By Paul Denton
When you read the story below think of a boxer being paid to throw a fight ,A football player faking a injury in the play offs,A basketballl player being told to miss a free throw There's not any difference in that and what happened here:
BONUS FOR EARLY WITHDRAWAL
Paul Menard, slated to run full schedules in both the Nationwide and Sprint Cup Series, will race in Saturday's DRIVE4COPD 300 -- thanks to the sudden withdrawal of five cars that would have made the field ahead of him under NASCAR's rainout rules.
When rain cancels qualifying for the season-opening race, the top 30 in 2009 Nationwide owner points, along with race winners from the previous year and all past champions who participated in the series last year are exempt into the field.
The remainder of the field is set according to qualifying draw, and Menard (who would have been the 48th driver to take make a qualifying run) wasn't promoted into 43rd starting spot until Jeff Fuller, Donnie Neuenberger, Dennis Setzer, Mark Green and rookie Parker Kligerman -- all of whom were ahead of Menard in the qualifying draw -- withdrew from the event.
Menard's father, John Menard, is one of the wealthiest men in the garage, and word has it that those who pulled out of the race left the track with bulging wallets.
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