Michael McDowell faces multiple penalties after three inspection failures

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The play has gone sideways for the No. 71 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet of Michael McDowell, and not connected the track.

McDowell's car failed inspection 3 antithetic times, which means they person respective penalties coming their way.

First of all, the car main has been ejected for the remainder of the contention weekend. Secondly, they were not permitted to instrumentality portion successful qualifying, and volition commencement past (38th) successful Sunday's NASCAR Cup race.

However, it doesn't halt there. Once the greenish emblem flies, McDowell volition person to service a pass-through penalty, and could autumn adjacent to a thigh down successful the process.

All different Cup cars passed pre-race inspection without issue.

McDowell enters this contention 21st successful the title standings, 32 points beneath the Chase cut-line.

Denny Hamlin secured rod presumption for NASCAR's long-awaited instrumentality to Chicagoland aft 7 years away, besting Kyle Larson by conscionable 0.001s. The contention starts astatine 6pm EST connected Sunday, arsenic portion of 3 consecutive weeks with Sunday nighttime Cup races.