Insider Racing News spoke with NASCAR’s Robin Pemberton and one of the drivers, Kirk Shelmerdine, who didn’t make the top-35 in points last year about the way NASCAR inspected the cars. Some of the nine teams that weren’t fortunate enough to be in the top-35 were complaining that NASCAR was putting them at a disadvantage with the way the inspection process worked. “NASCAR’s not holding anyone up,” says Pemberton, “you get inspected according to where you are in points, so it’s not any different than it has been for the last ten years. Inspection goes by the order of the garage layout with goes by the points,” Shelmerdine said. “That’s the way it is. That’s only on the initial inspection to get into the garage, when you go through the tech line, it’s first come — first served. That’s something that us here at the back have always had to deal with, you’re last in line, that’s the way it is. You’ve got to move up the ladder if you want to get more practice time. That’s the way it is at this end of the garage and my heart bleeds for them.”(Insider Racing News)(2-28-2005)
