Roush Fenway to appeal penalty, claiming it's "unfair"

Carl Edwards winning car failed post-race inspection on Sunday and NASCAR issued a 25 point penalty for Edwards.  Roush also lost 25 owner points and Osborne (Edwards crew chief) was fined $25,000 and put on probation. 

Standard for the infraction going by past instances this year, but Roush Fenway issued a statement basically saying that the penalty was "unfair" to Edwards as a Chaser.  This is the statement issued by Roush Fenway PR -

"We have the misfortune of violating a rule which makes no sense. It was promulgated to address restrictor plate races, not downforce races. I say misfortune because we are being penalized for a violation that actually impaired the car's performance. We intend to appeal the unfair assessment of the point's penalty. What is unfair is that Carl is receiving a penalty that is 250% greater in its effect than a similarly assessed penalty against a non-'Chase' driver. 'Chase' drivers are competing for a total of 1,950 points. All drivers competed for 5,070 points in the first 26 races. Do the math. The net effect is that a 25 point penalty falls unfairly hard on a 'Chase' contender. That's simply not right. To equalize the penalty impact on all competitors not more than 10 points should have been taken from a 'Chase' contender."

In essence, they are saying a couple of things, one that the penalty itself shouldn't be a penalty because of when it came about and what it was initially intended for.  But, I don't remember hearing them complaining about others being caught by this rule infraction and saying it wasn't right for them to be penalized.

Second, they seem to think that the Chase drivers should have a different set of penalties in the final ten races because they are racing for a different amount of points?  Give me a break.  Many drivers have been caught with this penalty, they are usually given time for it to come up and if it doesn't, they get penalized.  Other drivers, Kyle Busch and Johnny Sauter had the same points penalty for this same infraction, Brian Vickers had this infraction in post-qualifying inspection and wasn't even allowed to race. 

The Chasers already get the most airtime, now they want NASCAR to come up with a special penalty system for them?  I don't think so.  The car failed inspection, he's not out of the championship hunt because of the penalty, take the penalty and move on!

Your thoughts?