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Slugger Labbe suspended, fined
- Updated: March 26, 2015
NASCAR suspended Richard Childress Racing crew chief Slugger Labbe for three races for an illegal truck trailing arm it confiscated from the No. 33 Sprint Cup Series car Friday at Auto Club Speedway.
Labbe also was fined $50,000. The discovery of the illegal part was made on opening-day inspection at Fontana, California.
Labbe was crew chief at the race for RCR driver Brian Scott. The 33 car officially was entered by Circle Sport Racing, a team owned by Joe Falk that works with RCR to field a car throughout the season for multiple drivers. Labbe is often the crew chief when an RCR driver is behind the wheel.
The trailing arm, a suspension piece, was made of aluminum instead of the required magnetic steel, was not bolted on correctly and failed to meet other specifications, NASCAR said in a statement Wednesday.
Because Scott has declared to earn points in the Xfinity Series, he was not penalized in the Sprint Cup points system. The team was docked 25 points, dropping it from 30th to 34th in the owner standings. Labbe also was put on probation through the end of the season.
NASCAR also announced an Xfinity Series penalty Wednesday, suspending pit-crew member Mark Armstrong through April 21 and fining him $1,500 for not following a directive from track security Saturday at the track.
Armstrong and four other crew members for the car driven by TriStar Motorsports driver Blake Koch were put on probation through the end of the season. Koch’s pit crew, according to TriStar, was contracted from Stewart-Haas Racing.
Armstrong tweeted that he took full responsibility for his actions, that he sped into the race track and parked in the wrong lot.
