UPDATE II (10-12-2022): Stewart-Haas Racing has dropped its appeal of Rodney Childers’ four-race suspension and 100 points to the No. 4 team due to modifying the deck lid.
Childers will return to the pit box in the season finale at Phoenix.
Stewart-Haas Racing has rescinded its appeal to the Harvick penalties for the deck lid issue at R&D following Talladega.
— Bob Pockrass (@bobpockrass) October 12, 2022
UPDATE: Stewart-Haas Racing announced that they will appeal the penalty to the No. 4 team.
Team engineer Stephen Doran will serve as interim crew chief this weekend at Charlotte. If the team loses their appeal. Rodney Childers could still return at Phoenix so the team will not have him on the pit box this weekend.
ORIGINAL POST (10-5-2022): NASCAR officials issued L2-level penalties Wednesday to the No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford team for unapproved modification of a single-source part.
The infraction, which falls under the heading of Sections 14.1 (vehicle assembly) and 14.5 (body), resulted in a 100-point penalty for both driver Kevin Harvick and the No. 4 SHR team in their respective Cup Series points standings. Additionally, crew chief Rodney Childers was fined $100,000 and suspended from the next four Cup Series events.
AND:
Competition officials indefinitely suspended Andrew Abbott, crew chief for the No. 20 Young’s Motorsports team in the Camping World Truck Series, for violating the NASCAR Member Code of Conduct (Sections 4.3.A and 4.4). Officials indicated that “completion of NASCAR-mandated anger management training is a pre-requisite to reinstatement.”
— NASCAR.com —
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