NASCAR officials have issued two penalties after the weekend\u2019s events at the Sonoma Raceway, they announced on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n
The penalties both stemmed from loose lug nut violations in the Xfinity Series.<\/p>\n
Austin Hill<\/strong>\u2018s No. 21 Richard Childress Racing Chevroley and Ryan Sieg<\/strong>\u2018s No. 39 Ford were each found with one unsecured lug nut, a violation of section 8.8.10.4a, dealing with tires and wheels.<\/p>\n As a result of the two penalty infractions, the respective crew chiefs Andy Street<\/strong> (Austin Hill) and Matt Noyce<\/strong> (Ryan Sieg) were each fined $5,000. That was the extent of the NASCAR penalties from the weekend at Sonoma.<\/p>\n The Xfinity Series is scheduled to return to Iowa Speedway for the first time since 2019 on Saturday, with a Hy-Vee Perks 250 race scheduled.<\/p>\n NASCAR<\/a><\/strong> Cup Series viewership this season on FOX<\/em> and FS1<\/em> was up year-over-year despite suffering a weather-affected Daytona 500, the network announced<\/a> in a press release on Tuesday.<\/p>\n It\u2019s the first time since 2001, the first year in which FOX<\/em> began to air races, that the network has reported a year-over-year viewership increase<\/strong><\/a> despite having a rain-postponed Great American Race. In total, viewership was up 1% (3.369 million viewers) from the 2023 season (3.338 million viewers).<\/p>\n Excluding the Daytona 500, which took place on Monday instead of Sunday, the nine Cup Series races on FOX<\/em> averaged 3.773 million viewers, up 4% from the year prior. The six Cup Series races on FS1<\/em> averaged 2.389 million viewers, a 13% increase from 2023.<\/p>\n The 2024 campaign was the first year FOX<\/em>\u2018s lead broadcast booth included Kevin Harvick<\/strong> alongside Mike Joy<\/strong> and Clint Bowyer<\/strong>. Harvick joined the booth after retiring from full-time NASCAR competition following the 2023 season.<\/p>\n \u201cMy job is to have people say at the end of the day, \u2018Boy, Kevin Harvick really gave me everything I needed to know about this race and Clint Bowyer really entertained me.\u2019 And if we can do that, then I feel it\u2019s been successful. I love what I do,\u201d Joy recently said<\/a>. \u201cI love the people I work with, and I\u2019d like to keep doing it as long as they feel that I can contribute enough for us to have a first-class telecast.\u201d<\/p>\n On3\u2019s Nick Geddes also contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n The post NASCAR issues two penalties after Sonoma Raceway<\/a> appeared first on On3<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NASCAR officials have issued two penalties after the weekend\u2019s events at the Sonoma Raceway, they…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55692,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55662\/revisions\/55692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}NASCAR posts viewership increase on FOX, FS1<\/h2>\n