Joey Logano’s homemade glove just cost him $10,000.
The Team Penske driver was fined that amount for using an illegal driving glove during qualifying for the Ambetter Health 400 at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
The glove had been modified with a webbing like a baseball mitt between the thumb and forefinger to make its surface area larger when the fingers were spread.
Logano used it to cover part of the space between the window frame and safety netting in an attempt to gain an aerodynamic advantage.
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Logano was found in violation of using equipment that wasn’t within regulations that primarily target fire safety, but was not sanctioned for the act of putting his hand by the window, which is commonplace on restrictor plate tracks.
“If you take exactly what happened at the racetrack from a competition perspective and trying to enhance the performance on the racetrack, we see time and time again at superspeedways and other events where drivers stick their hand out the window,†NASCAR senior vice president of competition Elton Sawyer said on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
“That’s not something that we’ve been all that alarmed about. When you take it to the level that you have modified one of the safety equipment, gloves in particular and then using that. So the penalty at the racetrack was based off that.”
Logano started the race from the back of the pack and had to perform a drive-through penalty after the start.
Denny Hamlin said during his “Actions Detrimental” podcast on Monday that he thinks someone from another team saw what Logano was up to and reported it to NASCAR.
Stewart-Haas drivers Noah Gragson and Ryan Preece were penalized far more severely than Logano beacuse their cars had illegal roof air deflectors.
Both were docked 35 points, which put Preece at zero and Gragson at negative six after two races.
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