Earlier this week, NASCAR issued substantial penalties to the three groups concerned in what collection officers deemed to be a type of race manipulation — the No. 3 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet, the No. 1 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet of Ross Chastain, and the No. 23 23XI Racing Toyota of Bubba Wallace. Crew chiefs, spotters, and key executives have been suspended for one week. Every group and driver have been docked 50 factors, and fined $200,000 (100k for the group and 100k for the driving force).
Initially, all three groups made it clear that they supposed to enchantment the penalties. 23XI, who can be preventing for the Cup title this weekend with Tyler Reddick, shortly determined to withdraw their enchantment. However each Chevrolet groups concerned moved ahead. Nonetheless, after Trackhouse misplaced their enchantment on Thursday night, RCR misplaced their very own.
Those that heard the case from Trackhouse: Kelly Housby, Lyn St. James, and Steve York. Trackhouse won’t enchantment the penalty any additional.
The appeals panel launched the next assertion to elucidate their determination: “We really feel in the perfect curiosity of racing and to guard the integrity of the game, it was acceptable to uphold and affirm NASCAR’s determination with regard to the NASCAR rule 4.4, making an attempt to control the result of the race.”
