We all knew that Ty Majeski’s No. 98 Ford team was going to get the gauntlet levied against them this week. Now, we know the penalty. On Tuesday afternoon, NASCAR announced that they had issues an L-2 penalty against the team for the infraction found in last week’s race in Milwaukee.

According to NASCAR, the team was found in violation of Sections 14.16.1 and 14.16.1.A&C of the NASCAR Rule Book, which deals with wheels and tires, and wheel assembly, specifically the valve stems.

NASCAR discovered the issue during pre race inspection for last Sunday’s second race of the playoffs. As a result, NASCAR confiscated the right rear tire and immediately ejected crew chief Joe Shear Jr. For the race, Majeski had to start last and serve a pass through penalty at the drop of the green flag.

That was procedural penalties. This week was when the big penalty came and on that penalty report, driver Ty Majeski was docked 75 points as well as 5 playoff points. His crew chief, Joe Shear Jr. was fined $25k and will also be suspended for the next four races.

Some now wonder how this impacts the team moving forward? It doesn’t cost Majeski a berth to the second round of the playoffs as he gets to keep his win from a few weeks ago at Indianapolis Raceway Park. However, he loses the 5 playoff points from the win though which brings him back to what he brought into the postseason.

The 75 points doesn’t really matter much unless he’s eliminated from the playoffs in the next round and has to revert back to a predetermined number. Losing 75 points could cost him of finishing 5th in the end of the season. However, if he makes the Championship 4, the point penalty means absolutely nothing.

Losing his crew chief may not mean a whole heck of a lot these days, especially since he gets him back in the second to last race. There’s war rooms and resources for crew chiefs to work remote now anyhow and with these races not being long in distances, there’s not much a crew chief can do at the track and tinker with in person these days anyway.

So really this penalty could mean nothing when it’s all said and done. My thinking though is how extreme was the issue that they were doing. Majeski led 168 of 250 laps in Richmond and backed that up with 179 of 200 laps led a race later. He led 88 total laps combined all season before those two races. He led 0 laps last Sunday in Milwaukee after they got caught.

Was what they were doing affecting his performance that much and now that they’re not doing it anymore, does the 98 truck lose speed? That’s the main thing to watch here.

Three other Truck Series teams were penalized after Milwaukee. The No. 51 Kyle Busch Motorsports Chevrolet team was handed an L1-grade penalty for violating Sections 14.4.12.2.A&B: Triangular Filler Panels. Officials deducted 10 points from both the team and driver Matt Mills in their standings. Two of Niece Motorsports’ teams were issued $2,500 fines for each having one unsecured lug nut in a post-race check; the safety violations (Sections 8.8.10.4a) were issued to crew chiefs Mike Hillman (No. 41 Chevrolet for driver Bayley Currey) and Phil Gould (No. 42 Chevy for playoff driver Carson Hocevar).

Competition officials also announced that Aaron Volf has been suspended indefinitely for a behavioral infraction. Volf has been listed on the official NASCAR team rosters as a hauler driver for the Tricon Garage No. 15 team in the Truck Series from the start of the season through the Aug. 11 race at Indianapolis Raceway Park. He was found in violation of Rule Book Sections 4.1 (NASCAR Substance Abuse Policy) and 10.1.A., which covers actions detrimental to stock-car racing.