Daytona Beach, FL (AHN) – Kurt Busch might be a former NASCAR NEXTEL Cup champion, but that doesn’t mean that the folks at NASCAR are any kindlier or gentler to the former champion.
On Friday NASCAR penalized Busch 100 championship driver points, fined him $100,000 and placed him on NASCAR probation the rest of the year.
It is the third $100,000 fine passed out by NASCAR this season.
Tony Eury Jr. received that type of fine and his driver, Dale Earnhardt Jr., was penalized 100 points for a bracket infraction at Darlington and former Michael Waltrip crew chief Dave Hyder got a $100,000 fine while Waltrip was penalized 100 points at Daytona for and illegal substance found in the engine.
Busch received his penalty following a pit road incident with Tony Stewart at Dover last week. Busch and Stewart tangled on the track, which ended up crashing Busch, who promptly retaliated by bumping Stewart’s car on pit road.
NASCAR found Busch in violation of Section 12-4-A (actions detrimental to stock car racing – reckless driving; endangering a crew member on pit road) of the 2007 NASCAR rule book.
Busch’s car owner Roger Penske was also penalized 100 championship owner points due to Busch’s actions.
