The National Motorsports Appellate Company (NMAP) heard and reviewed an appeal by NASCAR Cup Series Trackhouse Racing on Thursday of race-tampering penalties in Sunday’s XFINITY 500 at Martinsville Speedway assessed on Tuesday.

After thorough deliberation, Thursday’s three-person appeals panel of Kelly Housby, Lyn St. James and Steve York, determined that Ross Chastain and Trackhouse Racing’s No. 1 Chevrolet Camaro had indeed violated NASCAR’s outlined sections. Cup Series Rules.

The original sentence will remain in its full form.

In making the above decision, the commission offered the following explanation: “We feel in the interest of racing and to protect the integrity of the sport, it was appropriate to uphold and uphold NASCAR’s decision regarding NASCAR rule 4.4, attempting to manipulate the outcome of the race. “

Phil Surgen (crew chief), Brandon McReynolds (spotter) and Tony Lunders (team executive) have been suspended for this weekend’s NASCAR Cup Series championship race at Phoenix Raceway.

McReynolds will not be able to spot in any NASCAR National Series events this weekend at Phoenix Raceway, which will also affect Parker Kligerman and Big Machine Racing — who have tapped Eric Holmes to serve as interim spotter of the No. 48.

Trackhouse Racing and Ross Chastain will still be required to pay the $100,000 fine assessed by NASCAR, and Chastain received 50 driver points and 50 owner points.

The organization, if it so chooses, will have the opportunity to make a final appeal to the Final Appeals Officer (FAO). However, at the time of publishing this story, no confirmation has been made as to whether the team will implement this plan or not.

Both 23XI Racing (#23) and Richard Childress Racing (#3) they also received similar punishments on Tuesday for manipulating the outcome of Sunday’s Martinsville event. 23XI Racing chose not to appeal, instead focusing on its Championship 4 effort with Tyler Reddick.

Richard Childress Racing, which had planned to appeal the race-fixing penalties on Thursday (and even had a hearing set for 5:30 p.m. ET) chose to withdraw its appeal.