No. 48 Sprint Cup team loses practice time for Kansas – Nascar

The No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports team of Jimmie Johnson will lose 15 minutes of practice time this week at Kansas Speedway after NASCAR posted penalties coming out of Talladega weekend.

The No. 48 team failed template inspection three times during pre-race for Sunday’s GEICO 500.

NASCAR also gave written warnings to the No. 44 Richard Petty Motorsports team of Brian Scott and the No. 98 Premium Motorsports team of Cole Whitt, each for two failed pre-race inspections.

In the XFINITY Series, NASCAR docked the No. 3 Richard Childress Racing team of Ty Dillon 15 minutes of practice time for failing laser inspection three times.

The Nos. 0 (Garrett Smithley), 4 (Ross Chastain), 28 (Dakoda Armstrong), 43 (Jeb Burton), 70 (Derrike Cope) and 85 (Bobby Gerhart) teams all received written warnings for failing laser inspection twice.