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Parting is not sweet sorrow.   It is the only thing left that I can do.

Insanity is explained as doing the same thing and expecting different results.   In such a way, my relationship with stock car racing that dates back to the late 1960's when my folks took me to see David Pearson and Richard Petty racing has found an end.

Not of necessity is my parting.

It is to keep me sane.

You see, I cannot watch a sport that is rigged and that has so many indicators that the sport is run to protect the asses of some teams and at the expense of true competition.

Up until the mid-2000's, NASCAR was a sport that had blemishes, but you never sensed that it was run to foster institutionalized cheating by some big teams while punishing other teams far more harshly.   It has become apparent that in the 10 years since that point, that this sport is so rancid and so filled with dirty dealing that it no longer is a sport of chance.   It is rigged.

I offer the following cases - taken by themselves they prove nothing, but taken together it shows a pattern of systemic unethical conduct by the sanctioning body to reward certain owners.

Hendrick Motorsports

In every sport you have the teams that win a lot and stay consistent winners.   Sometimes you have a feel that there is impropriety going on, but this is more about rumors than real happenings.   In NASCAR you have Hendrick Motor Sports - the largest and most established franchise in the sport that is the most well funded acquiring superior talent.    This team should win and by all accounts, it has one superior results team, that of Jimmy Johnson and his 48 team and the rest of his stable mates are hit and miss.   They win, but not like the 48 team does now.   At one time the 24 team was the hottest thing since a fresh dog stool, but he faded into oblivion as he aged.   This is the team of Jeff Gordon - a serial punk who wrecks drivers to advance his position and to win races.   I'm not sure if he was cheating - he wasn't penalized much for it - but he was a two-faced bitch who complained when he was raced like he races others.   He bitch slapped several racers when he couldn't handle being raced as he does, but my beef isn't with his team per se.

His teammate, Jimmy Johnson and his insidious crew chief, Chad Knaus, have been caught and penalized for cheating (violating NASCAR's rule book) no less than 13 times.   In the process of these cheats, he has won six NASCAR championships.   This team is the most well-funded of any of the teams and to suggest that they can't build a car that fits into templates or which cannot come to inspection spot on is laughable.   This team has been caught cheating more often than any other modern NASCAR in the last decade, but the driver and the crew chief have never been banned for a season.   As evidenced by their six championships, this team pays little price for cheating.   A team that is so filled with engineers cannot simply be this sloppy with their preparation while teams with lesser quality personnel don't violate rules.   Several times this team has tried to get through inspection with a car that couldn't fit the templates that every car has to meet.   You can call this coincidence - but you don't run an ethical program when you are caught with non-compliant cars 13 times in ten years!

Who is Rick Hendrick, the owner of Hendrick Motor Sports?   

According to the AutoChannel in 1997, "endrick was sentenced to one year of in home detention, three years probation, and a $250,000 fine for his part in the American Honda Motor Company bribery and kickback scandal.

In August, Hendrick confessed to sending $20,000 to a Honda executive. He also pleaded guilty to mail fraud. The crimes could have put Hendrick in prison for five years in addition to his $250,000 fine.
After the sentencing, the 48 year old car owner commented, "I've come to realize that what I did was wrong and I accept responsibility for that. I would rather die than hurt these people the way I have. I've accepted the fact that I may only have a couple of years to live and I am at peace with that because I have been blessed with a wonderful family and friends."

Harold Bender, defense attorney said, "He has been punished by someone of higher authority when he was stricken with this illness." Bender sought at 10 month sentence for Hendrick.

Today's sentencing put to rest a three year battle with the government. Officials claimed Hendrick built his car dealership empire through bribery and scandal. Other car dealers are still pursuing the issue. Hendrick faces over 50 lawsuits from competitors who are accusing him of unfair competition
Originally, Hendrick was charged with bribery, conspiracy, and thirteen counts of money laundering. The conspiracy and money laundering charges were dropped as part of a plea agreement when Hendrick admitted to giving cash to a Honda executive.

Attorney for the United States, Mark Calloway was satisfied with the sentencing. He said, "The sentence called for by the plea agreement tempers justice with mercy. While the crime to which Mr. Hendrick has admitted his guilt is a serious one, in light of his health, the sentence range agreed to seems appropriate."

Hendrick was named with 22 other defendants who have been convicted in the investigation of American Honda.

The scandal started in the 80s as Hondas were in high demand. Dealers could sell the cars for thousands of dollars above the sticker cost. Executives at Honda took advantage of the high demand by soliciting bribes from dealers. Dealers were granted new dealerships and increased shipments of cars. In all, Honda executives accepted of $15 million in bribes and kickbacks, according to the prosecutors.

Hendrick's name appeared on the prosecutor's list three years ago. Hendrick admitted giving hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, BMWs and even houses to Honda executives. Hendrick claims he received nothing in return.

Hendrick was indicted in December 1996, by a federal grand jury in Asheville for bribing Honda Executives."

Hendrick pardoned by Bill Clinton

Crash.net notes,"One of the most successful team owners in the Winston Cup today, Rick Hendrick was officially pardoned of his mail fraud conviction for which he served a one-year house arrest sentence.

The head of Hendrick Motorsports, who have won four Winston Cup titles with Terry Labonte (1996) and Jeff Gordon (1995, 1997, 1998) and totalled 96 victories in their first 16 years of competition, was given the pardon by outgoing US President Bill Clinton as part of American Christmas tradition."

Chevrolet SS debuts in 2013

 

There are times when new models hit the showrooms and are thus approved to race in NASCAR assuming the car is of the size that is needed.    Sometimes a car is approved BEFORE it hits the market and there is a rule that the vehicle must be sold to the public during the sport's calendar year.

 

There is a problem with this qualification to race with the Chevrolet SS.   NASCAR rules have long been interpreted to mean that you can race a car that is being sold at the first of the year of season - so in 2012 you could have a 2013 car approved if it was going to be sold in January 2013 even if it wasn't being sold at the first part of the 2013 model year in the fall of 2012.

 

The Chevrolet SS isn't available at all to any consumer nor was one sold until late October 2013.

 

NASCAR never stopped the Chevrolet SS from being raced nor did it invalidate all winnings and points from any team that raced the vehicle.   The Chevrolet SS was never sold or made available to be sold during the first 26 races of the 2013 that allowed drivers to qualify for the Championship that season.   The NASCAR season ends in November and only when the October sales results were released in November 2013 had ONE Chevrolet SS been sold to the public.   That means for almost 95% of the entire season, Chevrolet was being allowed to run a car that no one could or did buy.   And at no time did NASCAR enforce its own rule.

 

And Rick Hendrick sells Chevrolets and races them!    His driver, Jimmy Johnson, won the championship in 2013!

 

NASCAR exemption for Kyle Busch.

 

Kyle Busch, a smarmy and arrogant jerk of a racer who is reckless and incapable of turning leading a race into actually winning them when it counts, was injured in a wreck early in the season last year.   He missed substantial time and was granted an exemption under NASCAR rules that requires a driver to start ALL races in order to be eligible for the Championship race.   Rather than having to place in the top 12 or to win a race, Busch was granted a waiver to only have to place in the top 30.   Busch never attempted to qualify in 10 of the races due to injuries he sustained in the Daytona 500 last year. 

 

It would seem that having only 15 races left to make up points would be a tall order and would place an undo burden upon Busch, but he managed to win races (a key to the new sham format of NASCAR on how you rank) and he got to rest 10 races while others risked their lives in those weeks.

 

The point here is that he was able to rest while others couldn't - he simply needed to finish in the top 30 while others had to finish in the top 12.   And when he won a race, that immediately elevated him over any non-winning 26 race runner (entire pre-Chase season).   Somehow this driver who one only once in 2014 managed to win five times leading up to the Chase.    The team that he races with has also been caught cheating several times in the series level below NASCAR's top tier.   Same car owner, Joe Gibbs.   And Toyota has never won a Sprint championship until now.  

 

Busch was given preferential treatment and unfair treatment while others had to race.    There is no question when he was cleared he should be able to race, but his injury should have been fairly enforced and should have prohibited him from being eligible to win the Championship - which he did. 

 

Because NASCAR is not enforcing its rules consistently or handling cheating with banning from Championship qualification, I have since mid-season last year stopped watching or buying any NASCAR items.   NASCAR may be run by redneck mafia members without any integrity, but I have integrity -this shit stinks!

Dear America's Youth,

Lie.   Cheat.    And lie about cheating.

But don't tell the truth when asked.

America has become a cesspool of dishonest people who are at the head of their fields.


We know that you now feel like you are the most pressured generation - you have so much to prove that you cheat with regularity in school to get grades so you can get into the college you want and then whine about the costs after you starting paying on your student loan you think shouldn't have to be repaid.    In schools across the country I'd venture to say that those WHO DON'T cheat are now outnumbered by those WHO CHEAT.

But why should you care - grownups around the country are cheating, breaking the law, raising the middle digit to anyone who believes in ethics - and stealing power that isn't theirs or just setting foot in this country because they will be turned into future Democrats.

King Pimple of a Man has become the President who knows no limits to his power - he steals power that was never granted him and because Congress is spineless and afraid of being called racist, he gets away with conning you about not losing your healthcare - switching his positions on gay marriage - actively breaking the law by not enforcing laws to send the dirtbags from the south back to their homeland and now they steal the American experience by which they have no right to have.

Over in NASCAR we have James Mae Johnson, his crew chief Chad Mouse, and the Hendrick Motorsports Mafia which have been complicit in breaking the rules and being caught doing so no less than 14 times during the 7 championships that Johnson has stolen.    NASCAR is complicit - they have not done more than slap Johnson on the wrist and Chad Mouse should have had a lifetime ban from the sport because he leads the team with the most money, most staff, and most resources in the sport - his team should be so in compliance with rules that they would never be in question of breaking the rules - but they lead the teams over the past decade with times being caught cheating - and they've reaped the profits of their dishonesty.

And now we have the New England Patriots - a team that is just as complicit in dishonesty and lack of ethics as Rick Hendrick's racing team.    Deflategate is not the first time we've had the aroma of a fresh cheating dog stool under our shoes and noses.    There is a pattern of unethical conduct that comes with this team - up to this point, we've assumed that Billicheat, the head coach, was principal of all the cheating - but now we see he has a dichotomy of his leadership - a micro-manager of the first order - proved out that his assistants who tried to be head coaches elsewhere have always failed and been fired - goes over every detail of the team and leaves nothing unnoticed.    So now we are supposed to believe that Tom Brady winked to two underlings and cheated with ball pressures without Billicheat noticing.    It is highly improbable that Billicheat did not know about this.   He seems to know the minutiae of the team down to shoe sizes - so it is utterly laughable that he had no idea this was going on - this is the same team that plowed the field in a snowstorm just for them to see the yard lines and to make a kick easier - this is the same team that has already been caught cheating and penalized for it - and there are more occasions where something fishy has gone on.

What has not been said loudly is that the owner of the team, Bob Kraft, has retained a cheater and a miscreant of the rules, so now we have to wonder if the cheating and unprofessional and unethical conduct isn't radiating from the head of the stank fish - Bob Kraft.    It is apparent he condones men who don't play by the rules - Billicheat is still employed after being a serial cheater like NASCAR's Chad Mouse over at Hendrick - so if you retain damaged goods, you become the principal of the cheating - the path of dishonesty in New England now radiates from Kraft - is practiced by Billicheat - and now Tom Brady is involved.

America's youth - you can profit by being dishonest, unethical, unprofessional, and stealing what is not yours because you think it should be yours.

Once again we are confronted with an instance of cheating in professional sports.

Apparently the New England Patriots, a team that is rift with dishonesty and unethical conduct in sports, undertook an action against the National Football League (NFL) rule book and removed air from footballs that were to be used for their Championship game against the Indianapolis Colts this past weekend.    Eleven of twelve footballs that they were to use on offense were found to have been under inflated.    Somehow one football was within specs.   

Of course the sycophants of this team have contrived excuses from the cold weather affecting the balls (but somehow not messing with one of the balls) to the air being removed by intense spiking of the ball by the team drunk, Gronkmothafocka.     It has been said that the Colts also played with these balls but that is not a fact.   Each team had their own balls for offense.    The only time the Colts got to play with the Patriot's ball was when they intercepted it.    The Colts must be ball experts since they only needed to sample one ball instead of two like most of us.

So on the cusp of the Pooper Bowl (the NFL makes it impossible to use the real name), we have a distraction - one that overshadows the game itself, but in all fairness, the NFL is not the only source of rules' violations in professional sports.

I enter into this discussion with exhibit two, the Hendricks Motorsports team of Jimmy Johnson in NASCAR - an American racing series.   Jimmy Johnson drives for one of the biggest teams - the most well funded and staffed organization in all of motorsports.    They have engineers out the ass and have specialists in all departments.    Yet during the seven Championships that Jimmy Johnson has won with Hendricks, his team has been caught and penalized no less than fourteen times for breaking the rules.    Yet, during those years of violations, they've won seven championships!     Penalties have been levied, but they were not enough to prevent the team from winning those championships - ever.    Fines were levied - points stripped here and there, but ultimately, the team that has been penalized the most in the last decade managed to win seven times.    So when you shop at Lowe's just remember you are supporting a team filled with cheaters and dishonest people.   

Need I also mention that Hendrick Motorsports is owned by Rick Hendrick - a convicted felon who rigged prices at his Honda dealership and was caught by Federal Authorities and punished - until then President Bill Clinton, himself an impeached President and disbarred lawyer, managed to make one of his final acts a sweeping pardon of Hendrick's crimes.     So much for following the rules....

Sadly, America is dealing with the biggest rule breaker in its history - King Pimple of a Man (aka Barack Hussein Obama) - a man who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States and who has done nothing of the sort - instead shredding the document when things are too difficult for him to undertake as a real man with a set of testicles bigger than a pin head.     This King has the nerve to think that his two elections trump the 2400 (or more) elections of the People's House of Representatives during his current six year reign of terror.    Most Presidents - being real men - work to negotiate and to compromise in good faith - to show that they are statesman and to work to influence people toward his way of thinking.    But King Pimple is a different kind of man child - he is an arrogant, lying, progressive, neo-communist butt munch who refuses to compromise and expects that his way is the only way and if you disagree, you get mocked at the State of the Union speech as he did last evening.     Instead of using the art of diplomacy and the skill of persuasion, King Pimple uses gunpoint diplomacy - he fires at his enemies - he insults them - he mocks them - and then whines when he can't get his way.    And since he has a pen and a phone, he supplants having real manhood and issues Executive Actions (no longer even bothering with Executive Orders) and steals power delegated to Congress and now he invalidates provisions of laws, reinterprets what gets in his way, suspends parts he doesn't want to enforce, and a myriad of other actions that no other President has even dreamed of doing - but he is always right and he won his two elections - so fock you for winning yours.

How is it we can expect athletes and race car drivers to obey the rules when our President has appointed himself King and Lord and Master and ignores the rules of our country?    Should we expect athletes like the Seattle Seathugs to actually take a piss test using their own piss?    Why should these punks obey the rules when King Pimple thinks he is above it all?    Why should the New England Cheaters play ball following not only the spirit of the rules but the actual rules themselves?     And why should we expect Jimmy Johnson to follow even the basic rules of driving a legal race car when the sanctioning body, NASCAR, allowed the Chevrolet SS to race almost the entire 2013 season without selling ONE to a retail consumer until the last week of October - three weeks before the end of the 2013 season?

Following the rules is for real men.    Apparently our nation is run by faux men without the backbone to cross dress while doing it.

Original UV Investigative Report UPDATE:  Chevrolet Driver Wins Championship I wish someone in the sports media would pursue this story of collusion and potential criminal activity. On July/August of 2012, NASCAR approved the Chevrolet SS for use in NASCAR racing. In every year that NASCAR has approved a vehicle for use, it must actually be sold to consumers to qualify. Through 26 races to qualify for the NASCAR championship, not one Chevrolet SS was sold to any consumer. Not one. In October 2013, precisely ONE Chevrolet SS was sold to a consumer – unknown person. It is unethical and unprofessional for a manufacturer such as Chevrolet to misrepresent and to lie about when its vehicle would be available for sale and since NASCAR bases its rulings on what is eligible to race on what manufacturers represent, there is now a question that should be raised. How can ANY win by a driver of a Chevrolet SS be allowed? Clearly NASCAR does not intend to allow a car to be raced if only one vehicle has been sold – in the 1960′s, you had to sell hundreds and then up to a 1000 to qualify. And since no Chevrolet SS was sold prior to the Chase, how can a Championship winner be determined using an ineligible car? Since his wins were illegitimate (none of the SS’s were sold in 26 races), then how does he qualify for the Chase? How can he win a Championship when at the very minimum, half of the Chase races were already run PRIOR to the first sale of the SS? NASCAR and Chevrolet have a lot of explaining to do since Jimmy Johnson and all of Hendrick Motorsports and all Chevrolet drivers were driving a vehicle that never qualified to be raced – improper equipment gets drivers disqualified – and this is one of the most egregious examples of unethical conduct in sports history! I am sometimes atypical as a gay man - I love watching the NFL (American Football) and NASCAR (American Oval Racing).    And being the rather anal person that I am, I notice things that have patterns.   For instance, I noticed that former NFL Philadelphia Eagles quarterback, Donovan McNabb, telegraphed whether the play that he was going to execute as he went to the line was going to be a pass or a run.    When it was a pass, he moved his head side to side.   He did not do that at any time when a run was called.   I would yell at the tv calling out the play and I was dead on accurate. So when my next favorite sport deployed a new race car this 2013 Season, I took notice.   Something smelled and smelled badly.    Let's revisit why I should suspect something was up. In NASCAR you have some huge teams that field multiple cars and names like Hendrick Motor Sports, Roush Racing, Penske Racing come to mind.   Hendrick Motor Sports is a team that gives off all the aura of a mafia or less than honest collection of players.   I'm basing my observations on what I see and sometimes read and I offer the following observations as to why I don't trust them. First, Rick Hendrick, the owner of the team, has had some shady business dealings in his past.   He is a huge dealer conglomerate selling many new cars in many brands.    But back 20 or so years ago when Honda was just gaining traction in the US, Hendrick was caught by the feds in illegal business actions that negatively impacted consumers - price fixing and other details.    Hendrick was convicted and punished and was a felon.    Evidently Hendrick was also a big Democrat donor (!) and managed to get a pardon during Bill Clinton's furious last days of pardons being issued.    Hendrick now appears clean as the new driven snow and also suffered cancer which he beat.   One of Hendrick's teams is a multiple championship winner - Jimmy Johnson - who drives the 48 Lowes sponsored race car.   To say that Jimmy Johnson is one of my least favorite drivers is an understatement.    During his five plus championships, he and his team have been caught AND penalized by NASCAR for cheating no less than 14 times.    Let's just say the apple of the Hendrick Driver tree don't fall far from the felon Hendrick's own shady dealings.  It should be noted that there are few years that Jimmy Johnson won a championship where his team wasn't caught and penalized cheating.    In the modern era of NASCAR no single team and driver have been penalized and caught cheating more than Jimmy Johnson, Chad Knaus (his crew chief) and Hendrick Motorsports. With the backstory of why I noticed this race team, I also caught wind that NASCAR would be changing its race car that it fields - the car that was raced last year was the so-called GEN FIVE car named because it was the Fifth Iteration of the type of NASCAR approved racecar.   This vehicle had been created to maximize safety for the driver and gained momentum in development after the death of Dale Earnhardt at Daytona in 2001. With the deployment of the GEN 5 car, it became evident that the Hendrick Motorsports team had found the secret to making it fast and Jimmy Johnson won many of his Championships driving the vehicle.    He was more than competitive and it became evident, until last  year, that no one was as good at racing this generation of NASCAR approved model.   Quite simply, Hendrick Motorsports ruled the tracks. The Generation 5 car really isn't a Ford, Chevrolet, or Toyota.  It is a common vehicle that only had different engines for each company and some graphics added to make a car look like a different brand, but ultimately this was a common car with minimal changes. Until 2012, Hendrick Motorsports ruled with this Generation Five vehicle but something happened - the competition started winning and ultimately for the second consecutive year, a Hendrick car did not win the championship and last year it wasn't even a Chevrolet (Impala). From reports that I have read, Hendrick Motorsports was a major proponent of the GEN Six vehicle (pictured above top) and there is some evidence that Hendrick was insistent that NASCAR push forward the debut of the GEN SIX car and that the rationale wasn't to improve competition or overall safety of the drivers, but to give Hendrick an advantage - you see - Hendrick had been one of the principal developers of the vehicle and had an inside edge on its design features. It should be noted that there were "cosmetic" reasons for the deployment of the GEN SIX cars - the GEN FIVE cars did not look like the production vehicles and the GEN SIX car was to address this by allowing some additional differentiation in the front and rear and the greenhouse of the vehicle.   Additional decals that gave fake headlight and tail light treatments were also approved.   The front end clip of the car with the bumper assembly was also slightly different for each brand. It became obvious once the GEN SIX car was released and on the track that Hendrick's role in developing the product did in fact translate into performance on the track - this is insider information that would be unlawful in the stock market, but in NASCAR, apparently this is not only legal, but encouraged. Across the board, the Chevrolet SS, a car that was not available for sale when the GEN SIX version started racing this season ended up recording serious success - Johnson won five times with it, other SS teams had a total of approximately 8 more wins - a total of 13 wins out of 31 races - and the other major player in this GEN SIX development, Joe Gibbs racing, had a total of at least 11 races. It is clear that having your paws on the car during development gave you an advantage on the track! What separates the Toyota effort from the Chevrolet teams is that the Toyota Camry which the GEN SIX version is based is readily available for sale to consumers - the Ford Fusion version of the GEN SIX car also was readily available all season. HOWEVER.......the Chevrolet version that Hendrick developed is still not available for sale to consumers despite 31 races of the 36 week "season" already having been performed.   This means that NASCAR has approved a car that not only was never available for sale for the first 26 races which allowed drivers to qualify for the "playoffs" but already with half of the 10 "playoff races" having been run, the vehicle is still not available for consumer sale.    I know this because of monthly sales charts released by each automaker and the September sales results showed NO CHEVROLET SS sales! So why is this a big deal? NASCAR has long stipulated the availability of a consumer version to be available for that respective racing season.  Sometimes this has allowed a month or two to go by before the consumer version became available for sale, but NEVER has NASCAR allowed an entire qualifying for playoffs race period go by before a car was available for sale to consumers - this means the car you saw on the track never existed!   Furthermore, since half of the playoffs has already transpired, the teams that ran an unlawful car to get into the playoffs are now winning in the playoffs and within at least 3 points of the title lead! Considering the lack of significant penalities to the Hendrick Motorsports team of Jimmy Johnson when they have been caught cheating 14 times over the past few years and the specious past of Hendrick and the non-existant nature of the consumer version of the car and Hendrick's involvement in pushing the car into use this year, one can conclude without much blushing that Hendrick and NASCAR are colluding in a major league cheating scandal that violates several NASCAR rules and intent on even playing field.   If a car's availability to consumers is REQUIRED to qualify the race version, then the entire 2013 NASCAR season is about to become FRAUDULENT!

Original UV Investigative Report I am sometimes atypical as a gay man - I love watching the NFL (American Football) and NASCAR (American Oval Racing).    And being the rather anal person that I am, I notice things that have patterns.   For instance, I noticed that former NFL Philadelphia Eagles quarterback, Donovan McNabb, telegraphed whether the play that he was going to execute as he went to the line was going to be a pass or a run.    When it was a pass, he moved his head side to side.   He did not do that at any time when a run was called.   I would yell at the tv calling out the play and I was dead on accurate. So when my next favorite sport deployed a new race car this 2013 Season, I took notice.   Something smelled and smelled badly.    Let's revisit why I should suspect something was up. In NASCAR you have some huge teams that field multiple cars and names like Hendrick Motor Sports, Roush Racing, Penske Racing come to mind.   Hendrick Motor Sports is a team that gives off all the aura of a mafia or less than honest collection of players.   I'm basing my observations on what I see and sometimes read and I offer the following observations as to why I don't trust them. First, Rick Hendrick, the owner of the team, has had some shady business dealings in his past.   He is a huge dealer conglomerate selling many new cars in many brands.    But back 20 or so years ago when Honda was just gaining traction in the US, Hendrick was caught by the feds in illegal business actions that negatively impacted consumers - price fixing and other details.    Hendrick was convicted and punished and was a felon.    Evidently Hendrick was also a big Democrat donor (!) and managed to get a pardon during Bill Clinton's furious last days of pardons being issued.    Hendrick now appears clean as the new driven snow and also suffered cancer which he beat.   One of Hendrick's teams is a multiple championship winner - Jimmy Johnson - who drives the 48 Lowes sponsored race car.   To say that Jimmy Johnson is one of my least favorite drivers is an understatement.    During his five plus championships, he and his team have been caught AND penalized by NASCAR for cheating no less than 14 times.    Let's just say the apple of the Hendrick Driver tree don't fall far from the felon Hendrick's own shady dealings.  It should be noted that there are few years that Jimmy Johnson won a championship where his team wasn't caught and penalized cheating.    In the modern era of NASCAR no single team and driver have been penalized and caught cheating more than Jimmy Johnson, Chad Knaus (his crew chief) and Hendrick Motorsports. With the backstory of why I noticed this race team, I also caught wind that NASCAR would be changing its race car that it fields - the car that was raced last year was the so-called GEN FIVE car named because it was the Fifth Iteration of the type of NASCAR approved racecar.   This vehicle had been created to maximize safety for the driver and gained momentum in development after the death of Dale Earnhardt at Daytona in 2001. With the deployment of the GEN 5 car, it became evident that the Hendrick Motorsports team had found the secret to making it fast and Jimmy Johnson won many of his Championships driving the vehicle.    He was more than competitive and it became evident, until last  year, that no one was as good at racing this generation of NASCAR approved model.   Quite simply, Hendrick Motorsports ruled the tracks. The Generation 5 car really isn't a Ford, Chevrolet, or Toyota.  It is a common vehicle that only had different engines for each company and some graphics added to make a car look like a different brand, but ultimately this was a common car with minimal changes. Until 2012, Hendrick Motorsports ruled with this Generation Five vehicle but something happened - the competition started winning and ultimately for the second consecutive year, a Hendrick car did not win the championship and last year it wasn't even a Chevrolet (Impala). From reports that I have read, Hendrick Motorsports was a major proponent of the GEN Six vehicle (pictured above top) and there is some evidence that Hendrick was insistent that NASCAR push forward the debut of the GEN SIX car and that the rationale wasn't to improve competition or overall safety of the drivers, but to give Hendrick an advantage - you see - Hendrick had been one of the principal developers of the vehicle and had an inside edge on its design features. It should be noted that there were "cosmetic" reasons for the deployment of the GEN SIX cars - the GEN FIVE cars did not look like the production vehicles and the GEN SIX car was to address this by allowing some additional differentiation in the front and rear and the greenhouse of the vehicle.   Additional decals that gave fake headlight and tail light treatments were also approved.   The front end clip of the car with the bumper assembly was also slightly different for each brand. It became obvious once the GEN SIX car was released and on the track that Hendrick's role in developing the product did in fact translate into performance on the track - this is insider information that would be unlawful in the stock market, but in NASCAR, apparently this is not only legal, but encouraged. Across the board, the Chevrolet SS, a car that was not available for sale when the GEN SIX version started racing this season ended up recording serious success - Johnson won five times with it, other SS teams had a total of approximately 8 more wins - a total of 13 wins out of 31 races - and the other major player in this GEN SIX development, Joe Gibbs racing, had a total of at least 11 races. It is clear that having your paws on the car during development gave you an advantage on the track! What separates the Toyota effort from the Chevrolet teams is that the Toyota Camry which the GEN SIX version is based is readily available for sale to consumers - the Ford Fusion version of the GEN SIX car also was readily available all season. HOWEVER.......the Chevrolet version that Hendrick developed is still not available for sale to consumers despite 31 races of the 36 week "season" already having been performed.   This means that NASCAR has approved a car that not only was never available for sale for the first 26 races which allowed drivers to qualify for the "playoffs" but already with half of the 10 "playoff races" having been run, the vehicle is still not available for consumer sale.    I know this because of monthly sales charts released by each automaker and the September sales results showed NO CHEVROLET SS sales! So why is this a big deal? NASCAR has long stipulated the availability of a consumer version to be available for that respective racing season.  Sometimes this has allowed a month or two to go by before the consumer version became available for sale, but NEVER has NASCAR allowed an entire qualifying for playoffs race period go by before a car was available for sale to consumers - this means the car you saw on the track never existed!   Furthermore, since half of the playoffs has already transpired, the teams that ran an unlawful car to get into the playoffs are now winning in the playoffs and within at least 3 points of the title lead! Considering the lack of significant penalities to the Hendrick Motorsports team of Jimmy Johnson when they have been caught cheating 14 times over the past few years and the specious past of Hendrick and the non-existant nature of the consumer version of the car and Hendrick's involvement in pushing the car into use this year, one can conclude without much blushing that Hendrick and NASCAR are colluding in a major league cheating scandal that violates several NASCAR rules and intent on even playing field.   If a car's availability to consumers is REQUIRED to qualify the race version, then the entire 2013 NASCAR season is about to become FRAUDULENT!