NASCAR has penalized crew members of the #24 team of Jeff Gordon and the #5 team of Kasey Kahne at Hendrick Motorsports following Sunday's fight after the race at Texas, that involved Gordon, Brad Keselowski and to a lesser extent Kevin Harvick. Keselowski, the driver of the #2 Ford at Team Penske, and his crew did not receive any penalties probably because Gordon was considered to be the instigator in the fight.
Gordon's crew chief Alan Gustafson and Kahne's crew chief Kenny Francis have each been fined $50,000 and put on probation for the next six Sprint Cup points races. This means that in addition to Phoenix and Homestead in the final two weeks of this season, their probations will carry over to 2015 and continue at Daytona, Atlanta, Las Vegas and Phoenix in February and March. Also, Kahne crew member Jeremy Fuller and Gordon crew members Dwayne Doucette and Jason Ingle have been fined $25,000 and suspended through the Phoenix race in March, while another Gordon crew member, Dean Mozingo, has been fined $10,000 and suspended until after the Daytona 500 in February.
Gordon was previously in a fight with Jeff Burton in the 2010 fall race at Texas, and in a bigger fight with Clint Bowyer in the fall Phoenix race in 2012, both following crashes. This is why many people will be thinking of the Gordon-Bowyer incident at Phoenix next week, and expecting a crazy race in general since along with the aftermath of the Gordon-Keselowski fight, four drivers will be eliminated and the last four will make one last run for the championship at Homestead the following week.
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