NASCAR: Several cars fail Richmond pre-race inspection, sent to back

Several cars have failed pre-race inspection ahead of the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series season’s ninth race at Richmond Raceway and have been sent to the back of the starting grid.

This weekend’s NASCAR Cup Series race weekend at Richmond Raceway is considered an enhanced at-track weekend. As a result, all cars were impounded after the qualifying session for tonight’s Toyota Owners 400 yesterday night and put through pre-race inspection earlier today.

During an enhanced weekend, any car that fails this pre-race inspection any amount of times has its qualifying time disallowed and is sent to the back of the starting lineup. The cars who are set to the back of the starting lineup for this reason are then lined up by owner points.

Several cars, including four car that qualified inside the top 10, failed pre-race inspection ahead of the 400-lap race around the four-turn, 0.75-mile (1.207-kilometer) Richmond Raceway oval in Richmond, Virginia and have been sent to the back of the starting lineup as a result of it.

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Joe Gibbs Racing’s Erik Jones, Hendrick Motorsports’ Chase Elliott, Stewart-Haas Racing’s Daniel Suarez and Hendrick Motorsports’ Jimmie Johnson all qualified for this race in the top 10, as they qualified in second, seventh, ninth and 10th place, respectively. But Jones’s #20 Toyota, Elliott’s #9 Chevrolet, Suarez’s #41 Ford and Johnson’s #48 Chevrolet all failed pre-race inspection, so they have all been set to the back of the starting lineup.

Additionally, Stewart-Haas Racing’s Aric Almirola, Joe Gibbs Racing’s Denny Hamlin, Front Row Motorsports’ Matt Tifft and MBM Motorsports’ Joey Gase qualified in 15th, 18th, 20th and 36th place, in their #10 Ford, #11 Toyota, #36 Ford and #66 Toyota, but they all failed pre-race inspection as well and have been set to the back of the starting lineup as a result of it.

With 37 cars in the field for tonight’s race, the eight cars that failed post-race inspection are set to line up from 30th through 37th place.

Here is the updated starting lineup for the 2019 Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond Raceway.

Starting lineup
1st – Kevin Harvick
2nd – Kurt Busch
3rd – Joey Logano
4th – Kyle Busch
5th – Martin Truex Jr.
6th – Austin Dillon
7th – Chris Buescher
8th – Brad Keselowski
9th – Paul Menard
10th – Kyle Larson
11th – Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
12th – Alex Bowman
13th – William Byron
14th – Clint Bowyer
15th – David Ragan
16th – Ryan Preece
17th – Daniel Hemric
18th – Michael McDowell
19th – Darrell Wallace Jr.
20th – Matt DiBenedetto
21st – Corey LaJoie
22nd – Ryan Blaney
23rd – Ty Dillon
24th – Ryan Newman
25th – Landon Cassill
26th – Bayley Currey
27th – Jeb Burton
28th – Quin Houff
29th – Ross Chastain
30th – Denny Hamlin
31st – Aric Almirola
32nd – Chase Elliott
33rd – Daniel Suarez
34th – Jimmie Johnson
35th – Erik Jones
36th – Matt Tifft
37th – Joey Gase

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The live broadcast of the Toyota Owners 400 is set to begin on Fox from Richmond Raceway tonight at 7:30 p.m. ET, so be sure not to miss the ninth race of the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series season.

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