Two crew members from Austin Dillon‘s No. 3 Richard Childress Racing team have been suspended after a wheel came off the car following a pit stop in the NASCAR Cup Series race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway ROVAL, NASCAR announced Oct. 15.
The left-front tire came off as Dillon went around turn 4, bringing out the last caution of the day around lap 81.
Front tire changer Joshua Thomas and jackman Nicholas Covey are suspended for the next two races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Dillon finished 32nd in the race.
Other penalties announced this week were fines to four NASCAR Xfinity Series crew chiefs for a loose lug nut.
No. 7 crew chief James Pohlman, No. 8 crew chief Phillip Bell, No. 21 crew chief Andy Street and No. 81 crew chief Jeff Meendering were all fined $5,000.
Joy joined Frontstretch in 2019 as a NASCAR DraftKings writer, expanding to news and iRacing coverage in 2020. She's currently an assistant editor and involved with photos, social media and news editing. A California native, Joy was raised watching motorsports and started watching NASCAR extensively in 2001. She earned her B.A. degree in Liberal Studies at California State University Bakersfield in 2010.
Use the proper amount of lug nuts on a stock car and you want have that problem
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Funny thing about the lug nuts. I saw a T shirt yrs ago at the track. And the phrase on it was about the number of ‘nuts’ needed to win a race. I puzzled over that shirt for several races until I realized it was a dirty joke. My friends waited patiently for me to figure it out.
It looks like an IMSA wheel. NA$CAR rules IMSA as efficiently as they rule NA$CAR. But the wheel sure looks purtier than the steel wheel.