NASCAR Sprint Cup Series teams will get a head start on race weekend in Las Vegas with a pair of practice sessions today, at 12 and 3 pm. Sunday’s Kobalt 400 will be the second race for the sanctioning body’s new low-downforce rules package that debuted last weekend at Atlanta Motor Speedway – where Jimmie Johnson notched his seventy-sixth career win. The six-time champion leads all drivers with four wins at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Cole Pearn, Sprint Cup Series crew chief on Martin Truex Jr.’s Number 78 Furniture Row Racing team, has been suspended for one race and fined fifty thousand dollars for an unspecified pre-race inspection violation last weekend at Atlanta Motor Speedway. The team has been docked fifteen championship owner and driver points.
