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The NASCAR regular season continues to wind down with just one race to go after Saturday night’s race at Daytona International Speedway.
There is no race scheduled for Sunday afternoon after the Daytona race.
The tight race for the regular-season championship comes down to the next race, on Sept. 1 at Darlington Raceway.
The Sporting News has all the details ahead of the Cook Out Southern 500 on Sept. 1.
Denny Hamlin’s hopes at a NASCAR Cup Series regular-season championship were wiped away and his road to his possible first Cup championship got a little bit more difficult after NASCAR issued a hefty penalty Thursday afternoon.
Hamlin’s race-winning Bristol engine from March was, according to Toyota, “mistakenly” rebuilt by the manufacturer (Toyota provides engines to its teams) before NASCAR could tear it down and inspect it.
NASCAR docked Hamlin and his team 75 points, 10 playoff points (points used in the playoffs that can help a driver advance in a round) and fined Hamlin crew chief Chris Gabehart $100,000.
With the penalty, Hamlin, who was third in the standings and just 28 points behind leader Tyler Reddick, dropped to sixth and an insurmountable 103 points behind Reddick with two races remaining in the regular season.
He also saw his playoff points drop from 21 (third overall) to 11 (sixth overall) and likely will miss out on additional playoff points awarded based on the final regular-season standings.
