John Darby Quotations

We're aware of Chad's past penalties. Is it a topic of conversation as we meet about the penalty? Yeah, briefly, but it's a lot easier for us to address each penalty situation on its own, with its own merits, but along with that, it's not that much different in the world we live in: A first-time offense for somebody is a lot of the times treated a little softer than somebody that has a history.

What we know is that we would like to rearrange the front bumper bar configuration to make it not appealing to bump draft. At the same time, we have to maintain the integrity of the front end of the race cars for crash purposes. There's a lot of energy absorption in the front bumpers that we run on the cars here.

We hold a lot of responsibility for policing the sport, but, at the same time, we have to give the competitors the benefit of the doubt if we can, so that's why that process is repeated. Honestly, another reason it's repeated is so we're sure of what we're seeing, not something goofy, not a mistake.

Simply put, we prefer that shock absorbers are used for shock absorbers ... not to be a spring assist or a jack or anything else.

One-size-fits-all is fairly accurate. Obviously, teams will still have a half a dozen to 10 or a dozen cars still on board. The difference is, the cars will be so similar that if they do get behind the eight-ball, they'll be able to pull another one out of inventory and keep going.

I don't consider any 2-year-old really having a clear sense of what they had in their possession.

I don't care who it is, the point leader or the guy running 43rd, if there is a similar situation to what we had in Loudon, there is nobody who can hide from the penalties we'll have coming.

Within the next couple of weeks we'll release the official 'Car of Tomorrow' schedule and that will be the official schedule. We'll say, 'Here it is, we're not turning back.' -- The important thing is to get that official schedule out, because when it goes out it's printed and everybody says, 'here's the deal,' and then it's time to get going.

It can enhance the excitement of the race. As it transfers to stock cars, and particularly applies to Daytona and Talladega, with the cars running closer together, a bump draft at the right time in the right place is not the worst thing in the world. But it has been turning bump drafting into slam drafting, because the hits just keep getting harder and harder and harder.

I think with the integrated systems the consumer is more relaxed now that they don't have to make a binding decision. And the knowledge that these systems are designed to work together is a big plus.

I watch a lot of football games and I see a lot of face masks getting grabbed. I know you're not supposed to do that. ...I don't believe we have a unique situation. But you compound a team of 20 people and add a machine that has over 5,000 moving parts, there's a lot more there to play with. ...It's a bigger candy jar to reach in, there's more than one jelly bean in the jar.

Our guys are changed with, in policing the sport, expecting that they have to take the personalities out of it. They can't look at who's driving the car, or who the crew chief on the car is. It's more of, this is a car and all 43 of them are checked the same.

Without clear-cut evidence in the parts and pieces and the thing we do in inspection that would prove the cars to be outside the rulebook, we don't have the ability to react to that.

We've made a ton of progress with it over the winter and it's down to small changes now. We're doing a lot of work with the wing right now to test it out and see how it's going to work. It has been real positive. We will keep pressing on and in '07 it will race.

We are pleased that this phase of a complex, protracted, and emotionally charged investigation has been completed with the subject's arrest.

There could be some very subjective calls made. Hopefully, we don't have to make a call.

What's happening right now is that ski manufacturers are attempting to provide a one-ski-does-it-all scenario.

Every bump draft will not create a penalty. Every time a car touches another car will not create a penalty. Unless it becomes very apparent to us that there is an unnecessary hit, specifically in one of the no zones, we will not issue a penalty.

Every bump draft will not create a penalty.

The tire-leasing is not specifically designed to eliminate testing. It has the huge purpose of eliminating tire testing. I'm not talking about running a race track; I'm talking about taking 50 tires to an independent lab and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars testing. It's definitely designed to eliminate that. And quite frankly, we're only three weeks into that, but it's working pretty good.

The spoiler itself was fabricated to circumvent the required angle that the spoiler is supposed to be raced at,

The NASCAR officials are there to react if something does happen,

There's a small part of it that's judgment calls, ... but I think in today's world, when penalties are issued, there's no judgment about it. It's black-and-white.

As we go forward in attempting to control bump drafting in those areas, there's going to be some very subjective calls being made. That's the reason we'd like to get this under way as quickly as possible. Hopefully we don't have to make a call. But if we do make a call in the twins, it wouldn't be quite as painful as having to make it in the Daytona 500.

For $600-$700 you're going to get top-level integrated ski-binding system. Expect to pay $400 to $600 for boots, depending on how much performance you want.

Everybody passed inspection and all of the shocks, in regard to parts and pieces, were completely legal. But the build of the shocks that the teams chose to use is a direction that we're not real fond of.

However, the shock build -- that is the assembly of the shock and what the shock is intended to do with that build -- it's not within the spirit and the intent of what our shock absorber rules surround. Simply put, we prefer that shock absorbers are used for shock absorbers, which is a device which controls the frequency of a spring, not to be a spring assist or a jack or anything else.

The cars passed postrace inspection, ... The shock absorbers themselves, after being tested and disassembled and everything, all of the parts and pieces were well within the confines of the rule book. However, the shock build -- the assembly of the parts and what the shock it intended to do -- it's not within the spirit and the intent of what our shock absorber rules surround.