Logano, Preece spoilers from Talladega on display at Texas

FORT WORTH, Texas -- A NASCAR official displayed the spoilers from both the No. 22 Team Penske car of Joey Logano and the No. 60 RFK Racing entry of Ryan Preece at Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday after their respective disqualifications last weekend at Talladega Superspeedway. Brad Moran, managing director for the Cup Series, met with the media outside of the series competition hauler to explain the separate issues with the two spoilers that led to the teams forfeiting their top-five finishes. At superspeedway races, a specific brace is utilized to help maintain the required spoiler angle at high speeds. For Logano's No. 22 Ford, two violations were discovered in post-race inspection. RELATED: Texas schedule | Cup Series standings First, a nut was missing from the bolt that keeps the brace intact. Secondly, a fastener on the brace was not securely fastened and maintained. Both violations could potentially cause deflection in the spoiler when the cars reach high speeds. "First of all, all fasteners need to be fastened and secure at all times during an event," Moran said. "So obviously, that's one problem. And the second problem is that, like I just mentioned, all the parts that are in this assembly, which is the brace, the bolts, the lock nuts, the washers, must be maintained. And obviously, one was missing. "We don't go out the intent, but we all know superspeedways, we pay a lot of attention to spoiler area deflections. There's a lot of work that goes into it by the teams, you know, they may have innocently left the nut loose. We don't know that, we don't take that into consideration." For Ryan Preece's No. 60 RFK Racing entry, it was discovered that the team had an unapproved number of spoiler shims, which similarly deals with spoiler deflection. "They're allowed two shims maximum at a superspeedway that must go the entire distance; the maximum they can be is 50 (thousands), which these are OK," Moran said. "Where the problem comes in is that there was a third (shim). Pretty cut and dry, black and white. "Unfortunate. The 60 had a great race, same with the 22, but we have to do our job to keep parity in the field. Everybody knows the rules. You know, this is our job to find things like this, clean it up." Preece was relegated to 38th in the 39-car field with Logano placed last in the official results. Both drivers also earned just one point in the championship standings, with the disqualification erasing what would have been a 40-point day for Preece and 41 points for Logano.