No Small Task

I do want to touch on some news this week.

I made a video about this already, but Zane Smith was fined $50,000 for ramming into the back of Carson Hosovar after the Phoenix race.

Now, you know, again, a lot of people were asking, well, what is the difference here between the Michael McDowell, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. incident not getting fined and this incident obviously resulting in a fine? NASCAR, Mike Ford, I talked to him and then he also said on Holler Talk the same thing that Really, a lot of this decision was based off of that they had already had a conversation with these guys.

Zane Smith intentionally wrecked Carson Josefara at Chicagoland.

They met with them at Atlanta, and they told them, you know, if you can't figure it out, we will help you figure it out.

Um, and unfortunately it seemed like from NASCAR's view, they, they couldn't figure it out.

However, there, there is also an element of like Zane Smith was going pretty fast here.

Um, I think Denny said on actions detrimental, you know, 120 miles an hour or more, uh, when he hit the back of host of our, and obviously, you know, the back of these next gen cars don't, don't take hits kindly.

So that was probably a factor, but it seems the majority factor was, uh, that they had already met with them in the hall and already warned them.

But, I wanted to expand on that because NASCAR used to do probation.

If you've been a fan in the last 12 years, you may not have heard about this, but it used to be a very, very common thing that would happen where you would say, Oh, okay.

Somebody got into a fight or somebody got into an incident on track.

Somebody wrecked somebody and NASCAR would go, all right, that guy's now on probation, NASCAR probation for the rest of the year, or they'd say for six weeks of probation.

And it was like a warning that like, and sometimes it would, it would be a fine and probation or like, Something points penalty and probation, but sometimes it was just probation by itself.

But this would be like the warning.

OK, well, if you if you do it again, if you get into trouble during this time period, then we will act further.

But they stopped using that at some point.

It was never like an announcement.

It was never like, hey, we're done with probation.

you know, that's not going to be a thing anymore.

Um, actually Seth Eggert told me he checked the last time they put a driver on probation was 2013.

But I think especially with this, um, regime of NASCAR, you know, Brad Moran, Elton Sawyer doing the competition.

Now these, the holler chats have sort of become a, uh, substitute for that.

So, you know, when you, when you have that situation, um, you know, and, and they tell you something, they talk to you, you know, that Mike Ford on holler talk is saying, that's not just for a public appearance thing.

Like when we call you in, it's, that's where we're, we're drawing the line there.

I do want to touch on some news this week.

I made a video about this already, but Zane Smith was fined $50,000 for ramming into the back of Carson Hosovar after the Phoenix race.

Now, you know, again, a lot of people were asking, well, what is the difference here between the Michael McDowell, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. incident not getting fined and this incident obviously resulting in a fine? NASCAR, Mike Ford, I talked to him and then he also said on Holler Talk the same thing that Really, a lot of this decision was based off of that they had already had a conversation with these guys.

Zane Smith intentionally wrecked Carson Josefara at Chicagoland.

They met with them at Atlanta, and they told them, you know, if you can't figure it out, we will help you figure it out.

Um, and unfortunately it seemed like from NASCAR's view, they, they couldn't figure it out.

However, there, there is also an element of like Zane Smith was going pretty fast here.

Um, I think Denny said on actions detrimental, you know, 120 miles an hour or more, uh, when he hit the back of host of our, and obviously, you know, the back of these next gen cars don't, don't take hits kindly.

So that was probably a factor, but it seems the majority factor was, uh, that they had already met with them in the hall and already warned them.

But, I wanted to expand on that because NASCAR used to do probation.

If you've been a fan in the last 12 years, you may not have heard about this, but it used to be a very, very common thing that would happen where you would say, Oh, okay.

Somebody got into a fight or somebody got into an incident on track.

Somebody wrecked somebody and NASCAR would go, all right, that guy's now on probation, NASCAR probation for the rest of the year, or they'd say for six weeks of probation.

And it was like a warning that like, and sometimes it would, it would be a fine and probation or like, Something points penalty and probation, but sometimes it was just probation by itself.

But this would be like the warning.

OK, well, if you if you do it again, if you get into trouble during this time period, then we will act further.

But they stopped using that at some point.

It was never like an announcement.

It was never like, hey, we're done with probation.

you know, that's not going to be a thing anymore.

Um, actually Seth Eggert told me he checked the last time they put a driver on probation was 2013.

But I think especially with this, um, regime of NASCAR, you know, Brad Moran, Elton Sawyer doing the competition.

Now these, the holler chats have sort of become a, uh, substitute for that.

So, you know, when you, when you have that situation, um, you know, and, and they tell you something, they talk to you, you know, that Mike Ford on holler talk is saying, that's not just for a public appearance thing.

Like when we call you in, it's, that's where we're, we're drawing the line there.