Pocono NASCAR Penalties – L1 Issued

An L1 penalty has been handed out to Furniture Row Racing – Crew Chief suspension and $50,000 fine

Today, Pocono Raceway penalties have been announced. Teams were fined in both the NASCAR Xfinity Series event at Iowa Speedway. Additionally, the NASCAR Truck Series had a fine as well.

View Pocono penalties below for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series

Related: Pocono Raceway Results – July 30th, 2017

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Pocono NASCAR Penalties
Erik Jones

The No. 77 Furniture Row Racing team received an L1-level penalty on Wednesday following the Overton’s 400 at Pocono Raceway. Erik Jones’s eighth-place finish was ruled encumbered after the Toyota he was driving was found to have a rear-suspension violation per Section 20.14.2 of the NASCAR Rule Book.

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Crew chief Chris Gayle was fined $50,000 and suspended for two Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series championship points events. The team was also assessed with the loss of 25 owner points and 25 driver points.

It was not immediately known whether the team would appeal the penalty. A 25-point drop in driver points would put Jones 150 points below today’s playoff cutline.

Lug-Nuts
Fines were also handed out to three other teams in the Monster Energy Series for lug-nut violations at Pocono. The No. 18 of race-winning driver Kyle Busch, the No. 17 of Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and the No. 6 of Trevor Bayne were all found to have one lug nut improperly installed.

The result of those safety violations were $10,000 fines for each crew chief — Adam Stevens, Brian Pattie and Matt Puccia, respectively.

NASCAR Xfinity Series

In addition, the crew chiefs for the No. 16 in the XFINITY Series (Phil Gould, $5,000) and the No. 52 in the Camping World Truck Series (Trip Bruce, $2,500) were fined for lug-nut violations in their respective events last weekend at Iowa Speedway and Pocono Raceway.

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