NASCAR trucks driver Ty Majeski fined $12,500 for missing media session to vote in Wisconsin

NASCAR Truck Series title contender Ty Majeski was fined $12,500 for missing his media convention to spell ballot successful his location authorities of Wisconsin connected Election Day

AVONDALE, Ariz. -- NASCAR Truck Series title contender Ty Majeski was fined $12,500 by nan banal car bid this week aft missing media obligations to ballot successful his location authorities of Wisconsin connected Election Day.

Majeski is 1 of 4 drivers who tin triumph nan motortruck title astatine Phoenix Raceway connected Friday night. Majeski talked pinch Thorsport Racing owners and each agreed he would formed his ballot successful personification connected Tuesday.

Majeski called nan punishment “unprecedented" and said he will entreaty nan decision.

“I felt for illustration I needed to do my work arsenic a U.S. national to vote. My squad owners and I, we each made nan determination to workout that right,” he said.

A NASCAR spokesperson said nan squad ne'er disclosed Majeski was not disposable because he was voting.

Majeski said he didn't cognize until past week aft nan title astatine Martinsville, erstwhile he vanished 11th to beforehand connected points, that he would beryllium successful nan title four. The 30-year-old Majeski will compete pinch Corey Heim, Christian Eckes and Grant Enfinger successful trying for his first Truck Series title.

“This has ne'er happened before. Election Day, everyone knew it was Election Day for a agelong time,” he said. “It’s unfortunate circumstances for everybody."

Majeski said he has ever been a personification who votes connected Election Day and has ne'er filled retired an absentee ballot.

“I wanted to make judge my ballot was counted,” he said.

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