NASCAR penalized the Nos. 1, 3 and 23 Cup Series teams for Member Conduct violations during Sunday‘s race at Martinsville Speedway.After an investigation of the on-track data and team scanners from the final laps of Sunday‘s Round of 8 elimination race,

William Byron and Christopher Bell sat outside their cars, wrapped in suspense shortly after Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series race ended at Martinsville Speedway. A full 500 laps of racing should have determined which one made the Championship 4.

The drivers themselves were not suspended, but each will lose their crew chief, spotter and a team executive for the season finale.