NASCAR penalizes Ty Gibbs for the post-race incident at Martinsville Speedway

NASCAR penalizes Ty Gibbs for the post-race incident at Martinsville Speedway

Ty Gibbs, winner of the Nalley Cars 250

NASCAR has announced a penalty for Joe Gibbs Racing driver Ty Gibbs for his misconduct post-race at Martinsville following the Xfinity Series event. The officials have fined the young Gibbs  $15,000 for a behavioral violation for hitting another competitor’s car on pit road.

But NASCAR is silent about the fistfight that occurred in the pit lane after the on-track altercation in the cooling down lap after Friday night’s Xfinity Series race at Martinsville Speedway. Ty Gibbs was forced out of contention for a win in the Xfinity Series race and the $100,000 Dash 4 Cash bonus by rival  No. 1 JR Motorsports Chevrolet of rival Sam Mayer in the last lap of the race.

A frustrated Ty Gibbs went after Sam Mayer and delivered bumper contact on the cool-down lap which then went on to become a fistfight and the officials were forced to intervene and stop the young drivers.

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The penalized violation fell under the heading of Section 4.3.A&E (NASCAR Member Conduct) and Section 8.8.8 (Crew member/Servicing) in the NASCAR Rule Book. Though both the drivers were called out to the Xfinity Series officials’ hauler for consultation no further action was taken against both the drivers.

Ty Gibbs No:54 team Crew Chief penalized by NASCAR for missing Lug Nut and RCR No:2 team

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Ty Gibbs NO: 54 car

NASCAR has also announced Penalty for Ty Gibbs, No. 54 JGR team, Crew Chief after it was found to have a single unsecured lug nut in the post-race inspection. He will have to pay a fine of $5,000 to NASCAR according to the announcement made.

NASCAR has also announced issued four-week suspensions  to three members of the Richard Childress Racing No. 2 team in the Xfinity Series for a ballast violation at Martinsville. RCR No:2 team will be missing crew chief Jeff Stankiewicz, car chief Kris McCabe and engineer Sam Bowers for the upcoming race weekends.

Also read: ‘We’ve all done dumb things,’ Joey Logano on Ty Gibbs’s Martinsville fistfight