.TeamHendrick vice president of competition Chad Knaus addressed the media on Friday, defending HMS and reacting to this week's penalties from NASCAR. 🗣️'It's terrible situation, not only for us, but for the industry.'
Hendrick Motorsports officials claim issues with new spec parts for the 2023 NASCAR Cup season have led to the “terrible situation” it finds itself in but believe the organization can weather the storm.Cup teams were hit with significant penalties earlier this week from NASCAR for unapproved modifications made to Next Gen car parts which originated from a single-source supplier.
The penalties included $100,000 fines for all four crew chiefs and four-race suspensions, loss of 100 driver and owner points and 10 playoff points for each team.Chad Knaus, HMS’ vice president of competition, said the louvers were among the newly designed spec parts for the 2023 season but there have been discrepancies in what they thought they would receive and what the teams actually received.
“Through a tremendous amount of back-and-forth with NASCAR and the OEM and the teams there’s been conversations about whether we can clean up the parts, not clean up the parts and it’s changed quite honestly every couple weeks. Knaus said HMS hasn’t decided which “angle” it will focus on in its appeal but a statement released by the organization on Wednesday touched on three areas – louvers provided by the supplier do not match the design submitted by the manufacturer and approved by NASCAR; “inconsistent and unclear communication by the sanctioning body” related to the issue with louvers; and recent comparable penalties issued by NASCAR have arisen from post-race inspection rather than a “voluntary inspection” like...
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