Following the Bush’s Beans 200 at Bristol Motor Speedway on Thursday, Sept. 16, David Gilliland Racing owner David Gilliland has been suspended and fined.
Gilliland performed non-compliant activities on pit road, according to ARCA, and violated Section 12-8.1 of the rulebook. He has been fined $1,500 and suspended for next weekend’s ARCA Menards Series race at Salem Speedway. He will also be placed on probation for the rest of the season.
ARCA did not release what specific activity Gilliland performed that resulted in his suspension.
During Thursday night’s event, DGR driver Thad Moffitt was involved in an incident with Venturini Motorsports driver Drew Dollar.
Yikes.@ThadMoffitt spins after contact with @DrewDollar00 ?@FS1 | @BMSupdates pic.twitter.com/cPyLK8gqLp
— ARCA Menards Series (@ARCA_Racing) September 17, 2021
The two drivers have had an ongoing rivalry throughout the 2021 season that has seen multiple incidents occur between the two at ARCA events.
Dalton Hopkins began writing for Frontstretch in April 2021. Currently, he is the lead writer for the weekly Thinkin' Out Loudcolumn, co-host of the Happy Hour podcast, and one of our lead reporters. Beforehand, he wrote for IMSA shortly after graduating from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 2019. Simultaneously, he also serves as a Captain in the US Army.
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