NASCAR Penalties

Cup Series stars among drivers hit with penalties as NASCAR officials kept busy in Mexico

Simmey Hannifin Donaldson Sunday 15 June 2025 16:35 Updated: 14:33

Another weekend of NASCAR Xfinity Series action is in the books following Saturday's Chilango 150 at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City.

The race was won by home favorite Daniel Suarez, with the Mexican Cup Series star dropping down to compete in the Xfinity Series at his home race and delivering a crowd-pleasing result after 65 laps of exciting action.

Suarez did so after being hit with a tail-end penalty at the start of the race having switched to a backup car following a crash in qualifying, and it turned out that this would be the first of a whole load of penalties handed out by the officials during Saturday's race.

Six further drivers joined the Mexican in heading to the rear at the start, for example, in their instance for 'unapproved adjustments', with NASCAR's official infraction sheet showing a total of 36 in-race penalties during the Xfinity Series race.

As is often the case with these reports, the most common of which was 'pitting before pit road is open', which resulted in a tail-end penalty for 13 drivers on Saturday, including Ty Gibbs, another Cup Series star stepping down to race, who found himself being punished.

Elsewhere, six Xfinity Series drivers were also hit with penalties for 'speeding on pit road', including championship contenders Sam Meyer and Jesse Love.

Whilst most infractions during Saturday's race resulted in a tail-end penalty, there were two stop-and-go penalties handed out, too, with Kris Wright and Anthony Alfredo (twice) hit for shortcutting the course.

With all of that said, you can find the full official NASCAR infraction sheet from Saturday's Xfinity Series race below.

NASCAR Xfinity Series Mexico City infraction sheet

With the above said, here is a full breakdown of all of Saturday's in-race penalties and when they occurred, with notes from NASCAR included.

Lap	Driver	Car No	Infraction	Penalty	NASCAR Notes
N/A	Daniel Suarez	9	Pre-Race to the Rear	Tail End	Backup Car
N/A	Christian Eckes	16	Pre-Race to the Rear	Tail End	Unapproved Adjustments
N/A	Ruben Rovelo	35	Pre-Race to the Rear	Tail End	Unapproved Adjustments
N/A	Anthony Alfredo	42	Pre-Race to the Rear	Tail End	Unapproved Adjustments
N/A	Brennan Poole	44	Pre-Race to the Rear	Tail End	Unapproved Adjustments
N/A	Thomas Annunziata	70	Pre-Race to the Rear	Tail End	Unapproved Adjustments
N/A	Andres Perez De Lara	91	Pre-Race to the Rear	Tail End	Unapproved Adjustments
3	Sam Mayer	41	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	N/A
3	Sam Mayer	41	Speeding on pit road	Tail End	N/A
6	Jeremy Clements	51	Speeding on pit road	Pass Thru	N/A
6	Jeremy Clements	51	Too many crewmember(s) in contact	Pass Thru	N/A
16	Kris Wright	5	Unspecified (Short cut course)	Stop & Go	Short cut course
23	Sage Karam	53	Tire violation	Tail End	N/A
23	Parker Retzlaff	28	Crewmember(s) over the wall too soon	Tail End	N/A
28	Anthony Alfredo	42	Unspecified (Short cut course)	Stop & Go	Short cut course
29	Jeremy Clements	51	Speeding on pit road	Pass Thru	N/A
37	Jesse Love	2	Speeding on pit road	Tail End	N/A
37	Andres Perez De Lara	91	Speeding on pit road	Tail End	N/A
37	Josh Williams	11	Speeding on pit road	Tail End	N/A
37	Austin Green	32	Removing equipment from assigned pit area	Tail End	N/A
40	Brennan Poole	44	Commitment Line Violation	Tail End	Garage
40	Brennan Poole	44	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	Garage
41	Blaine Perkins	31	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	N/A
41	Blaine Perkins	31	Crewmember(s) over the wall too soon	Tail End	N/A
43	Ryan Ellis	71	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	N/A
43	Austin Green	32	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	N/A
47	Sheldon Creed	00	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	N/A
47	Carson Kvapil	1	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	N/A
47	Connor Zilisch	88	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	N/A
47	Sam Mayer	41	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	N/A
47	Thomas Annunziata	70	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	N/A
47	Ty Gibbs	19	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	N/A
48	Ruben Rovelo	35	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	N/A
52	Anthony Alfredo	42	Unspecified (Short cut course)	Stop & Go	Short cut course
59	Jesse Love	2	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	N/A
60	Blaine Perkins	31	Tire violation	Tail End	N/A

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