NASCAR has issued penalties to Ryan Preece and the No. 60 team of RFK Racing after an incident involving Ty Gibbs at Texas Motor Speedway.
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The RFK Racing driver has lost 25 driver points for his actions at the track. He also received a $50,000 fine for violating Sections 4.3 and 4.4.A of the NASCAR Rule Book. This section covers wrecking or spinning another vehicle.
Preece appeared to hit Gibbs' rear bumper on Lap 101 of last weekend's Cup Series race at Texas, which Chase Elliot won. The No. 54 Toyota slammed into the outside SAFER barrier. Gibbs could not continue in the race.
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Preece said over the radio at the time that he felt he did not make contact with Gibbs. However, this incident occurred roughly 30 minutes after he had a self-described rant about the Joe Gibbs Racing driver.
"Alright when I get to that 54, I'm done with him," Preece said after the end of stage 1. (Expletive) idiot. That car is so (Expletive) fast, pisses me off.
"I can't stand when idiots like him have fast race cars where they can do stupid (Expletive) and get away with it. End of rant."
Preece later went on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio to further discuss the incident during an episode of Late Shift. As he told hosts Brad Gillie and Todd Gordon, he could have lifted entering Turn 3. He just chose not to.
"There are people that you know you can race with respect around and cut breaks to," Preece said. "Like I can think of multiple times yesterday that instead of putting another driver in a pretty tough spot, you make the decision not to do that.
"And I feel like I just grew up racing against people that I learned that lesson a long, long time ago, when I was a lot younger. And sometimes I question if those same lessons are learned by the time you get to Cup.
"So for me, it was more along the lines of he pretty much was very close to clear getting into 3, and I could lift, but I didn't.
"I was right there and I felt like he came down, and I was not going to cut him a break because in the past, him and I have had problems. So I've got a little bit of a short fuse with him and I, with how we're racing.
"And that was just one of those situations that, could I cut him a break? Probably could have, but I didn't. And ultimately, I didn't feel like I hit him. I felt like I stayed right on him, and he got loose, and from there on, unfortunately, he wrecked."
Another wreck occurred at Texas Motor Speedway, but it did not lead to a penalty. NASCAR chose not to penalize Kyle Busch after he turned right in the closing two laps and sent John Hunter Nemechek into the outside SAFER barrier. This wrecked the No. 42 Toyota.
