Menard, RCR Fined Points, Cash and Suspensions, NASCAR

NASCAR driver Paul Menard at Texas Motor Speedway (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Seems teams are trying to skirt the rules of NASCAR.

Paul Menard, RCR team hit with points penalty, suspensions for illegal parts
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NASCAR penalized driver Paul Menard 25 points and suspended crew chief Slugger Labbe and two crewmen for six weeks for an illegally modified frame on the Richard Childress Racing No. 27 car used Sunday at Michigan International Speedway.

Menard, who has an outside shot to make the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, saw those chances grow even slimmer after Wednesday’s penalties, which came after NASCAR took his car for a random inspection at NASCAR’s research and development center following his ninth-place finish Sunday.

Read more at The Sporting News.

WUPN: Big penalties for team Childress.