{"id":37800,"date":"2025-07-31T21:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T21:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/37800\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T21:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T21:39:09","slug":"nascars-amanda-ellis-details-how-austin-hill-5-lap-penalty-was-determined-after-aric-almirola-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/37800\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR’s Amanda Ellis details how Austin Hill 5-lap penalty was determined after Aric Almirola incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amanda Ellis, NASCAR\u2019s senior director of racing communications, shared details on how the league determined Austin Hill\u2018s five-lap penalty after his incident with Aric Almirola at Indianapolis. On the Hauler Talk podcast<\/a>, Ellis said the five-lap penalty was based on what NASCAR has done in the Truck Series. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe reasoning for that is, first of all, we have done that in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series a couple of times in recent years,\u201d Ellis said. \u201cAnd those drivers were held for two laps. When you move up a series, and you\u2019re in the Xfinity Series, you will often see that penalty be escalated. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat was the case of this. We felt like we kind of had that penalty before, and we felt like it needed to be escalated in this incident to show that NASCAR was not okay with what happened. Additionally, it was just a situation where I think after some conversations last year, there is a reason that NASCAR wants to react to these things quicker. We will still always review things on Tuesdays. That is something we are always going to do. But I do believe that there\u2019s some want to react to things when we feel like we know what\u2019s right, and this was one of those situations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Austin Hill has been suspended for one Xfinity Series race <\/p>\n

Austin Hill hit Aric Almirola during he 91st lap of the Xfinity Series race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway this past weekend. Hill bumped Almirola\u2019s right-rear fender, leading to Almirola\u2019s No. 19 Toyota into the wall. NASCAR issued the five-lap penalty on Hill. On Tuesday, NASCAR announced Hill was suspended for the upcoming Xfinity race at Iowa. <\/p>\n

Because of the suspension, Hill will require a waiver so that he can remain eligible for the Xfinity Series playoffs. He will forfeit his 21 playoff points and can\u2019t collect more before the playoffs begin. <\/p>\n

Hill drives the No. 21 Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing, and the team announced it won\u2019t appeal the suspension<\/a>. \u201cRichard Childress Racing will not appeal the penalty NASCAR issued to the No. 21 team following the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway,\u201d\u00a0the team said.<\/a>\u00a0\u201cWe remain focused on winning a championship with Austin Hill in 2025.\u00a0Austin Dillon\u00a0will race the No. 21 Chevrolet at Iowa Speedway.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amanda Ellis, NASCAR\u2019s senior director of racing communications, shared details on how the league determined Austin Hill\u2018s five-lap…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[21261,21262,49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-37800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-aric-almirola","9":"tag-austin-hill","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-nascar","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37800","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=37800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}