NASCAR has penalized the No. 3 Richard Childress Racing staff for a indifferent wheel throughout Sunday’s Cup Collection race on the Charlotte Roval.
Austin Dillon’s left-front tire got here free in Flip 4 on lap 81, prompting the fifth and last warning interval of the race. The free wheel violated Sections 8.8.10.4.A & C within the NASCAR Rule Guide, which covers the “loss or separation of an improperly put in tire/wheel from the automobile through the occasion.” Dillon was in the end categorized thirty second.
As a consequence, Joshua Thomas (entrance tire-changer) and Nick Covey (jack) have been suspended for the following two Cup Collection occasions — Sunday’s race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and the October 27 occasion at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
NASCAR additionally fined 4 crew chiefs from the Xfinity Collection after their vehicles have been discovered with a single unsecured lug nut every throughout post-race inspections. Every crew chief was fined $5,000 for the protection violations; the drivers for all 4 groups are nonetheless championship-eligible within the Xfinity Collection Playoffs.
Groups with single-lug infractions (with their corresponding crew chiefs and drivers):
No. 7 JR Motorsports Chevrolet (crew chief James Pohlman, driver Justin Allgaier)
No. 8 JR Motorsports Chevrolet (crew chief Phillip Bell, driver Sammy Smith)
No. 21 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet (crew chief Andy Avenue, driver Austin Hill)
No. 81 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota (crew chief Jeff Meendering, driver Chandler Smith)
