
| Posted: Friday September 22, 2006 9:57AM; Updated: Friday September 22, 2006 9:57AM A lawsuit filed by a former Richard Childress Racing employee includes specific allegations that engines the team used during 2006 Speedweeks at Daytona were designed to defeat NASCAR rules. The team denies the allegations. Anthony Corrente, who lost his job as assistant manager for engine research and development for RCR this year, said he inspected an engine from Harvick's No. 29 Chevrolet after the Budweiser Shootout and found it had been altered to allow more air to enter, which would be contrary to the purpose of carburetor restrictor plates used at Daytona. This is not the first time Jack Roush and Red Sox owner John Henry have talked about doing business, and both sides said that no deal is imminent. Henry is a co-founder of iRacing.com Motorsports Simulations, a company developing what it hopes will be the next generation in computer-simulated racing games. For Jack Roush, such a deal could help him get within NASCAR's limit of four teams for one owner while still getting value out of the investment he's made to build his operation to its current level of five teams. Six drivers completed a two-day test for Goodyear on Wednesday and predicted that racing will be just as crazy as in the past, if not more so, in the Oct. 8 UAW-Ford 500 on the repaved high-banked Talladega Superspeedway. Talladega Superspeedway has been repaved, isn't it time for International Speedway Corp. to repave a Daytona International Speedway surface that has been maligned for years as a little too bumpy? No way, says Ryan Newman. Jeff Gordon will be driving a new chassis this weekend. "This car has been ready for months. We were just saving it for the Chase," crew chief Steve Letarte said. "It's a 'sister' to the car we won with at Chicago with a similar aero package ? a package that has been successful for us this year. NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Terry Bradshaw is getting out of NASCAR. He announced Thursday that he will not renew his association with the FitzBradshaw Racing Busch series program next year. NASCAR has named Gary L. Gardner, a veteran Supervisory Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as its new director of security. Gardner will oversee all aspects of NASCAR's corporate and event security. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||