75 point penalty, $50,000 fine and six race suspension has been handed out by NASCAR officials
Timmy Hill and the No. 66 team have been handed a very large penalty at Daytona International Speedway. The penalty was issued ahead of qualifying on Saturday morning.
The team placed bondo on the side edge lip of their Toyota Supra nose.
Read MoreFour teams penalized ahead of the NASCAR race at Martinsville Speedway
Today, they’ll drop the green flag at Martinsville Speedway in Ridgeway, Virginia. The paperclip oval is set for 500 laps of stock car racing.
However, this is also an enhanced weekend. That puts inspection at a different point in the weekend.
Read MoreFive of the top-10 have failed NASCAR inspection at Kansas Speedway
Highlights: 11 cars failed post-qualifying/pre-race inspection at Kansas Speedway and will go to the back. Additionally, several teams will have a crew member ejected.
The NASCAR garage area opened at 1:30pm today. Inspection was the first thing on the list after some crew chiefs had a sleepless night and with good reason.
Read MoreNASCAR pulled Carl Long Motorsports into the NASCAR hauler and told him that he couldn’t qualify at Texas Motor Speedway due to a sealed engine rule violation
Carl Long: “I pleaded my case. I have destroyed all my sealed engines. My backup is not sealed, and the one in my Phoenix car is not sealed.”
Read MoreNASCAR crew member suspended following an infraction of NASCAR’s substance abuse policy
There was a single penalty announced following the NASCAR weekend at Dover International Speedway. The weekend featured a double header weekend for the Monster Energy NASCRA Cup Series as well as the NASCAR Xfinity Series.
There were no mechanical,
Read MoreBowyer, Kenseth, Kahne and more fail to make it through qualifying inspection
As qualifying was set to get underway at Kansas Speedway, 12 cars were stuck in pre-qualifying inspection. 1 by 1 they went through the tent, many were forced to start the process all over.
For Clint Bowyer,
Read More13 cars failed to make it through pre-qualifying inspection – They start the race on Sunday with new tires which would have been an advantage if NASCAR didn’t adjust the rules on them
As the light switched to green in the first round of qualifying, Jimmie Johnson was walking back to the garage area.
Read MoreNASCAR has changed the rules in the middle of the ballgame and nullified the advantage
And it’s the right call.
Yesterday, 13 cars failed to make it through pre-qualifying inspection. It’s widely speculated that some of those teams did that on purpose.
Why? Because they would have started the race on brand new tires.
Read MoreNASCAR VP details inspection issues at Auto Club Speedway
Yesterday, 13 cars failed to make it out of the garage and onto the pit lane. Multiple passes, for multiple cars netted a line at the inspection station.
Instead, 24 cars made it to the track. All they had to do with turn a lap and they would advance to round 2.
Read MoreNASCAR racecar rear skew is the measurement in question in terms of problems passing NASCAR inspection
The rear skew in NASCAR racecars still very much exists. It’s nothing like it was 10-15 years ago. These days, with laser inspections NASCAR is better at catching it.
Below we here from the NASCAR VP of competion,
Read More12 cars didn’t turn a single lap in qualifying at Kansas – 11 NASCAR teams failed to make it through inspection
As the field rolled out for first practice at Kansas Speedway, some didn’t. Jamie McMurray, Kyle Busch, Chris Buescher, Kyle Larson, Erik Jones and Dale Earnhardt Jr all sat on the edge of pitroad.
Read More2016 Gateway Dirt Nationals Photography – Saturday – Dirt Modifieds
2016 Gateway Dirt Nationals photography has been posted. The photos were taken during the final day of racing on Saturday December 17th, 2016.
This album features modified photos from the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis. The photos are from the Gateway Dirt Nationals finale dirt track racing event.
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