{"id":148843,"date":"2025-08-15T21:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T21:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/148843\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T21:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T21:38:13","slug":"car-chief-ejected-by-nascar-after-a-j-allmendinger-fails-inspection-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/148843\/","title":{"rendered":"Car chief ejected by NASCAR after A.J. Allmendinger fails inspection twice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/aj-allmendinger\/1713\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A.J. Allmendinger<\/a>&#8216;s No. 16 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/team\/kaulig-racing\/7994\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kaulig Racing<\/a> Chevrolet started the weekend off on the wrong foot, failing pre-qualifying inspection twice.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the team have lost its pit stall selection for the race, which means they will get whatever pit stall is left after the other 38 teams make their choice. Car\u00a0chief Jaron Antley has also been ejected for the remainder of this race weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Allmendinger can still qualify, and won&#8217;t face any in-race penalties.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/aj-allmendinger-kaulig-racing-.jpg\" alt=\"AJ Allmendinger, Kaulig Racing Chevrolet\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">AJ Allmendinger, Kaulig Racing Chevrolet<\/p>\n<p class=\"photographer\">Photo by: Meg Oliphant \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Kaulig Racing suffered similar penalties earlier this year at Nashville. However, that came after NASCAR caught the team making unapproved adjustments.<\/p>\n<p>With two races to go until the NASCAR Cup playoffs, Kaulig Racing is still trying to get both of their cars into the postseason fight. Allmendinger, along with teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/ty-dillon\/17046\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ty Dillon<\/a>, are facing a must-win situation.<\/p>\n<p>Allmendinger is currently 18th in the championship standings, and while he has three past wins in the Cup Series, all of those came on road courses. The series will be on ovals until the NASCAR Cup Playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:<\/p>\n<p>In this article<\/p>\n<p>Be the first to know and subscribe for real-time news email updates on these topics<\/p>\n<p>    Subscribe to news alerts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A.J. Allmendinger&#8216;s No. 16 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet started the weekend off on the wrong foot, failing pre-qualifying inspection&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":148844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[87653,1406,1420,16972,84962,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-148843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-car-chief-ejected-by-nascar-after-a-j-allmendinger-fails-inspection-twice","9":"tag-nascar","10":"tag-nascar-cup","11":"tag-richmond","12":"tag-richmond-international-raceway","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115034948238234992","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}