{"id":838989,"date":"2026-07-31T21:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T21:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/838989\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T21:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T21:28:09","slug":"nascar-penalizes-carl-longs-truck-team-leaving-mbm-motorsports-with-negative-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/838989\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR penalizes Carl Long&#8217;s Truck team, leaving MBM Motorsports with negative points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost a week after the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at IRP, NASCAR has issued penalties to the No. 69 MBM Motorsports team, which fielded a Ram for the first time last weekend in Indianapolis. Jonathan Shafer drove the No. 69 Ram for MBM, but the team actually failed to qualify for the race.<\/p>\n<p>The issue was found in pre-qualifying inspection, involving the shifter boot and violating Sections 14.2.3.6 A &amp; B of the NASCAR Rule Book. That part of the rule book mentions how teams cannot use shifter boots that were manufactured more than two years prior, and that the shifter must have a specific\u00a0safety certification label used by NASCAR.<\/p>\n<p>MBM Motorsports, owned by Carl Long, was fined $5,000, but also docked both 25 driver and owner points.<\/p>\n<p>This leaves the part-time entry at negative 14 points in the owner standings, and\u00a0Shafer at negative 25 points in the driver standings as he has not started a race yet this year. Shafer has three DNQs during the 2026 season, all with MBM.<\/p>\n<p>There were no other penalties in this week&#8217;s report.<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:<\/p>\n<p>            We want your opinion!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our 5 minute survey.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Motorsport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost a week after the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at IRP, NASCAR has issued penalties to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,3844,292353,19913,634,292352,18242,82],"class_list":["post-838989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-indianapolis","tag-leaving-mbm-motorsports-with-negative-points","tag-lucas-oil-raceway","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-penalizes-carl-longs-truck-team","tag-nascar-truck","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838989","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=838989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}