NASCAR penalizes Heim for Hocevar payback
Heim, driving the No. 11 TRICON Garage Toyota, develop into one amongst four drivers in contention for the Truck Sequence title final Friday.
In the closing laps, he cleanly passed Carson Hocevar for space and took preserve a watch on of the championship. Hocevar fought back and met the back of Heim. The Toyota spun while Hocevar carried on, falling back to the rear of the self-discipline.
Hocevar then broken-down afterwards, getting emotional and exhibiting remorse on the radio for the contact. The title fight in the raze came correct down to Grant Enfinger and Ben Rhodes while Heim struggled to assemble lost ground.
When he crossed paths with Hocevar again, there had been upright three laps left in the flee. He perceived to intentionally flip up the track on the exit of Turn 2, crashing himself and Hocevar, besides to collecting one other truck.
The flee develop into forced into time past law, and absolute chaos ensued.
Enfinger, who perceived to be on his come to capturing the title, lost out to Ben Rhodes in a flee that went on the self-discipline of 30 laps past the scheduled distance attributable to extra than one accidents and restarts.
Even supposing Heim denied that he intentionally wrecked Hocevar in his put up-flee interviews, NASCAR has since reviewed radio transmissions from the No. 11 crew at Phoenix and sure that Heim violated the Member Conduct pointers, particularly the next sections of the NASCAR rule book:
*Attempting to manipulate the results of the Urge or championship. *Wrecking or spinning one other automobile, whether or no longer or no longer that automobile is eradicated from Competitors as a outcome. *Any actions deemed to compromise the protection of an Tournament or in any other case pose a dreadful risk to the protection of Competitors, Officers, spectators, or others.
The consequence is a $12,500 beautiful and the lack of 25 driver facets. The penalty drops Heim from third to fourth in the final standings, in the back of Hocevar.
