{"id":131297,"date":"2025-09-09T13:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T13:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/131297\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T13:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T13:32:08","slug":"nascar-to-have-conversation-with-trackhouse-about-actions-after-gateway-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/131297\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR to have conversation with Trackhouse about actions after Gateway race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASCAR plans to talk to Trackhouse Racing about two of its cars running through the grass after last weekend\u2019s race at World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway, saying the actions \u201ccaught our radar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brad Moran, managing director of the NASCAR Cup Series, made the comments Tuesday morning on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll have be having some discussions with Trackhouse in management as well as their crew chiefs, and we\u2019ll be giving all the teams some information regarding that this week,\u201d Moran said when asked about what the Trackhouse cars did after the race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt certainly caught our radar. We have rules that could put the teams in a real bad spot when we see that. So, we\u2019ll make it pretty clear to them, moving forward, starting at Bristol what that means.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"Link\" aria-label=\"Winners, losers from NASCAR Cup playoff race at WWT Raceway won by Denny Hamlin\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nascar\/news\/winners-losers-from-nascar-cup-playoff-race-at-wwt-raceway-won-by-denny-hamlin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"NASCAR Cup Series Enjoy Illinois 300\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757424728_157_\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Denny Hamlin moved on to the second round with his win, but there were others who felt good after the race.<\/p>\n<p>The Trackhouse cars of playoff drivers Ross Chastain and Shane van Gisbergen both drove into the grass entering the access road in Turn 3 after taking the checkered flag.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Bowman, driving behind them, radioed his team: \u201cThe Trackhouse cars are driving through the grass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chastain is 19 points above the cutline heading into Saturday night\u2019s cutoff race at Bristol (7:30 p.m. ET on USA Network). His teammate, van Gisbergen, is 15 points below the cutline.<\/p>\n<p>Four drivers will be eliminated in Saturday night\u2019s race, which ends the first round of the Cup playoffs. Chase Briscoe and Denny Hamlin have secured spots in the second round with victories in the opening round. Briscoe won at Darlington and Hamlin won last weekend at Gateway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR plans to talk to Trackhouse Racing about two of its cars running through the grass after last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-131297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}