Charlotte, NC (AP) – La Chase Briscoe de Daytona 500, Briscoe, was inflicted on a major penalty on Wednesday when Nascar said that Joe Gibbs Racing had a modified book on Toyota n ° 19 in testing time.
Joe Gibbs Racing was moored 100 pounded / owners and 10 eliminatory points. The spoiler base is a single source part that cannot be modified and has been discovered in the NASCAR inspection process.
JGR was also sentenced to a fine of $ 100,000 and the crew chief James Small was suspended for four races. Briscoe is now going to Atlanta Motor Speedway with 67 negative points in the ranking. He went from the 10th to the 39th classification.
Joe Gibbs Racing said he would appeal and that “the problem in question was caused in the assembly process when the bolts used to fix the spoiler base at the bridge cover caused the door of the pre-drilled holes in Reason for parties provided. “
This is the second consecutive year that the Daytona 500 winner was penalized: Joey Logano turned out to have an illegal glove during his qualification race in 2024.
The Briscoe penalty marks a devastating start of its first season for Gibbs. The earliest, it can go to positive points is the third race of the season, at the Americas circuit.
In other penalties announced on Wednesday, the Sports Automobiles team of the first row n ° 34 of Todd Gilliland and the race team Rick Ware n ° 51 of Cody Ware were penalized for a violation of security for a ballast additional to their cars. Gilliland and Ware were moored by 10 driver points and their teams lost 10 owner points.
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