15-year-old could face NASCAR penalties after posting video of himself driving at Daytona to …

Don’t film yourself during a Daytona test session. And don’t post that video to social media.That’s the lessons that 15-year-old Taylor Gray has undoubtedly learned after he posted a video of himself driving during an ARCA Series test session at Daytona to Snapchat on Friday.Here’s the video. Gray doesn’t appear to be around any other cars while he’s on the track.As you can imagine, it’s against NASCAR rules to film yourself with your phone while driving during a test, practice or race (NASCAR owns the ARCA Series). In fact, it’s against NASCAR rules to have a phone or any type of device that can record in your car at all.Drivers have been penalized for that rule infraction before, so it’s very possible that NASCAR will sanction Gray — especially since he posted it to social media. While driving with no one else around you at Daytona isn’t the most challenging thing in racing — drivers don’t typically have to lift off the gas or work very hard to steer their cars — it’s still a terrible idea to use your phone while going over 170 MPH.Gray made his first ARCA starts in 2020 after he turned 15 in March. He…
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