{"id":214264,"date":"2025-09-10T01:23:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T01:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/214264\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T01:23:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T01:23:19","slug":"nascar-penalty-report-released-after-gateway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/214264\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR penalty report released after Gateway"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NASCAR<\/a><\/strong> penalty report from the weekend at Gateway is out. It\u2019s not particularly juicy.<\/p>\n

Only one penalty was handed out stemming from the racing over the weekend in St. Louis. It came about in the Xfinity Series.<\/p>\n

Jesse Love<\/strong>\u2018s No. 2 team was fined $5,000 for a violation of Section 8.8.10.4a of the NASCAR Rule Book \u2014 having a missing lug nut at the conclusion of the race at World Wide Technology Raceway. That\u2019s a pretty benign penalty, as things go.<\/p>\n

Denny Hamlin takes NASCAR Cup Series win<\/p>\n

Denny Hamlin<\/strong> bested his teammate Chase Briscoe<\/strong> at Gateway this past weekend in the Cup Series. That marked his fifth win of the season and the 59th of his NASCAR Cup Series career.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t always a sure thing that Hamlin would reach Victory Lane, but a couple of key late-race decisions put him in position for another checkered flag. On the latest episode of his\u00a0Actions Detrimental<\/a>\u00a0podcast, Hamlin broke down his performance and explained why he wasn\u2019t worried about Briscoe beating him at Gateway.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo the lead was me and the No. 22. We pit, we come out, the No. 19 took two, so he jumped us. I\u2019m racing the crap out of the No. 19. You see us kind of go \u2014 we knew that was for the lead at that moment. I knew that that was important. I also knew it was really important to pass him right then \u2014 not five laps from now. I needed to get him right as soon as I could. Like I said, the first 10 laps on tires seemed like was the most benefit. After that, they just leveled out. So, I was very fortunate to pass him,\u201d Hamlin explained<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen, the next corner, the caution came out. That allowed me to take now the front row. I raced the No. 6 who\u2019s got, you know \u2014 their tires are shit. So, I\u2019m able to clear there, and it\u2019s bosses from that point. \u2026 I thought I had enough speed over (Briscoe) to be able to do it. I mean, he was putting up a great fight \u2014 but I thought it was inevitable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamlin got the job done, leaving Briscoe to settle for second behind his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate. Afterward, the veteran driver was candid about his career outlook<\/strong><\/a> and what still motivates him moving forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always been about number of races,\u201d Hamlin stated<\/a>, alluding to a championship not being the reason he\u2019d stay behind the wheel. \u201cThe only one I thought about was this year and the Daytona 500, thinking that probably only going to do this twice more. Brickyards, right? I haven\u2019t won the freaking Brickyard. I\u2019m going to have two more shots at it, and that\u2019s it, to round this thing out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s certain races that I do have countdowns for. Championships isn\u2019t one of \u2019em. Obviously, it\u2019s well-documented that I want to get the wins, and I feel like that will carry its weight long after. When you compare me to someone that\u2019s maybe got one or two, maybe three championships, and half the wins, I don\u2019t think that person\u2019s better than I am.\u201d<\/p>\n

On3\u2019s Steve Samra also contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NASCAR penalty report from the weekend at Gateway is out. It\u2019s not particularly juicy. Only one penalty…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":214265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-214264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-nascar","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115177390364469742","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214264","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=214264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}