{"id":246490,"date":"2025-10-28T21:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T21:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/246490\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T21:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T21:49:07","slug":"nascar-suspends-sam-mayer-after-post-race-crash-at-martinsville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/246490\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR suspends Sam Mayer after post-race crash at Martinsville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASCAR penalty report from Martinsville Speedway<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, NASCAR raced at Martinsville Speedway with a lot on the line. The half-mile hosted the final playoff elimination race and set the Championship 4 drivers for this coming weekend at Phoenix Raceway. <\/p>\n<p>View the NASCAR penalty report from Martinsville Speedway below. <\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s NASCAR Xfinity Series race saw drama after crossing the finish line. Sam Mayer drove into Jeb Burton sending him into the wall. He was showing frustration after the race was over.<\/p>\n<p>In the post race interview, Mayer admitted to his actions. While that\u2019s great for the fans, this only gave NASCAR more reason to issue a penalty. <\/p>\n<p>Mayer was aware of that as he stated, \u201cI\u2019m probably going to get in trouble for this interview already. Just trying to make up for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/racingnews.co\/2025\/10\/25\/nascar-penalty-pending-for-sam-mayer-after-martinsville-video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch the full Sam Mayer interview here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASCAR has been harsh on similar moves in the past. Earlier this season, Austin Hill was suspended one-race for intentionally crashing Aric Almirola. However, that situation was arguably less of an infraction than this one as it occurred during race conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, NASCAR hinted that a penalty was on the way. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving those types of incidents after the checkered flag is not something we\u2019re going to tolerate,\u201d Elton Sawyer told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.siriusxm.com\/channels\/siriusxm-nascar-radio\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sirius XM NASCAR Radio<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/racingnews.co\/2025\/10\/28\/nascar-hints-at-a-penalty-for-sam-mayer-after-crashing-post-finish\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASCAR hints at a penalty for Sam Mayer after crashing post-finish<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was never a question of if Sam Mayer would be penalized or not. However, there was question as to how steep the penalty would be.<\/p>\n<p>NASCAR Xfinity Series<br \/>Penalties<\/p>\n<p>Driver\/Team: Sam Mayer No. 41<\/p>\n<p>Date: 10\/25\/2025<\/p>\n<p>Level: Behavioral<\/p>\n<p>Infraction: (Section 4.4.B) NASCAR Member Code of Conduct<\/p>\n<p>Penalty: Driver (Sam Mayer) has been suspended from NASCAR for the next points event, through Phoenix Raceway, November 2, 2025.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/racingnews.co\/2025\/10\/25\/nascar-penalty-pending-for-sam-mayer-after-martinsville-video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Mayer crashes Jeb Burton (Video)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Links<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sammayerracing.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Mayer<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jebburton.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeb Burton<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.martinsvillespeedway.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Martinsville Speedway<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nascar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">NASCAR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR penalty report from Martinsville Speedway Over the weekend, NASCAR raced at Martinsville Speedway with a lot on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,3140,7575,113642,66047,26793,112608,112609,634,3628,8354,62952,8662,6902,7576,10031,80665,80666,3468,36547,21411,45143,82,4137,723],"class_list":["post-246490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cup-series","tag-jeb-burton","tag-jordan-anderson","tag-martinsville","tag-martinsville-speedway","tag-martinsville-va","tag-martinsville-virginia","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup","tag-nascar-cup-series","tag-nascar-playoff","tag-nascar-playoffs","tag-nascar-xfinity","tag-nascar-xfinity-series","tag-ncs","tag-penalties","tag-penalty","tag-playoff","tag-playoffs","tag-sam-mayer","tag-sammy-smith","tag-sports","tag-virginia","tag-xfinity-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246490","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=246490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}