NASCAR overhauls its flawed appeals process.
NASCAR has made a few major changes to its appeals process, altering how members of the National Motorsport Appeals Panel can adjust point penalties in rulings and adding a stipulation that the series can choose to publish the reasoning behind such adjustments.
Under these new rules, panelists hearing specific appeals can only adjust a penalty within the ranges assigned by NASCAR according to the severity of the infraction.
than a similar appeal from Hendrick Motorsports the week before. In that case, the substantial point penalties against four separate Hendrick Motorsports teams were eliminated while Kaulig's lone penalized car received a mere reduction.
NASCAR now also has the ability to share the reasoning behind an alteration to a penalty. While this is not the same as the absolute transparency that would come with every single decision being guaranteed to come with a summary of reasoning, it is at least an improvement over the past system.
Shortly before these changes were announced, two Hendrick Motorsports cars taken back to NASCAR R&D were assessed"L1" penalties for greenhouse modifications. Since this ruling came before the rule adjustment,
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