Huge Penalty NASCAR officials issued a L2-level penalty to the No. 6 Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing team on Thursday morning, penalizing the team 100 driver points and 100 owner points to signi... Impact The rules infraction pertained to the modification of a single-sourced part. The issue was discovered during pre-race inspection at Atlanta last Sunday. NASCAR takes this infraction very seriously, and levies some major penalties as a result. In addition to the 100-point deduction, Keselowski's crew chief, Matt McCall, was fined $100,000 and suspended for the next four events. The points penalty drops the veteran driver from 16th- to 35th-place in the driver standings. The fallout from this is that Keselowski will face an uphill battle trying to make the playoffs later this season.
MARCH 24, 2022 • ROTOWIRE
