Sirius XM’s Tony Stewart In Trouble
NASCAR fans are well aware that the races can be heard on Sirius and satellite radio fans are well aware that Tony Stewart can be heard on his regular Sirius show on NASCAR channel 128.
Today, Tony Stewart finds himself in hot water. After the latest race, magnets were discovered under the gas pedal of his #20 car, as well as the #18 car driven by Joey Logano. To be fair to both drivers, it is not clear whether they were aware of the situation that caused their cars to read differently on the dyno than when racing on the track.
Both drivers race for Joe Gibbs Racing, and run cars from Toyota. Toyota cars have won 15 of 25 races this season in Nationwide, and all but one of those wins came from a Toyota car fielded by the Joe Gibbs team.
As a result of what appeared to be an advantage for Toyota, NASCAR took action a month ago by ordering the Toyota Nationwide teams to use a smaller spacer which would cut about 15 horsepower in their motors. It has been reported that the incident Saturday was apparently an effort to keep the current numbers from looking too strong in the latest test.
Ironically, Tony Stewart has a show that airs on Monday, August 18th. Whether he will discuss the issue is unknown, but there is an audio clip on Sirius that has Tony talking about Risk vs. Reward with only 4 races remaining. Of course Tony was not talking about cheating in the discussion, but one can certainly say now that the risk in cheating will have a stiff penalty for the #20 and #18 teams.
For NASCAR fans, channel 128 on Sirius is a must on Monday
[ via AP ]
Position – Long SIRI
The writer leaves out this was in the Nationwide race, so any penalties will not effect the chase. Also from what i’ve read the magnets were not in the cars during the race, rather after the effect when the cars went to dyno.
First off this article is misleading. Tony isn’t in trouble. They never said the drivers did it. Why would Tony put a magnet in his car after the race. This was found after POST INSPECTION and the drivers weren’t anywhere around.
JGR is not known to cheat, however, they sure did this time. They need the book thrown at them and I believe JGR will fire the ones that did this, but for your article to imply that Tony Stewart is in trouble is just a bad case of reporting.
Get your facts straight.
The teams are identified by their respective drivers. The article states, “To be fair to both drivers, it is not clear whether they were aware of the situation that caused their cars to read differently on the dyno than when racing on the track.”
Tony being in trouble is simply by association. No matter what, this will come back on him even if he was totally unaware of the situation.
Can someone give me a quick explaination why you would want to put a magnet under the gas pedal. I’m an ex pro-srock drag racer so should be able to follow the technicals of it.
thanks in advance
The magnets would limit how far down the gas pedal could be pressed. Thus making the ability of the car on the track not match the ability of the car in testing.
As I said in the article, we do not know if the drivers even knew the magnets were being added.
Why magnets? probably just for ease of installation and removal as well as the fact that there would be no bolts showing.
In my opinion it was not about magnetism, but rather limiting how far down the pedal could be depressed.