{"id":861273,"date":"2026-08-17T11:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/861273\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T11:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:50:14","slug":"nascar-sends-4-cars-for-testing-after-richmond-inspection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/861273\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Sends 4 Cars for Testing After Richmond Inspection"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASCAR\u2019s<\/a> post-race inspection is complete following Saturday night\u2019s Cup Series race at Richmond Raceway, but the sanctioning body\u2019s work isn\u2019t finished with four cars.<\/p>\n

NASCAR announced Sunday that the cars of Austin Cindric, Chase Elliott, Christopher Bell and Shane van Gisbergen will return to the NASCAR Research & Development Center for engine dyno testing.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Joey Logano\u2019s race-winning No. 22 Team Penske Ford cleared inspection without issue, making his Cook Out 400 victory official.<\/p>\n

There is no indication at this point that NASCAR found anything improper with the four cars selected for additional testing.<\/p>\n

NASCAR Sends Cindric, Elliott, Bell and van Gisbergen Cars to R&D Center<\/p>\n

The four cars NASCAR selected for engine dyno testing are:<\/p>\n

No. 2 Team Penske Ford \u2014 Austin Cindric<\/p>\n

No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet \u2014 Chase Elliott<\/p>\n

No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota \u2014 Christopher Bell<\/p>\n

No. 97 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet \u2014 Shane van Gisbergen<\/p>\n

Elliott\u2019s No. 9 and Bell\u2019s No. 20 are also returning to the R&D Center for additional inspection.<\/p>\n

The distinction is important. NASCAR did not announce a rules violation involving any of the four cars, nor did it say they failed the initial post-race inspection. Additional R&D Center inspections and engine dyno testing give NASCAR an opportunity to conduct a more extensive examination than what takes place at the track.<\/p>\n

The four drivers represented a wide range of results at Richmond.<\/p>\n

Cindric delivered one of the night\u2019s biggest charges, climbing from 23rd on the starting grid to finish third. Elliott finished fifth after starting 13th, while Bell crossed the line seventh.<\/p>\n

Van Gisbergen, meanwhile, started 31st and finished 14th, a result that helped him maintain the 16th and final position in the Cup Series standings<\/a> with two regular-season races remaining.<\/p>\n

Joey Logano\u2019s Richmond Victory Is Official<\/p>\n

While four cars have more testing ahead, there was no such uncertainty surrounding the race winner.<\/p>\n

Logano\u2019s No. 22 Ford passed post-race inspection without issue, officially securing his second victory<\/a> of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n

Logano and Chase Briscoe emerged as the dominant contenders during the 400-lap race. Briscoe led a race-high 171 laps, but Logano took control around the final round of pit stops and never gave the position back.<\/p>\n

The Team Penske driver led 95 laps and beat Briscoe to the checkered flag by 0.392 seconds.<\/p>\n

Cindric finished third, giving Team Penske two of the top-three positions, while Denny Hamlin and Elliott completed the top five. Kyle Larson, Bell, Josh Berry, William Byron and Alex Bowman rounded out the top 10.<\/p>\n

The victory also continued Logano\u2019s rapid climb after a difficult start to the season. He has now won twice in the last four races and jumped four positions to ninth in the Cup Series standings after Richmond.<\/p>\n

NASCAR now heads to<\/a> New Hampshire Motor Speedway for the penultimate race of the regular season before the field travels to Daytona International Speedway for the finale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR\u2019s post-race inspection is complete following Saturday night\u2019s Cup Series race at Richmond Raceway, but the sanctioning body\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":861274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-861273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861273","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=861273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}