Heim, driving the No. 11 TRICON Storage Toyota, was one among 4 drivers in competition for the Truck Collection title final Friday.
Within the closing laps, he cleanly handed Carson Hocevar for place and took management of the championship. Hocevar fought again and bumped into the again of Heim. The Toyota spun whereas Hocevar carried on, falling again to the rear of the sector.
Hocevar then pale afterwards, getting emotional and displaying regret on the radio for the contact. The title battle in the end got here right down to Grant Enfinger and Ben Rhodes whereas Heim struggled to regain misplaced floor.
When he crossed paths with Hocevar once more, there have been simply three laps left within the race. He appeared to deliberately flip up the monitor on the exit of Flip 2, crashing himself and Hocevar, in addition to amassing one other truck.
The race was compelled into additional time, and absolute chaos ensued.
Enfinger, who seemed to be on his approach to capturing the title, misplaced out to Ben Rhodes in a race that went practically 30 laps previous the scheduled distance attributable to a number of accidents and restarts.
Though Heim denied that he deliberately wrecked Hocevar in his post-race interviews, NASCAR has since reviewed radio transmissions from the No. 11 group at Phoenix and decided that Heim violated the Member Conduct tips, particularly the next sections of the NASCAR rule guide:
*Making an attempt to govern the end result of the Race or championship. *Wrecking or spinning one other car, whether or not or not that car is faraway from Competitors because of this. *Any actions deemed to compromise the security of an Occasion or in any other case pose a harmful danger to the security of Rivals, Officers, spectators, or others.
The result’s a $12,500 high quality and the lack of 25 driver factors. The penalty drops Heim from third to fourth within the ultimate standings, behind Hocevar.
