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<\/p>\nRFK Racing will appeal the penalties NASCAR assessed Ryan Preece for an incident between him and Ty Gibbs at Texas Motor Speedway in Sunday\u2019s Wurth 400.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe appreciate the opportunity to share our findings with the National Motorsports Appeals Panel at the appropriate time,\u201d RFK Racing said in a statement released Thursday evening. \u201cAdditionally, our organization respectfully embraces the forum provided by NASCAR to present our case.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Tuesday evening, NASCAR assessed Preece a $50,000 fine and the loss of 25 driver points for spinning Gibbs into the third-turn wall on lap 101 of the 267-lap race. The incident eliminated Gibbs from the race and relegated him to a 36th-place finish in the 38-car field. Preece finished 14th.<\/p>\n
NASCAR Cup Series Managing Director Brad Moran says NASCAR issued the penalty after reviewing audio, video and SMT data.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was very similar to the same penalty that was handed out to Denny Hamlin a few years back with Ross Chastain,\u201d Moran said Wednesday on SiriusXM\u2019s The Morning Drive.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe get reports throughout the entire event. It\u2019s not uncommon that we would hear long before the incident happened, some of the conversations that were being had. Once we reviewed everything\u2026 it would have been pretty hard for us (not) to say that was a little bit of aggressive racing.\u201d <\/p>\n
Prior to Preece\u2019s contact with Gibbs, he said on his two-way radio, \u201cWhen I get to the 54 (Gibbs), I\u2019m done with him. (Bleep) idiot! \u2026 I can\u2019t stand when idiots like him have fast race cars that they can do stupid (bleep) and get away with it!\u201d<\/p>\n
After Gibbs spun, as he headed to pit road, he said over his radio, \u201cI\u2019ll get him (Preece) another time.\u201d <\/p>\n
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The Preece\/Gibbs incident wasn\u2019t the only one that caught NASCAR\u2019s attention. Headed for the white flag, there was a door banging incident between Kyle Busch and John Hunter Nemechek that sent Nemechek into the wall. Both finished the race and within one position of each other. Busch finished 20th and Nemechek 21st. Moran said no penalties were assessed in that incident after everything was reviewed because it was determined Busch\u2019s car was difficult to turn because of damage sustained when his Chevrolet hit the outside wall.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey went down into turn three on the last lap and everything we looked at we felt we could not issue a penalty on all the information we had,\u201d Moran said.<\/p>\n
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Moran said the car\u2019s toe links will bend when hitting the wall like Busch\u2019s did and that makes the car a \u201chandful.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGoing into the corner for the first time with a damaged car, we took that as part of the information that led us not to do the penalty on the eight car (Busch),\u201d Moran said. <\/p>\n
Moran said NASCAR would have a discussion with Busch and Nemechek at Watkins Glen prior to this weekend\u2019s race. He said they wanted to make sure everything was good with both drivers so something larger didn\u2019t occur that would force NASCAR to get involved. <\/p>\n
Moran says he knows people believe if a penalty is issued for one incident, it should be assessed for the other, but that\u2019s not the way NASCAR operates.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe look at every incident individually,\u201d said Moran, who noted audio, video and data was used in the Busch\/Nemechek incident. <\/p>\n
In Saturday\u2019s NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series race, Mason Maggio and Austin Green tangled and spun in turn two. After the caution period began, Maggio restarted his car, pulled up the track in front of an emergency vehicle and nearly hit the pace car. The pace car driver took evasive action to avoid the collision. Moran said NASCAR met with Maggio and his spotter after that race. <\/p>\n
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A North Carolina native, Deb Williams is an award-winning motorsports journalist who is in her fourth decade covering auto racing. In addition to covering the sport for United Press International, she has written motorsports articles for several newspapers, magazines and websites including espnW.com<\/a>, USA Today, and The Charlotte Observer. Her awards include the American Motorsports Media Award of Excellence, two-time National Motorsports Press Association writer of the year, and two-time recipient of the Russ Catlin award. She also has won an award in the North Carolina Press Association\u2019s sports feature category.\u00a0 During her career, Deb has been managing editor of GT Motorsports magazine and was with Winston Cup Scene and NASCAR Winston Cup Scene for 18 years, serving as the publication\u2019s editor for 10 years. In 2024 she was inducted into the NMPA Hall of Fame.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RFK Racing will appeal the penalties NASCAR assessed Ryan Preece for an incident between him and Ty Gibbs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,782,243059,784,237154,1642,634,243058,82,183339],"class_list":["post-656075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-fd132722-27fd-4017-b48e-45ff433910f4","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-us","tag-nascar","tag-shorttitle-nascar-defends-preece-penalty-as-rfk-appeals","tag-sports","tag-subsection-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656075","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=656075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}