CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Daytona 500 pole-winner Chase Briscoe was dealt a serious penalty Wednesday when NASCAR stated Joe Gibbs Racing had a modified spoiler on the No. 19 Toyota in time trials.
Joe Gibbs Racing was docked 100 driver/proprietor factors and 10 playoff factors. The spoiler base is a single-source half that can’t be modified and was found in NASCAR’s inspection course of.
JGR additionally was fined $100,000 and crew chief James Small was suspended for 4 races. Briscoe now goes to Atlanta Motor Speedway with adverse 67 factors within the standings. He dropped from tenth within the standings to thirty ninth.
Joe Gibbs Racing stated it might enchantment and “the difficulty in query was prompted within the meeting course of when bolts used to connect the spoiler base to the deck lid prompted the pre-drilled holes to put on because of equipped half interferences.”
It’s the second consecutive 12 months the Daytona 500 pole-winner has been penalized: Joey Logano was discovered to have an unlawful glove throughout his qualifying run in 2024.
The Briscoe penalty marks a devastating begin to his first season driving for Gibbs. The earliest he can transfer into constructive factors is the third race of the season, at Circuit of the Americas.
In different penalties introduced Wednesday, the No. 34 Entrance Row Motorsports workforce of Todd Gilliland and No. 51 Rick Ware Racing workforce of Cody Ware had been penalized for a security violation for added ballast to their vehicles. Gilliland and Ware had been docked 10 driver factors and their groups misplaced 10 proprietor factors.
