NASCAR Suspends 2 Crew Members Indefinitely After Attack on Corey Heim
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Updated · Fox News · Sep 30
NASCAR Suspends 2 Crew Members Indefinitely After Attack on Corey Heim
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Sep 30
Summary
NASCAR indefinitely suspended Chad Bryant and Steve Civatarese after crew members jumped and beat Corey Heim outside Martinsville last weekend, and also barred both from the 2027 Martinsville event.
Bryant — the team owner at the center of the confrontation — was fined $2,000, ordered into NASCAR-approved anger management and placed on 1 year of probation; Civatarese was fined $1,000 and also put on probation.
Five other crew members were fined $500 each and placed on probation, in what the report described as an unusually severe NASCAR intervention for a late model race rather than a national-series event.
Denny Hamlin had publicly urged NASCAR to hand down yearlong pit-lane bans, calling the attackers "cowards" and warning the sanctioning body needed to regain control at Martinsville.