KANSAS CITY, Kansas - Six Cup teams, including playoff contenders Chase Elliott and Jamie McMurray, will each miss 15 minutes of today’s final practice session at Kansas Speedway because of inspection issues, NASCAR announced.
Three teams were penalized 15 minutes in Saturday morning’s first practice - Derrike Cope, Landon Cassill and AJ Allmendinger. Each were penalized for being late to qualifying inspection Friday.
Teams penalized 15 minutes in final Cup practice will be Elliott, McMurray, Cope, Trevor Bayne, Paul Menard and Aric Almirola.
Bayne, Elliott and Almirola were penalized for failing qualifying/race inspection twice at Talladega.
Cope, McMurray and Menard were penalized for failing qualfiying qualifying inspection twice at Kansas.
Final Cup practice is scheduled from 1:30 - 2:20 p.m. ET on NBCSN.