NASCAR announces penalties from Charlotte weekend

NASCAR has released its penalty report from the weekend at Charlotte Motor Speedway. There are a couple penalties of note.

Both penalties involved a driver losing a wheel on the track. In the Cup Series, Carl Long‘s No. 66 car lost a wheel and his team will have a tire changer and jackman suspended for two races. Daniel Dye will face the same penalty for the same infraction in the Xfinity Series.

There were no other penalties, according to a report from FOX Sports’ Bob Pockrass. All in all, a pretty clean weekend of racing at Charlotte.

Prime Video NASCAR broadcast a real success

Two NASCAR insiders shared their thoughts on Prime Video’s coverage of the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. On The Teardown podcast, Jeff Gluck and Jordan Bianchi of The Athletic praised Prime Video for its broadcast work on one of NASCAR’s biggest races of the year.

“People across my feed have just been raving,” Gluck said. “Even when NBC took over and everybody’s really excited about them coming in, I don’t know if I’ve ever seen my social media feed rave about a NASCAR broadcaster to that level. People were just thrilled with the product that they got from every facet, it seemed like.

“…It was such a high-quality product, and you could tell that they put a lot into it, and it was just really great. I also think it’s very important in a sense for NASCAR to see that the fans do like something and will all love something when it’s worth loving. There’s a narrative in NASCAR that the fans hate everything, they’re so cynical and they’ll complain about everything. There’s a lot of complaints, but when you see something like you saw with the Prime broadcast the other night, people just genuinely loved it.”

Bianchi also praised Prime Video in its NASCAR debut. “I thought they did a great job overall,” he said. ” I did see some criticisms and everything, but I think that largely it was very positive, overwhelmingly positive.

“It was a very professional broadcast. It is how a big-league sport should be handled and broadcasted. It’s really great to see that NASCAR has a post-race show. It’s been something that fans have kind of lamented for a long time. I know FOX and NBC have had shorter post-race shows in recent years. To have an extended one like this, where you bring on the winning driver and the owner and all these things really allowed you to tell your story.”

On3’s Brian Jones also contributed to this report.