 Bowman in victory lane in Phoenix. Image: Hendrick Motorsports At this past weekend's Phoenix before practice on Friday, NASCAR found several Chevrolet teams with tampered their hood louvers. NASCAR aloud the teams to use the teams to use the parts for practice before they confiscated the louvers (which can be seen here nascar101.nascar.com/next-gen-interactive-car-model/) from the 9, 5, 24, 48, and 31 teams and inspected them further. On Wednesday it was announced by the sanctioning body that the teams tampered with the louvers which are single-sourced spec parts.
The 5 teams violated Sections 14.5.4.2.A of the NASCAR rulebook which directly relates to how the radiator ducts are assembled. All 5 of the teams were found to have unapproved modifications to the single-sourced parts. This L2 penalty is equivalent to the penalties given to RFK & FRM last season dishing out a 100-point driver penalty to each driver as well as being docked 10 Playoff points. This comes with an exception for Josh Berry who is not receiving championship points in the Cup Series as he is a fill-in for the injured Chase Elliott. All five teams will be docked 100 owners points as well. Each crew chief was fined $100,000 and suspended for 4 races. Cliff Daniels (5), Alan Gustafson (9), Rudy Fugle (24), and Blake Harris (48) for Hendrick Motorsports and Trent Owens for Kaulig (31). Before the penalties, Alex Bowman sat atop the points standings and 4th in the playoffs, he now sits 23rd. Byron led the playoffs with 2 wins and 13 Playoff points and sat 4th in the standings, he now sits 29th. The loss of the 10 Playoff Points will negate the 10 points gained due to Byron's 2 race wins but he will retain his 3 stage win points. Larson sat 5th in the standings and now sits in 32nd and Justin Haley from 24th now to 49th. By: Tom Luttermoser
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