Joey Logano agrees with historic NASCAR penalty on Chase Briscoe's No. 14 team

Joey Logano was in favor of NASCAR’s decision to hand down a significant punishment to the No. 14 Stewart-Haas Racing team of Chase Briscoe.

In light of the L3 penalty handed down last week to the No. 14 team, @joeylogano thinks the penalty 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 be as severe as it is for messing with the Next Gen car.

💭 “When you blatantly cheat, that’s when there’s gotta be a real penalty.”

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“As close as all the cars are, if you find a competitive advantage in a way that is breaking a rule, the advantage is larger now than ever,” Logano said on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio Wednesday. “… We’re not trying to make up three tenths of a second anymore. We’re trying to figure how to find a half a tenth, and little things do that. There’s pushing the line where there’s people being aggressive with maybe the underfloor or the typical roll through tech on Friday’s when we get there type of stuff. But, then there’s the stuff that is black and white that you can’t mess with.

“Part numbers and the parts that are specific for a certain thing on the car that has to be there. If it’s black and white in the rulebook, you gotta enforce that one hardcore. It’s one thing missing a measurement by a few thousands of an inch. That’s just kind of pushing it to the edge and you went a little too far. Those guys don’t get a big penalty.

“Sometimes you lose your pit stall selection, you may have to start in the rear [of the field], have a pass through or whatever. But, when you blatantly cheat, that’s when there’s gotta be a real penalty.

Joey Logano agrees with NASCAR’s handling of illegal adjustments to Next Gen car

NASCAR punished the No. 14 team for counterfeiting a Next Gen part during the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. NASCAR issued an L3-level penalty, the most severe punishment under the sanctioning body’s deterrence system. The penalty is a loss of 120 driver and owner points and 25 NASCAR playoff points. Additionally, it’s a six-race suspension plus a $250,000 fine for crew chief Johnny Klausmeier.

Elton Sawyer, senior vice president of competition, said that NASCAR has been handing down large penalties and fines/suspensions in an effort to steer teams away from designing their own parts on the Next Gen car.

“The culture that was in our garage and our race teams shops on the Gen 6 car was more of a manufacturing facility. The Next Gen car – that’s not the business model,” Sawyer said, via Motorsport. “The race teams – and they’re doing a better job, but we still have a lot of work to do. They have to change that culture within the walls of the race shop.”