{"id":660754,"date":"2026-05-10T19:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T19:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/660754\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T19:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T19:27:11","slug":"ty-gibbs-and-brad-keselowski-weigh-in-on-preeces-nascar-punishment-motorsport-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/660754\/","title":{"rendered":"Ty Gibbs and Brad Keselowski weigh in on Preece\u2019s NASCAR punishment &#8211; Motorsport &#8211; Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"withoutCaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/bristol-tn-brad-keselowski-talks-with-ryan-preece-during-qualifying-for-the-nascar-cup-series-556156.jpeg\" class=\"zoomEnabled\" data-img=\"https:\/\/cdn-images.the-express.com\/img\/dynamic\/55\/1200x712\/secondary\/bristol-tn-brad-keselowski-talks-with-ryan-preece-during-qualifying-for-the-nascar-cup-series-556156.jpg?r=1778435491682\" alt=\"AUTO: SEP 12 NASCAR Cup Series Bass Pro Shops Night Race\" title=\"AUTO: SEP 12 NASCAR Cup Series Bass Pro Shops Night Race\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Brad Keselowski weighed in on Ryan Preece&#8217;s punishment (Image: Getty)<\/p>\n<p>Brad Keselowski and Ty Gibbs both weighed in after Ryan Preece was punished for wrecking the Joe Gibbs Racing driver at Texas last week.<\/p>\n<p data-mce-linkchecker-status=\"valid\">Preece has been hit with a $50,000 fine and 25 point penalty by NASCAR after Kyle Busch escaped punishment for an ugly incident in the same race. Preece\u2019s team, <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/sport\/motorsport\/206724\/rfk-racing-ryan-preece-appeal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RFK Racing, co-owned by teammate Keselowski, plans to appeal the incident.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Keselowski admitted officiating is a job he has no desire to get involved in as he pointed out the challenges of the job and backed NASCAR\u2019s appeals process to do its job as he admitted he was not \u201csurprised\u201d by news of Preece\u2019s fate. Meanwhile, <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/sport\/motorsport\/206895\/joey-logano-ryan-blaney-contract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Joey Logano made his feelings clear on Ryan Blaney\u2019s new Penske contract.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Keselowski said: \u201cI don&#8217;t get surprised very much, so I wouldn&#8217;t say surprised. You know, I&#8217;m glad that there&#8217;s an appeal process. Ryan&#8217;s gonna go through all that, whenever they get it booked. I don&#8217;t think they have it scheduled at this time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve been a part of a couple of them and generally, I feel like they&#8217;re a pretty fair process. So it&#8217;s good that the sport has something like that, you know to work through when there&#8217;s a difference of opinions. Certainly appreciate the process and I\u2019m wishing Ryan the best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe line\u2019s always moving, right?\u201d Keselowski added. \u201cI say that in somewhat jest because, man, I\u2019ve done a lot of jobs in the sport. The one job I haven\u2019t done, and I don\u2019t think I probably ever will, is be a NASCAR official.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWatch me eat those words, but that said, man, that\u2019s a tough job. You know, I think you see some sports that have race stewards. I would like to see NASCAR have race stewards. I think it would probably make it easier on them when calls like that are so difficult, and I think you saw a difficult call (Friday) in the truck race with the restart zones, and man, those are really tough calls, and I\u2019m glad I don\u2019t have to make them. But I respect their position, respect how they\u2019re trying to do what they think is best for the sport, that\u2019s for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Preece and Gibbs have not discussed the incident since it happened, and Gibbs said there was not much point in doing so at this stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"withoutCaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/fort-worth-tx-ty-gibbs-greets-fans-during-driver-introductions-before-the-wurth-400-in-the-556158.jp.jpeg\" class=\"zoomEnabled\" data-img=\"https:\/\/cdn-images.the-express.com\/img\/dynamic\/55\/1200x712\/secondary\/fort-worth-tx-ty-gibbs-greets-fans-during-driver-introductions-before-the-wurth-400-in-the-556158.jpg?r=1778435491698\" alt=\"AUTO: MAY 03 NASCAR Cup Series Wurth 400\" title=\"AUTO: MAY 03 NASCAR Cup Series Wurth 400\" width=\"590\" height=\"384\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ty Gibbs also shared his verdict (Image: Getty)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, yeah, probably not,\u201d he said. \u201cI mean, there\u2019s not much to talk about there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, yeah, it sucks. We got destroyed there, but obviously, that was last week, and we\u2019ll let NASCAR figure that out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut yeah, we have a wrecked race car and lost a lot of points for going three-wide bottom and not making any contact. So I think it\u2019s pretty \u2026 yeah, I don\u2019t know, but we\u2019ll just keep going this weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Discussing the punishment, Gibbs added: \u201cI haven\u2019t looked that much into that, but obviously, if you say you\u2019re gonna wreck somebody and you do it, that\u2019s obviously an issue NASCAR\u2019s said in the past. So I think there\u2019s been plenty of situations \u2026 not plenty, but a couple where they\u2019ve penalized people for that, so I mean, that was just another situation like that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brad Keselowski weighed in on Ryan Preece&#8217;s punishment (Image: Getty) Brad Keselowski and Ty Gibbs both weighed in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[16600,49,48,2332,634,244309,9537,82,47148],"class_list":["post-660754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-brad-keselowski","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-motorsport-section","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-punishment","tag-ryan-preece","tag-sports","tag-ty-gibbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660754","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=660754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}