{"id":22707,"date":"2013-07-10T14:29:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T19:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=22707"},"modified":"2013-07-10T14:29:11","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T19:29:11","slug":"nascar-wont-penalize-cars-insp-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=22707","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Won&#8217;t Penalize Cars, Insp. Failed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP Jul 10, 2013) &#8211; NASCAR has declined to penalize the 31 cars that failed inspection in the Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series at Daytona.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NASCAR confiscated the teams&#8217; roof flaps, which are designed to keep cars on the ground during spins and wrecks at high speeds, for further inspection.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thirty-one cars, including 16 in the Sprint Cup Series, failed inspection before Thursday&#8217;s practices at Daytona International Speedway.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NASCAR vice president of competition Robin Pemberton says the &#8220;functionality and safety aspects of the roof flaps were not compromised and the on track competition would not be impacted.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The roof-flap spacers had been illegally machined down to reduce weight.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NASCAR inspectors made those Cup teams install new, unaltered roof flaps before drivers were allowed on the track for the first of two practices.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Inspectors then went to the Nationwide garage and found similar issues on 15 cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP Jul 10, 2013) &#8211; NASCAR has declined to penalize the 31 cars that failed inspection in the Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series at Daytona. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NASCAR confiscated the teams&#8217; roof flaps, which are designed to keep cars on the ground during spins and wrecks at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22709,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22707\/revisions\/22709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}