{"id":20707,"date":"2019-05-08T14:15:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T18:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=20707"},"modified":"2019-05-08T14:15:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T18:15:47","slug":"nascar-will-not-fine-kyle-busch-or-bob-leavine-for-dover-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/05\/08\/nascar-will-not-fine-kyle-busch-or-bob-leavine-for-dover-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR will not fine Kyle Busch or Bob Leavine for Dover comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/05\/img_2175.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20706\" width=\"1280\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/05\/img_2175.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/05\/img_2175-594x316.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/05\/img_2175-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/05\/img_2175-768x408.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/05\/img_2175-1024x544.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NASCAR announced on Wednesday that they would take no action against Joe Gibbs Racing Kyle Busch or Leavine Fanily Racing owner Bob Leavine following comments about the recent Cup Series race at Dover.<\/p>\n<p>Following the race such expressed displeasure with the corner speeds and aero package in the Gander RV 400.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(22, 24, 27); color: rgb(22, 24, 27); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\">&#8220;The package sucks,&#8221; Busch<\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(22, 24, 27); color: rgb(22, 24, 27); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><strong><a class=\"content-element__a\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DustinAlbino\/status\/1125483380567621633\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(254, 7, 78); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial\">said<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(22, 24, 27); color: rgb(22, 24, 27); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(22, 24, 27); color: rgb(22, 24, 27); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\">after the race, via Frontstretch&#8217;s Dustin Albino. &#8220;No f-ing question about it. It&#8217;s terrible. All I can do is b- about it and fall on deaf ears and we&#8217;ll come back with the same thing in the fall.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Leavine echoed those comments on Twitter and complained about NASCAR not listening to it&#8217;s owners and competitors. On Tuesday Operations Director Steve O&#8217;Donnell was <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/05\/07\/steve-odonnell-gets-all-hot-and-bothered-about-bob-leavines-dover-comments\/\">critical of both Busch and Leavine<\/a> while appearing on SiriusFM Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASCAR announced on Wednesday that they would take no action against Joe Gibbs Racing Kyle Busch or Leavine Fanily Racing owner Bob Leavine following comments about the recent Cup Series race at Dover. Following the race such expressed displeasure with the corner speeds and aero package in the Gander RV 400. &#8220;The package sucks,&#8221; Busch&nbsp;said&nbsp;after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[1089,202,375,380,708],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-news","9":"tag-bob-leavine","10":"tag-dover-international-speedway","11":"tag-kyle-busch","12":"tag-leavine-family-racing","13":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20707"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}