind up getting a proper horsepower reading in a dyno test. ...

Rusty Reckons: Say It Ain't So, Joe
Published 8/17/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Hugging Harold Reynolds) at Hugging Harold Reynolds
JGR Facing Nationwide Penalties Gibbs teams face penalties for manipulating Nationwide Dyno Old Rusty's got nothing but respect for Joe Gibbs. One of the most outstanding fellows in the sport, his faith (respectfully so) dictates many of his business decisions. For instance, he still refuses to consider alcohol sponsors for any of his teams. However, the news coming out of Michigan makes me start to think what in the devil went wrong. JGR's embrace of the sport's new bad boy was puzzling, but no one suspected Gibbs wasn't playing ...

Cheating is a Team Sport
Published 8/18/2008 by T.C. at The Nascar Insiders
... Here we go again.  For those of you that don’t know, after the Nationwide Series race at Michigan on Saturday, the Joe Gibbs Racing Nationwide Series teams were discovered to have put magnetsunder the accelerators so NASCAR inspectors wouldn’t be able to get an accurate read on horsepower on the chassis dyno.  If you’ll remember a few weeks back, NASCAR changed the rules in the Nationwide Series for the Toyota teams to hopefully level the playing field in terms of horsepower.  This was obviously an action taken by a team to hide any more horsepower gains ...

Tony Stewart, Joey Lagano, Joe Gibbs Racing Caught Cheating in NASCAR
Published 8/19/2008 at FanIQ Blog
... If JGR does receive a penalty this week, it should not be a light one.  They knowingly interfered with the inspection process, and no NASCAR fan, JGR supporter or not, should complain about how JGR was treated unfairly.  When you mess with the inspection and blatantly violate the rule that says "do what we tell you to do because we're going to put some cars on the chassis dyno for further random testing," you deserve whatever penalty is handed down to you. SceneDaily.Com [NASCAR]