NASCAR insiders react to Ty Majeski Truck Series championship win after fine for voting

Perhaps the most impressive performance during NASCAR Championship Weekend was Ty Majeski in the Truck Series. However, there was a bit of drama before Majeski raised his trophy last week.

Ty Majeski didn’t win a race until the very end of the regular season. Then he turned it up a notch.

However, a couple of days before Majeski was set to race for a championship, he was fined. The driver missed out on the production day for the Championship 4. NASCAR hit him with a $12,500 penalty.

Jeff Gluck and Jordan Bianchi of The Athletic spoke about the fine and championship after the weekend in Phoenix.

“Of course, my new theme of whatever the most NASCAR thing to happen also goes with Ty Majeski,” Gluck said on The Teardown podcast. “Because obviously he would not have been in the championship race if Taylor Gray had not been knocked out of the way at Martinsville. Plus, there was a controversy this week because Ty Majeski gets fined $12,500 for skipping the Truck Series content day which happened to be on election day. He went home to Wisconsin to vote, he said he did not want to vote absentee, he always votes in person.

“NASCAR said that they did not know that that was the reason he missed. So they fined him they did not know until after they fined him that he was voting, and they would have worked with him. However, it came out that they fined him for basically, people interpreted it as they fined him for voting. So, then of course that guy wins the championship in a dominant fashion in the Truck Series. So, of course.”

Ty Majeski won off of Christian Eckes’ mistake

One of the reasons why Ty Majeski won the Truck Series championship was what happened at Martinsville. On the final restart, it looked like Majeski was on his way out of the playoffs.

Taylor Gray was in the lead, which would give him the final spot in the championship race. However, Christian Eckes, who led the most laps, didn’t let that happen. He got physical with Gray and took the win away.

“He did, he only got in by the way because the week before a guy was pushed out of the lead in a late race situation who in fact, if Taylor Gray had won that race, Ty Majeski would not have qualified for the Championship 4,” Bianchi added.

Majeski built up to a great end to the season. He is a short-track master and one of the best Super Late Model drivers in America. Putting him in that championship race was always a bad bet for Eckes. But at the time, I’m not sure Eckes was thinking about the consequences of winning that Martinsville race.