No further penalties to be dealt No. 96 after Chicago

The No. 96 car of Hall of Fame Racing was made to return to pit road on the first lap of Saturday night's event at Chicagoland Speedway for an improper procedure involving driver J.J. Yeley's drinking system.

There will be no further penalties assessed for the violation, according to NASCAR.

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There was no funny business. We made a couple of mistakes. They punished us for it.
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TOM GARFINKEL"They were replacing or changing out their drink system without NASCAR's supervision, and we take moving weight around in the car seriously," said Robin Pemberton, the circuit's vice president for competition. "... We're comfortable with what the car's weight was before the start of the race. As far as we know [Saturday], we're all flush. They've served out penalties."

Team co-owner Tom Garfinkel met with NASCAR officials after the race. "I think there were a couple of mistakes that were made by our crew that were honest mistakes ... [and] NASCAR had reason to believe we were doing something we shouldn't have been doing," he said. "We weren't doing it, but they had reason to believe that because of some mistakes in procedure that we made."

Garfinkel added that initial speculation centering on lead in the car's drinking system was unfounded. "There was no funny business," he said. "We made a couple of mistakes. They punished us for it. We made some mistakes in procedure, but there was no funny business. There was no malice or intent or anything like that."

And in NASCAR's view, the penalty assessed is punishment enough. "We're fine," Pemberton said. "We're done with them."