Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

NASCAR makes a fine move

Although it’s not one of the most pressing issues facing NASCAR, the sport’s sanctioning body on Monday announced that, beginning this season, all money collected from fines issued to drivers would go to NASCAR’s charitable foundation.

In the past, all money collected from fines went into the year-end fund, which meant that drivers could end up getting back what they were fined -- and then some -- when the prize money was doled out at the end of the season.

The NASCAR Foundation supports dozens of charitable organizations, including Kyle and Pattie Petty’s Victory Junction Gang Camp and Speedway Children’s Charities.

NASCAR gets criticized when it makes a boneheaded move. It should be applauded when it does the right thing.

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