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CUP: Penalty Changes Boost Penske

Although the fines and points penalties NASCAR levied against Penske Racing were upheld on appeal Tuesday, the team scored a significant victory when NASCAR chief appellate officer John Middlebrook trimmed the suspensions of seven key Penske personnel.Middlebrook, after hearing Penske's final appeal in a three-hour session at the NASCAR Research and Development Center, cut team and crew suspensions from six races to two, plus the upcoming Sprint All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway.The team members – crew chiefs Paul Wolfe and Todd Gordon, car chiefs Jerry Kelley and Raymond Fox III, engineers Samuel Stanley and Brian Wilson and competition director Travis Geisler – will miss point races at Darlington and Charlotte, and will return for the Dover race June 2. The team members have continued to work while the suspensions were under appeal.The team was penalized for rear-end housing violations at Texas Motor Speedway.Left intact were penalties of 25 points for the Brad Keselowski and...

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