{"id":249443,"date":"2025-10-30T05:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T05:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/249443\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T05:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T05:40:10","slug":"haas-factory-reacts-to-nascar-suspending-sam-mayer-names-replacement-driver-for-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/249443\/","title":{"rendered":"Haas Factory reacts to NASCAR suspending Sam Mayer, names replacement driver for Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following NASCAR\u2019s suspension of Sam Mayer at Phoenix<\/a> this weekend, Haas Factory Team has named his replacement driver. Ryan Sieg will captain the No. 41 car in Mayer\u2019s stead.<\/p>\n

Mayer was suspended for the race at Phoenix on Tuesday evening. His suspension was a result of a post-race interaction with Jeb Burton.<\/p>\n

After the two had some heated exchanges on the track during the race, Sam Mayer cleaned out Burton after the checkered flag. The wreck instantly drew scrutiny, including from NASCAR.<\/p>\n

Haas Factory Team announced that it will not appeal the penalty. The reasoning seemed straightforward, given the high-profile nature of the incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough we are disappointed with the results, Haas Factory Team will not appeal the penalty NASCAR issued to Sam Mayer and the No. 41 team following last weekend\u2019s race at Martinsville Speedway,\u201d a Haas Factory Team statement read<\/a>. \u201cWe remain focused on finishing the season out strong at Phoenix Raceway and look forward to contending for a race win with Ryan Sieg at the wheel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jeb Burton rips Sam Mayer after Xfinity race<\/p>\n

After the finish, Jeb Burton got to tell his side of the Sam Mayer story. Of course, he ripped Mayer for his actions during and after the race.<\/p>\n

Burton knew why Mayer was upset. Still, he doesn\u2019t really care. Burton feels that he wasn\u2019t raced with respect that he tends to give Mayer. So, it appears that respect is done for now.<\/p>\n

\u201cUh, I think Sam was mad that last week he got taken out in an accident at Talladega and he was acting like a child like Sam is,\u201d Burton said, via Noah Lewis of TSJ Sports<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019re on old tires at the end of stage one, I believe. And he shipped me out of the way, I think we all saw that, I was on the front row, for no reason. I\u2019ve always raced Sam really clean, never had a problem with him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen to, I moved him at the end for a spot because I was still pissed off at what he did, because when he moved me, I went back to 20th, and it really almost ruined our day because we got off strategy. So, that was frustrating. So, that\u2019s why I moved him back. I didn\u2019t wreck him, just moved him. At the end of the race after the checkered, he destroyed our car and wrecked us.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, hopefully, NASCAR does something because he literally right reared me into the outside wall. So, I don\u2019t know. I hate for my guys to tear up a car, but you know, I race a lot of people out here with respect, and I just want it back. And he ran over me for no reason, so I gave it back to him, and he threw a temper tantrum. So, it is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

On3\u2019s Jonathan Howard also contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following NASCAR\u2019s suspension of Sam Mayer at Phoenix this weekend, Haas Factory Team has named his replacement driver.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-249443","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\/249443","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=249443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}