Daily NASCAR

by Holly Cain

Filed under: Jimmie Johnson, Mark Martin, Chase for the Sprint Cup, Hendrick Motorsports

NASCAR has warned the teams of championship leaders Mark Martin and Jimmie Johnson that their Chevrolets were dangerously close to failing post-race inspection last week at Dover, Del., where the three-time defending series champion Johnson won the race and his Hendrick Motorsports teammate Martin finished runner-up.

Johnson’s crew chief Chad Knaus cautioned that there was no wrong-doing, no intent to do wrong and that the attention this is receiving is mostly media sensationalism.

“The cars were legal, that’s the thing everybody has to understand,” Knaus said Friday from this week’s Sprint Cup Series venue, Kansas Speedway. “It’s turned into a bigger issue than what it really should.”

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