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BY GEORGE SIPPLE • FREE PRESS SPORTS WRITER

BROOKLYN, Mich. -- Joe Gibbs Racing could face severe penalties for infractions discovered during an inspection following Saturday's Nationwide Series Carfax 250 at Michigan International Speedway.

Apparently upset at engine rule changes handed down last month by NASCAR to limit Toyota's dominance over the other manufacturers in the Nationwide Series, members of JGR allegedly put an object under the accelerator pedal to limit horsepower during a chassis dynometer test.

"There was a piece there that apparently wouldn't let the pedal go all the way down in the dyno, and it showed like we had less horsepower than we actually did," JGR team president J.D. Gibbs said during a news conference Sunday at MIS. "Let me just say, first and foremost, that was a really poor, foolish decision on the part of our key guys there at JGR. I want to apologize to NASCAR, to our partners, to the Toyota guys.

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