Truck Series penalty: Ty Majeski fined: UPDATES

11/12/2024 22:00

UPDATE 2:  The National Motorsports Appeals Panel today heard and considered an appeal of a behavior penalty issued on November 5, 2024 to driver Ty Majeski in the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series.

The penalty concerns the following sections of the 2024 NASCAR Rule Book: Sections 4.4.A NASCAR Member Code of Conduct. The penalty issued was a $12,500 fine to the driver.

Upon hearing the testimony, the decisions of the National Motorsports Appeals Panel are:

1. That the Appellant violated the Rule(s) set forth in the Penalty Notice.
2. That the Panel affirms and upholds the original Penalty assessed by NASCAR.

In reaching the above decision, the panel provided the following explanation: "Driver failed to meet contractual agreement with NASCAR. One of the most, if not most, important media obligations of the entire season."

The Appeals Panel members for this hearing:

• Mr. Hunter Nickell
• Ms. Cathy Rice
• Mr. Lake Speed

The Appellant has the right to appeal the decision of the National Motorsports Appeals Panel to the National Motorsports Final Appeals Officer in accordance with the NASCAR Rule Book.

— NASCAR —

UPDATE 11-7-2024: Ty Majeski said he will appeal the $12,500 fine for missing Champ 4 production day Tuesday:

YOU WERE FINED $12,500.  WHAT HAS THE WEEK BEEN LIKE?  "It‘s obviously been a whirlwind for sure.  Like I said, I‘m really focused on the race Friday night.  I felt like I needed to do my duty as a U.S. citizen to vote.  My team owners and I, Duke, Rhonda and Allison, we all made the decision to exercise that right."

WHERE DID YOU VOTE?  "Wisconsin."

THE TUESDAY CONTENT DAY WAS NEW.  WAS IT SOMETHING YOU WERE AWARE OF AND HAD CONTACT WITH NASCAR AHEAD OF TIME?  "Yeah, we certainly knew about it.  I didn‘t specifically have much communication with NASCAR prior.  I let everybody internally at ThorSport handle those conversations prior to not being there on Tuesday, so I feel like they knew our position and it‘s kind of unprecedented.  This has never happened before.  Election Day, everyone knew it was Election Day for a long time.  It‘s unfortunate circumstances for everybody.  I don‘t think anybody wants to be put in that position, but we have to have a free country to race in and that‘s just part of being a U.S. citizen, so I wanted to exercise that right.  I didn‘t know I was gonna in the Championship 4 until a few days prior.  I‘ve always in my whole life been an election day vote guy.  I‘ve never done an absentee ballot.  I wanted to make sure my vote was counted."

WILL YOU APPEAL?  "That is our intent, yes."

— Ford Performance —

Original post 11-5-24: NASCAR announced that Truck Series driver Ty Majeski was fined $12,500 for missing Championship media day on Tuesday.