The National Motorsportsཧ Appeals Panel🅷 has overturned the L2 penalty levied against Chase Briscoe at NASCAR Cup Series’ season-opening Daytona 500.

NASCAR had initially penalised Bri🅷scoe and Joe Gibbs Raci♊ng after the #19 Toyota was found to be running with a modified spoiler base in the Daytona International Speedway race on 16 February.

The team was found to be in violation of Section 14.1 of the rulebook, 💮which deals with overal🍒l assembled parts, and 14.5.8, which pertains to the spoiler.

NASCAR had stated that the s🥃poiler base is a single-source part and hence cannot be modified.

As part of the sanction, Briscoe was docked 100 driver po🦩ints and 10 playoff points, while Joe Gibbs Racing lost a further 100 team points and was hit with a $100,000 fine. In addꦜition, crew chief James Small was suspended for four races.

How🥃ever, a three-member panel comprising Dixon Johnston, Hunter Nickell and Cathy R🀅ice carefully examined the situation and rescinded all penalties on Thursday.

“The panel believes that the elongation of some of the hol﷽es on the No. 19 Cup car spoiler base is caused by the process of attaching that specific spoiler base to the rear💫 deck and not modification of the single source part,” it said in a statement.

Team owner Joe Gibbs responded by saying that “we 🎃aಌppreciate the process NASCAR has in place that allowed us the opportunity to present our explanation of what led to the penalty issued to our No. 19 team.

He added: “We are thankful for the consideration and ruling by the National Motorsports Appeals Panel. It is obviously great news for our 19 team and everyone 🔴at Joe Gibbs Racing. We look forward to focusing on the remainder of our season starting this weekend in Phoenix.”

Briscoe, who joined𓆉 Joe Gibbs Racing in 2025 from Stewart-Haas Racing, has jumped from 💝40th to 15th in the standings after the decision. He now has 72 points on board.

“Biggest points day of my career! We’re back!” Briscoe said on X (formerly Twitter). “In all seriousness thank you ♛to NASCAR for giving us the option to show our evidence and huge thank you to everyone at (Joe Gibbs Racing) who put in countless hours to put everything together.”