Austin Dillon is the latest NASCAR driver to receive a points penalty because of illegal car modifications.
NASCAR announced Wednesday that Dillon would be penalized 60 points and for what it said was an illegal underwing assembly. Dillon also loses five playoff points if he qualifies for the postseason and his crew chief Keith Rodden was fined $75,000 and suspended for two races.
The penalty drops Dillon from 21st in the points standings to 29th and drops his points total to 122 through nine races. Dillon scored 25 points and finished 12th on Sunday at Martinsville. The infraction was found after Dillon’s car was taken to NASCAR’s R&D Center after the race for further evaluation.
Dillon has just two top-10 finishes so far in 2023. He was ninth in the second race of the season at Auto Club Speedway and was third at the Bristol dirt race. The penalty means Dillon will likely have to win a race over the next 17 regular-season races to make the postseason for the second consecutive year.
His Richard Childress Racing team could choose to appeal the penalty but it won’t have the chance to get its points penalty overturned even if an appeals panel rules that Dillon’s No. 3 team committed an infraction.
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