NASCAR CEO Brian France owes Carl Long an apology, and a full pardon

Mike Mulhern you are the best! Finally someone stepped and told it like it is and should be. Thank you!!! I am officially done with supporting the mental midgets that are ruining a once great sport. I urge others to petition and then boycott NASCAR until someone in charge wakes up and smells the burnt motor oil. Keep up the good work Mike.

NA$CAR hasn't forgotten the way this sport was built by the little guys, they never understood they were there anyway.

This deal with Carl Long is so far from any point proving, any bit of reality, that only NA$CAR could pull it off and sleep at night. This is their normal mode of operation, has been from the beginning. I do go back a ways, I remember Wendell Scott having a win taken away until the crowd left, I remember Bill Elliott being told not to stink up the show or he wouldn't be allowed to play, I remember a dead wrong call against Tommy Ellis that stood just as a reminder of who was ruling the roost.

The green back dollar is the only loyalty that Daytona has. This deal with Carl and his crew chief is dead assed wrong in every shape or form.

The France in charge only cares about the everloving dollar. He and "the hanging gang" don't deal with concern for others, just again the dollar.

Brian France. His dad and granddad would be ashamed.

Brian France and NASCAR are as consistent as a debris caution when a Hendrick car needs a lucky dog or is about to go a lap down. First it was the Chase nonsense which IMO has killed the sport to heartless decisions such as this.

I am completely fed up with NASCAR. Thousands upon thousands of dollars spent buying sponsors' products to help support the sport not to mention the hours reading, listening and watching. This is what the sport has come to. No mega money, no voice. Stay at home is the message being sent to guys like Carl Long.

The message being sent to me the fan is take your dollar elsewhere. Brian France and Mike Helton, I get the message loud and clear.

Arrogance.
Arrogance is a great sedative.
Arrogance in believing everything you do is the best without question allows you to sleep well at night.
B.F. has a B.S. degree in arrogance.
Unfortunately, it is his ball and if you want to play, he's the rules maker.

Thank you for exposing the NASCAR BULLIES for what they are, Psychopathic Egomaniacs!!! And they wonder WHY... former fans are leaving in droves... in disgust! Daaaah... Fairness IS... An American Core Value!

Well you see how much effect you and other journalists have on BossNascar. They just keep on truckin. In fact they likely sleep very well at night thank you. These are bullies and arrogant butts that run this thing now. Junior Johnson cheated on his headlight cover more than what Carl Long was caught for. And they let that go on for years. No conspiracy theorist here Mike, you and I and a whole bunch of others know how corrupt this thing used to be. Bill Gazaway was old school rough. I know those were the old days, but these guys today are ethical lite in many ways, never letting the right hand see what the left hand is doing or to whom it's doing it to. At least Robby Gordon had enough depth to do a PR gig that overturned one of last year's idiotic rulings. But Carl Long? As you say just a little guy that is easy to step on. It goes to show you this bunch is nothing but hypocrites. At least Carl Long didn't endanger a life...He didn't even gain a spot. Hey that's like going after WMDs. We shore do need to be afraid em tearoists!

An absolute double-standard by NASCAR. They can ruin Carl Long over an illegal engine, but Michael Waltrip, Hendrick Motorsports, Gibbs, that whole big-team bunch - the fines they get amount to one afternoon's lunch money for them; $60,000 is chump change for them.

When Hendrick Motorsports gets hammered with a multi-million-dollar monetary fine and a four-digit points penalty for each car (it's a multicar team and they basically operate as One Team) over a cheating incident like what Chad Knaus pulled at Daytona a few years back is when NASCAR shows it has real credibility with regard to policing cheating.

i think they don't want the small independents like long and mayfield so their intent was to squeeze them out of business.thanks nascar you gave me my sunday afternoons back.

This was aimed directly at Carl Long from the start. Everyone involved would have suspected an engine with that much history, use, would surely be "off" a little.

The nascar techs, all involved would know this even before measurements.

One has to wonder what they have against Carl Long? The only reasonable answer I can come up with, is, they must feel the need to rid themselves of the "start and park" guys (an issue that's been talked about lately) and Carl was the first.

Everyone knows this was NOT an intentional violation. I'd say that engine was EXACTLY to spec...the day it was built...many miles ago...

You are so right saying "shame on nascar".

Big Alice

Sorry, but to set the fine based on Carl's finances would be wrong. I like Carl, but if this was Kyle Busch or Jimmy Johnson would everyone be up in arms? NO because they would be called cheaters and they can also afford to pay the fine. We complain about double standards and yet that is what you seem to want...

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The reason NASCAR is losing its fans is plain and simply. I for one find it close to a true horror story. All too familiar.

I have followed the sport for a long time like many. As well, I attend 2 to 3 events per year. If you do not think Nascar and there officals are not "Arrogant", get a garage pass and observe for yourself. Granted you are on the inside and close up to the sport, but they run the garage like a prison.
I became close friends to a past Cup driver and he helped me understand who was the boss. You do not talk bad about Nascar if you want to race. If you got him to the side, there were crazy of some of the storiss you would hear.
My wife and I were walking thru the garage area and she had taken off her sweater because it was getting warm, without thinking. Her blouse did not have sleeves. HOLY MOLLY, a offical that was leaning on a race car waiting to get thru tech grabbed her by the arm and told her to put it back on right now or he was going to throw her out of the garage area. Had I not been given a pass by a driver, that offical would be getting out of the hospital about now.
In other words, we were "little people" and he knew that. We both knew the rules, but did the punishment (arrogant, senseless approach) fit the crime?
Carl, they are consistent. If you aren't a player, they can live without you.

I have been a HUGE fan of NASCAR since I was a child. Grew up with the Mighty Modifieds at Islip and Freeport. I have seen NASCAR slowly cold shoulder its local series over the years. They have seen fit to take care of their best and brightest. Just look at the "top 35" rule. Used to be with the local series everyone was "go or go home". You had to qualify EVERY week. There was no "Lucky Dog". You raced your way back to the lead lap. NASCAR has no consistancy in its indiscriminate handing out of penaltys. The largest fine and penalty in NASCAR history is handed out to probably the smallest team in the CUP series, for what was an insignificant event at a NON POINTS race7. This is the icing on the cake for me. Think I am going to watch Formula1. Yes, they may be as messed up as NASCAR in handing out penalties for infractions, however, they screw everyone EQUALLY. Thomas C Danisevich. Bartlett, TN.