The No. 24 team will receive a penalty as it prepares for the regular-season finale at Daytona International Speedway. William Byron will lose two crew members to suspensions.
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The reason for the penalty is a lost wheel with 69 laps remaining in Sunday's race, one that sent the No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet spinning hard into the outside wall.
The left-rear wheel detached as Byron raced in the fourth position. It then bounced down the track toward the pit road wall as Byron drove his damaged car back to pit road.
BYRON LOSES A WHEEL!! 🛞🫣 pic.twitter.com/7UsDhTF61C
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The odd thing about the lost wheel is that it occurred very late in a run. Byron had made a pit stop just before the crash, but his team only changed the right-side tires. They did not change the lefts.
A lost wheel means that Byron will lose two members for the next two weeks as they serve suspensions. The likely options are jackman Allen Holman and rear-tire changer Orane Ossowski.
The two crew members will miss the regular-season finale at Daytona International Speedway, and they will miss the Chase opener at Darlington Raceway. They will be eligible to return for World Wide Technology Raceway on Sept. 13.
Since the wheel came off on the track, Byron had to serve an in-race penalty. Officials held him on pit road for two laps, which dropped him to four laps behind the leaders. This marked a major disruption to a day in which he had led 25 laps and scored seven stage points.
Suspensions aside, the No. 24 team and Byron also ensured that they will face a significant hurdle at the start of the Chase. They will start the final 10-race stretch of the season outside of the top 10.
This means that the No. 24 team will have to pull off a Herculean Chase run in order to contend for a championship.
