Penalties Across the Board

Over in the Nationwide side of the NASCAR fence in regards to the post race altercation at Lowe's,

• Tony Eury Sr. was fined $1,000 and placed on probation until June 25,
• JR Motorsports crew member Michael Sandlin will serve a one-race suspension from the Nationwide Series. He has been placed on probation until Oct. 15 and also has been fined $1,500
• Jordan Allen, another JR Motorsports crew member, also has been placed on probation until Oct. 15 and fined $1,500.

They all violated section 12-4-A (actions detrimental to stock car racing), Eury violated 9-4A (the crew chief assumes responsibility for the actions of his or her team), while Sandlin and Allen both failed to follow a directive from a NASCAR official and had inappropriate contact with a NASCAR official during the post-race altercation. (In other words, they be busy dishing out opinion on the road!!)
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Back on the SPRINT Cup side of things and the expected penalties for Haas CNC Racing, the escalated penalties were handed out in which many were surprised by:

The rules broken were 12-4-A (actions detrimental to stock car racing) and 20-3.1.3A (wing mounting locations were not as specified by the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Rule Book).

The penalties were:

• Riggs has been penalized 150 driver points
• No. 66 car owner Joe Custer has been penalized 150 owner points
  
• Sauter has been penalized 150 driver points
  
• No. 70 car owner Margaret Haas has been penalized 150 owner points
  
• Both the crew chiefs and the car chiefs for the two cars -- Bootie Barker and Derick Jennings for the No. 66 and Dave Skog and Thomas Harris for the No. 70 -- have been suspended from the next six Sprint Cup Series events, suspended from NASCAR until July 9 and placed on NASCAR probation until Dec. 31;

Additionally, Barker and Skog each have been fined $100,000.

The penalty also includes NASCAR's confiscation of team 66 Serial Number HMS 12 06 415 race car and team 70 Serial Number HMS 04 08 507 race car.

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I must digress on one issue, and that is when NASCAR said they would escalate COT penalties, I took it to mean each successive penalty would be more severe than the previous one - per team, not escalation across the board regardless of who was next.. wow.. it sucks to be Haas right now and this impacts their top 35 standings...

More on the top 35 later..

Haas CNC Gots Themselves Some Inspection Troubles

The 2 cars that Haas CNC Racing had qualified for the Coca-Cola 600 were both confiscated by NASCAR Saturday and removed from the track.

The scenario occurred because of issues NASCAR had with upper wing mounting points on both the No 66 (Scott Riggs) and 70 (Johnny Sauter) cars.

The discrepancy was brought to the attention of the NASCAR officials from some folks down in the garage area and the inspectors followed up on the issue.

Joe Custer is the teams' general manage and had no comments to offer yesterday since he had yet not been briefed by either Haas competition director Matt Borland, the 66 crew chief, Bootie Barker, or the 70's chief mechanic, Dave Skog.

Both teams went to their back up cars and struggled terribly in the ensuing practice sessions after the confiscation and they will be going to the back of the field for the start of the Coca-Cola 600.

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