While Austin Cindric and Team Penske can celebrate their victory from Talladega Superspeedway, there’s one faction of individuals from the championship-winning organization that is focused on some bad news.
Ryan Preece and Joey Logano, the second and fifth-place finishers from Sunday’s Jack Link’s 500 at Talladega Superspeedway, have been disqualified from the event and will be relegated to finishes of 38th and 39th place, respectively.
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According to an inspection report from NASCAR officials, both Preece and Logano violated Section 14.5.8.F of the NASCAR Cup Series Rule Book, which references the team’s spoilers. Despite falling under the same section, the two teams were disqualified for two different violations.
After originally being credited with a career-best second-place finish, Preece was disqualified for having too many spoiler shims on the rear-end of his No. 60 CELSIUS Ford Mustang Dark Horse. Logano, on the other hand, was disqualified for missing a spoiler bolt on the rear-end of his No. 22 Shell-Pennzoil Ford Mustang Dark Horse.
Logano, the defending champion of the NASCAR Cup Series, had just been credited with his first top-five result of the 2025 campaign — snapping a streak without a top-five that, for a defending champion, was the longest into a new season since 1950.
Austin Cindric has passed technical inspection and is the winner of the Jack Link’s 500.
Kyle Larson will be credited with a second-place finish, with his teammate William Byron just behind him in third place. Noah Gragson will now be credited for a top-five with Front Row Motorsports, in fourth, with Chase Elliott rounding out the top five.
Carson Hocevar, Alex Bowman, Bubba Wallace, Daniel Suarez, and Austin Dillon will complete the top-10.
