The #17 Sprint Cup team of Roush Fenway Racing has been penalized for rules infractions discovered following last Sunday's race at Homestead. It was a P3-level penalty that involved the confiscation of an unapproved rear suspension. While driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr. managed to avoid a 50-point penalty, his crew chief Mike Kelley has been fined $50,000 and is on probation from January 1 through June 30, including every Cup race from the Daytona Speedweeks events in February to just after the series' first of two annual road course trips in Sonoma, California on June 28. Car chief Patrick Magee is also on probation during the same period.
The Roush penalties are part of a number of middle to upper-level penalties handed out by NASCAR in the organization's top series in 2014. These have also included a P5-level penalty given to the #11 team at Joe Gibbs Racing resulting in the suspension of Denny Hamlin's crew chief Wesley Sherrill, who along with Hamlin, fellow JGR driver Matt Kenseth and other crew members were later involved in two separate scuffles with Team Penske's Brad Keselowski following the Chase race at Charlotte in October, as well as penalties given to the #5 and #24 teams at Hendrick Motorsports for another incident with Keselowski, this time with #24 driver Jeff Gordon. The #5's crew chief Kenny Francis was notably put on probation and has since been moved to another position at Hendrick, putting an end to his professional relationship with driver Kasey Kahne.
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