{"id":21427,"date":"2019-06-18T17:43:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T21:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=21427"},"modified":"2019-06-18T17:43:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T21:43:33","slug":"johnny-sauter-suspended-one-week-still-eligible-agle-for-truck-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/06\/18\/johnny-sauter-suspended-one-week-still-eligible-agle-for-truck-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Sauter suspended one week, still eligible agle for truck title"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Johnny Sauter has been suspended by NASCAR for the upcoming Gander Outdoors Truck Series race at Gateway.<\/p>\n

Sauter intentionally wrecked Austin Hill under caution in Sunday’s M&M’s 200 at Iowa Speedway following on track contact between the two.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe look at the history of everything we\u2019ve done and react with the precedents we have set while tailoring it with the situation we have at hand,\u201d said Scott Miller, NASCAR senior vice president of competition, in a statement. \u201cIn this case, Johnny Sauter\u2019s actions certainly warranted being sat down for an event, but it felt a little too harsh to take him straight out of the championship. We think that we landed on what is fair and a deterrent.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

While NASCAR has not penalized Hill, Miller said the situation would be monitored further.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not completely done with him,\u201d Miller said. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t think that there is a penalty forthcoming for this. He\u2019s definitely placed himself under a microscope when it comes to behavior out there on the race track.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

ThorSpot is still deciding whether or not to appeal the penalty. No decision has been made to who would drive the No. 13 truck in Sauter’s absence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Johnny Sauter has been suspended by NASCAR for the upcoming Gander Outdoors Truck Series race at Gateway. Sauter intentionally wrecked Austin Hill under caution in Sunday’s M&M’s 200 at Iowa Speedway following on track contact between the two. \u201cWe look at the history of everything we\u2019ve done and react with the precedents we have set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,788],"tags":[1038,789,881,332,708],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar-truck-series","8":"category-news","9":"tag-austin-hill","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-iowa-speedway","12":"tag-johnny-sauter","13":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21427"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=21427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}