Carson Kvapil’s Food City 300 bid collapsed under a black flag Friday night, after NASCAR ruled his smoking, brake-starved Chevrolet unsafe to keep racing at Bristol Motor Speedway in the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series Chase race.
The penalty likely cost Kvapil the lead and laps he needed to tighten his championship push, leaving JR Motorsports racing to patch a suspected brake failure before time runs out.
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With roughly 80 laps remaining in the third and final stage, Kvapil radioed that his No. 1 Chevrolet had a loose wheel and had lost its brakes, according to FOX Sports’ Bob Pockrass and NASCAR insider John Newby. Smoke then poured…
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