If It Walks Like a Duck, and Quacks Like a Duck, and...

NASCAR NEXTEL Cup driver Greg Biffle(#16-Subway/Coast Guard) was having a testing session at Phoenix when he ran across Jimmy Johnson(#48-Lowes).

Thing is Johnson was there testing the #25, not his #48.

NASCAR limits the number of tests per season for each team. They get a handful of 1 and 2 day tests that they can use at their discretion. Once they have used them up, they are done testing. Some teams save their tests and space them out through the year.

What did Hendrix and Johnson do that was so bad? They had a championship contender, Jimmy Johnson, who had used up his tests, go to Phoenix and test one of his teammates' cars. Instead of his #48, he was in the #25. Brian Vickers(25-UAW Delphi) wasn't even there.

So what you have here is Johnson getting track time, on a track with an upcoming race, in violation of the rules. If they wanted to test on a mile and a half oval so bad, all they had to do was go to a track that isn't on the NASCAR circuit. Tests on those tracks don't count against the test total, because they aren't part of the NEXTEL Cup race schedule.

Seems like this violates the wording of the rule if not the intent.

Johnson claims he was there "filling in" for the #25 team.

Uh huh? Sure. We believe you.

It reeks.

But he works for Jeff Gordon(#24-DuPont)...what do you expect?