{"id":53232,"date":"2025-08-08T00:13:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T00:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/53232\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T00:13:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T00:13:05","slug":"nascar-grants-playoff-waiver-for-austin-hill-after-suspension-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/53232\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR grants playoff waiver for Austin Hill after suspension in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASCAR suspended <a href=\"https:\/\/motorsportswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/motor\/nascar\/2025\/07\/31\/nascar-suspends-austin-hill-xfinity-series-race-iowa-2025\/85451372007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Austin Hill for one race after intentionally wrecking Aric Almirola at Indianapolis Motor Speedway<\/a>; however, he will still race for a championship. On Wednesday night, NASCAR announced it has granted Hill a playoff waiver to pursue an Xfinity Series title during the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>The Richard Childress Racing driver will still make the playoffs, but it won&#8217;t be without significant consequences. Hill will have <a href=\"https:\/\/motorsportswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/motor\/nascar\/2025\/07\/31\/austin-hill-loses-all-playoff-points-nascar-suspension-2025\/85451386007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">zero playoff points after NASCAR changed the waiver policy<\/a> before the 2025 season. If a driver is suspended, NASCAR will strip them of their playoff points earned during the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>The good news for Hill is that he can still compete for an Xfinity Series championship, but it will be a more challenging journey. The driver of the No. 21 will have zero playoff points to bank on throughout the Round of 12 and Round of 8, making this a very tough situation moving forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\">More: <a href=\"https:\/\/motorsportswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/motor\/nascar\/2025\/08\/07\/kaulig-racing-linked-to-nascar-cup-winner-for-xfinity-ride-in-2026\/85563994007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kaulig Racing linked to NASCAR Cup winner for Xfinity ride in 2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR suspended Austin Hill for one race after intentionally wrecking Aric Almirola at Indianapolis Motor Speedway; however, he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,1333,1345,1334,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-53232","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-overall","12":"tag-overall-positive","13":"tag-positive","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53232","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=53232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}