On Saturday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Cup Collection managing director Brad Moran showcased the glove NASCAR confiscated at Atlanta from Logano, which featured webbing between every of the fingers, together with a big part between the thumb and index finger.
Logano – who had certified second – was despatched to the rear of the sector for Sunday’s race and needed to serve a pass-through penalty after taking the inexperienced flag. He additionally was handed a $10,000 advantageous this week for using gloves that weren’t SFI licensed.
Team Penske didn’t attraction.
“As you may see, the complete glove is wrapped. So, the explanation for that’s clearly you may block extra air,” Moran defined. “You understand the drivers do put their hand up in opposition to the (window internet) opening which we’ve by no means actually had a rule in opposition to it.
“This, clearly, goes one step additional and this turns into not solely a contest downside, it additionally turns into a security violation, as a result of that glove is now not SFI authorised. No matter what the fabric is product of, no matter who put it on there, it’s not as delivered.”
In Fox Sports activities video of Logano’s qualifying lap at Atlanta, he may be seen taking his left hand with the webbed glove up in opposition to the window netting a number of occasions.
Moran stated the problems with the glove had been found by a random security verify down by means of in-car cameras all through the race weekend. Due to the black color of the gloves, it made the webbing tough to find.
Glove of Joey Logano, Group Penske
Photograph by: Jim Utter
Rule adjustments wanted?
Requested if the glove’s discovery may immediate a rule change, Moran stated, “They’ve been doing it for many years, you realize, and it will get talked about. So, I wouldn’t sit right here and say it may not ever change, however as of proper now, we don’t (foresee a change).
“It’s very exhausting to regulate and we don’t inform the drivers the place their palms have to be once they’re qualifying.”
Moran stated he had by no means seen gloves modified to such an extent.
“For me, this can be a one-off,” he stated. “It’s fairly, you realize, fairly sensible I assume in a technique. Whether or not it’s been used up to now, we wouldn’t know that. We definitely have by no means caught it.”
Additionally Saturday, Moran displayed the roof deflectors that had been confiscated from Stewart-Haas Racing’s Nos. 10 and 41 Fords at Atlanta. Each groups misplaced 35 proprietor and driver factors for the infraction.
The deflectors had indentations added across the bolts which prevented them from mendacity flat on the automobile roof’s floor.