{"id":89926,"date":"2025-08-23T00:04:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T00:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/89926\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T00:04:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T00:04:05","slug":"nascar-ejects-crew-chief-rudy-fugle-for-inspection-violation-at-daytona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/89926\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR ejects crew chief Rudy Fugle for inspection violation at Daytona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. \u2014 NASCAR ejected crew chief Rudy Fugle for a violation after William Byron\u2019s car had passed inspection Friday at Daytona International Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>Byron, who clinched the regular season championship last weekend at Richmond, will start at the rear of the field Saturday night. He\u2019ll have to perform a stop-and-go penalty after taking the green flag. The team also lost pit stall selection along with Fugle being ejected from the event. <\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"Link\" aria-label=\"How to watch Saturday\u2019s Cup race at Daytona: Start time, TV info and weather\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nascar\/news\/how-to-watch-saturdays-cup-race-at-daytona-start-time-tv-info-and-weather-august-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"NASCAR: Coke Zero Sugar 400\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755907445_234_\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 2025 regular season will conclude, and the playoff field will be set at the World Center of Racing.<\/p>\n<p>NASCAR stated that Byron\u2019s team was observed making an unapproved adjustment to the car\u2019s splitter after having passed inspection on the second attempt. The struts were reinstalled, and the car was rerun over the (Underbody Scanning Station) and failed due to the adjustment. <\/p>\n<p>NASCAR stated Byron and his team will face no more penalties for the violation.<\/p>\n<p>NASCAR also announced that the No. 78 of BJ McLeod failed inspection twice. Car chief Lee Lesile was ejected. The team also lost pit stall selection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. \u2014 NASCAR ejected crew chief Rudy Fugle for a violation after William Byron\u2019s car had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-89926","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-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89926","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=89926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}