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NASCAR issues severe penalties to Hendrick Motorsports

NASCAR severely penalized Hendrick Motorsports on Tuesday for issues with the hood louvers that was discovered on all four Hendrick cars last weekend at Phoenix Raceway.

NASCAR issued the following penalties: 

Docked Alex Bowman, Kyle Larson and William Byron 100 points and also penalized them 10 playoff points each.

Suspended crew chiefs Cliff Daniels, Alan Gustafson, Rudy Fugle and Blake Harris four races each. NASCAR also fined each $100,000.

NASCAR penalized each of the four Hendrick team 100 owner points and 10 playoff points.

NASCAR did not penalize Josh Berry any points because he does not earn any points in the Cup Series. He earns points in the Xfinity Series. Chase Elliott is not penalized because he was not driving the No. 9 car when the infraction was discovered.

NASCAR confiscated the hood louvers (air vents) from all four Hendrick cars after Friday’s practice at Phoenix Raceway. Series officials discovered a potential issue before practice, allowed the Hendrick teams to run the session, and then took the parts afterward.

The hood louvers are single-sourced parts. 

“It was obvious to us that these parts had been modified in an area that wasn’t approved,” said Elton Sawyer, NASCAR senior vice president of competition. “This is a consistent penalty with what we went through last year. … We felt like to keep the garage on a level playing field and the competition level where it needs to be, all the dialogue that went around this car last year, working with the owners on what the deterrent model should be, we were put in a position where we felt there was no other way but to write a penalty.”

While teams can have approval to make minor adjustments on some single-source parts, Sawyer said the area with the hood

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