{"id":17207,"date":"2015-11-03T18:09:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T23:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=17207"},"modified":"2015-11-03T18:10:20","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T23:10:20","slug":"nascar-releases-statement-on-matt-kenseth-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2015\/11\/03\/nascar-releases-statement-on-matt-kenseth-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR releases statement on Matt Kenseth penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12168\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12168\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12168\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/03\/mattkenseth.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/03\/mattkenseth.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/03\/mattkenseth-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>NASCAR has released the following information about their suspension of\u00a0Matt Kenseth:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Matt Kenseth , the driver of the #20 car, has been penalized for an infraction that occurred during the Nov. 1 race at Martinsville Speedway. This is a Behavioral Penalty (Sections 12.1, 12.8). Kenseth has been suspended from NASCAR through the completion of the next two NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship events and placed on NASCAR probation for a six-month period following issuance of the penalty notice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Based upon our extensive review, we have concluded that the No. 20 car driver, who is no longer in the Chase, intentionally wrecked the No. 22 car driver, a Chase-eligible competitor who was leading the race at the time,&#8221;said Steve O&#8217;Donnell, NASCAR executive vice president and chief racing development officer. &#8220;The 20 car was nine laps down, and eliminated the #22 car&#8217;s opportunity to continue to compete in the race.<br \/>\n&#8220;Additionally, we factored aspects of safety into our decision, and also the fact that the new Chase elimination format puts a premium on each and every race. These actions have no place in NASCAR.&#8221;<br \/>\nDanica Patrick, the driver of the #10 car, has been penalized for an infraction that also took place during the Nov. 1 race at Martinsville Speedway. This is a Behavioral Penalty (Sections 12.1, 12.8). Patrick has been fined $50,000, assessed with the loss of 25 series championship driver points and placed on NASCAR probation through Dec. 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASCAR has released the following information about their suspension of\u00a0Matt Kenseth: Matt Kenseth , the driver of the #20 car, has been penalized for an infraction that occurred during the Nov. 1 race at Martinsville Speedway. This is a Behavioral Penalty (Sections 12.1, 12.8). Kenseth has been suspended from NASCAR through the completion of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-17207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17207"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=17207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}