If you've watched any ESPN at all over the last several weeks, you've seen heavy promotion of Austin Dillon in a Dale Earnhardt Sr-esque #3 car in their Nationwide Series commercials.
Well, last week, he won the race in Kentucky. He also failed inspection there too, costing him, I believe, six points.
He's done it again! DISQUALIFIED from the pole position qualifying (which he would've otherwise won) and ordered to start in the back of the field for this week's race in Daytona for an open cooling hose in the cockpit to boost aerodynamics, according to ESPN.
So why is he being allowed to run at all? Well, with Danica not doing as well as a lot of sponsors and TV-hypesters might've wanted, ESPN has gone with the Dale Sr.-esque car angle, I guess.
It's clear somebody (at least on Dillon's crew) is trying to fix the races here. Once is an anomaly, two consecutive starts talk of a pattern. And, before the penalty, he was the points leader after Kentucky.
Anybody want to start looking at inspection papers for all the other Nationwide races as well?
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