Six NASCAR Chevy Xfinity, Truck Teams Penalized After Kansas
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Six NASCAR Chevy teams across two divisions were penalized following this past weekend’s races at Kansas Speedway. Interestingly, most teams were penalized for lug nut infractions, while others were nabbed for infractions to the triangular body filler panels on their race trucks.
The No. 2 NASCAR Chevy Camaro, driven in the Xfinity Series by Sheldon Creed, received the most severe penalty. The race car was found to have two unsecured lug nuts during a postrace inspection. As this violates the sanctioning body’s guidelines, the No. 2 Chevy team will have to operate for one race without crew chief Jeff Stankiewicz, meaning he will miss the coming race at Bristol on September 15th, 2023. Stankiewicz was also fined $10,000. Sam Bowers, an engineer at Richard Childress Racing, will sub for Stankiewicz at Bristol.
Creed drove that No. 2 Camaro to a third-place at Kansas last Saturday, and is currently in contention for the 2023 Xfinity Series title. Losing his crew chief, even for once race, could make his championship bid more difficult.
The No. 21 Camaro of Austin Hill was also nabbed for an unsecured lug nut, as was the No. 27 Camaro of Jeb Burton. Crew chiefs Andy Street and Shane Whitbeck were both fined $5,000, but were not suspended.
Meanwhile, three Truck Series teams were penalized as well, including the No. 02 NASCAR Chevy Silverado RST of Kaden Honeycutt, and the No. 9 Silverado of Colby Howard. After Friday’s Truck Series race at Kansas, they were each hit with L1-level penalties for infractions related to the triangular filler panels and docked 10 points.
Finally, the No. 12 Silverado of Spencer Boyd was found to have a single loose lug. Crew chief Tyler Young was fined $2,500.
As a reminder, both the Xfinity and Truck Series race cars utilize traditional five-lug hubs, as opposed to the single-lug hubs found on the Next Gen race cars that compete in the Cup Series.
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Nascar , favors the toyotas as they have the most $ especially the Gibbs & Jordan teams with their favorite black lives matter driver bubba (smullet) wallace . Daytona Speedway may as well be called toyo raceway as Toyota banners are everywhere !
NASCAR Is going to kill the sport before too long in my opinion. Fine and suspend a crew chief for loose lug nuts and he didn’t even get over the wall! This crap has to stop before NASCAR damages its image beyond repair. The fans are not going to put up with all the cautions called for no reason other that picking and choosing who they want to benefit. Crew chiefs suspended for something they had no part of the issue. Constantly having caution flags when there was no wreck, only a spinout that didn’t evolve anyone else and even regained control and continued around the track! Tomg
NASCAR is basically and foremost a business, run by businessmen whose saddled with making huge profits for everyone who invest in the business. That said as with most big businesses they have agenda’s that have to be followed which means that they’re going to be involved in that most ugly of words…”Politics”! So, when you’ve got investors willing to invest in the business you are pretty much tied into doing some things that they would want done and that will keep them investing in the business. The fact that NASCAR has been around for so many years is truly amazing as it has gone through so many changes (safety wise) that has made the business a lot safer, but…so much more political and that, in my estimation will be the downfall of what used to be one of the greatest organizations in Motorsports! Stop the politics and lets go racing again!