Knaus appeal to be heard Tuesday:

[DeeDee]

Knaus appeal to be heard Tuesday:Team owner Rick Hendrick and #48 crew chief Chad Knaus will get to explain next Tuesday why they think NASCAR erred in penalizing Hendrick Motorsports for the C-posts on the Daytona 500 car of Jimmie Johnson. NASCAR confirmed that the appeal will be heard Tuesday morning at its Research & Development Center in Concord, N.C. A three-member panel will determine whether NASCAR officials were justified in suspending Knaus and car chief Ron Malec for six weeks as well as penalizing five-time Cup champion Johnson 25 points and fining Knaus $100,000. Both Hendrick and Knaus have said they believe templates should have been put on the car before it was confiscated Feb. 17 at Daytona International Speedway. While teams often aren't successful on appeal, Hendrick has won one appeal of a suspension of Knaus in 2005. Knaus has been suspended three other times in his career.(Sporting News)(2-8-2012)

I say throw the book at him

[TeamBlueOval]

I agree ... no way the penalty should be reduced. He gets caught cheating far too often for them to go light with him again. It's time to really teach him a lesson, clearly the previous penalties have taught him nothing.

There are a number of articles being posted by journalists, and it was even discussed on Sirius yesterday, about Chad and his reputation as a cheater. Said it may hurt his chances to get into the Hall of Fame because of his bad reputation.

[speedfan]

The only thing he has to give him hope is that they didn't even test the templates with the car. They just looked at it and said we don't like it.

[TeamBlueOval]

IMO, that just means the infraction was SOOO obvious that they didn't need the template.

[speedfan]

IMO, that just means the infraction was SOOO obvious that they didn't need the template.

I think they should have still at least tested it with the template. I mean not that I am trying to defend HMS, but supposively that was the same car that was run in RP races last year and I don't think anything changed on that part of the car, I know the spoiler changed some but not the cpost