NASCAR reveals the reason behind the delayed penalty for Kyle Busch at Richmond
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Kyle Busch's pit stop at Richmond Raceway Toyota Owners 400
In Motor Racing penalties are an important step toward keeping the race clean and fair by disincentivizing the team that had broken the law. But it is also worth understanding that the penalizing authority has the responsibility to give the penalty as soon as possible to give them a chance to ratify the mistake and make a comeback.
The things that got played out in Richmond last weekend weren’t in line with it as NASCAR took more than 200 laps to assess and announce a penalty for Joe Gibbs Racing No:18 car driver and two times cup series champion Kyle Busch for using a tape in his front grill an incident which the team later confirmed to be a pit crew mistake.
Kyle Busch who was having a quite good outing in Richmond got penalized in the 345th lap of the 400-lap race for an infraction that took place on the 128th lap. Kyle Busch was able to overcome the penalty constraints and rallied his way to P9 in the race in the latter stages. Now NASCAR has come forward to clarify the confusion looming over the incident at hand.
Find out what NASCAR Cup Series Managing Director Brad Moran has to say on Kyle Busch’s penalty delay
NASCAR Cup Series Managing Director Brad Moran appeared on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio to clarify the situation. He said that the association took its time to make sure the t infraction has occurred at the pit Kyle Busch and his crew is actually responsible for the situation. He went on to say that they rewatched the footage of Kyle Busch’s pit stop to make sure it happened as it seemed.
“We certainly needed to do our due diligence on how it got there and what it really was. So, we went back while the race was going on obviously, and did our due diligence to ensure, first of all, that the team placed the tape on the grille area. We did go back, found footage, found what we needed to say, yes, the team actually put it on,” Brad Moran said on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
Brad Moran also acknowledged that the race control only got information on the infraction at lap 234 though the incident took place at lap 148 and a lot of green-flag racing made it hard for them to do their due diligence. He went on to say once all was sorted out they notified the crew chief that the tape does have to be removed.
“We got notification around Lap 234 and it took a bit of time, obviously. A lot of green-flag racing at a 3/4-mile track. It takes a while to pull that up and we do our due diligence. The last thing we’re going to do is bring a vehicle down and find out later that it was something picked up off the track or they grabbed it on pit road or something to that fact, but once everything was sorted out, we did see how it happened, where it was and the crew chief was notified that it does have to be removed,” Brad Moran added.
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