Catchfence

NASCAR officials have suspended Kyle Busch for the remainder of the Texas Motor Speedway weekend for wrecking Ron Hornaday in retaliation on lap 14 of the Camping World Truck Series race Friday night.

Busch met with NASCAR officials Saturday morning prior to Sprint Cup practice, and NASCAR announced that Busch had been suspended for all activity – Nationwide and Cup events for the weekend. Michael McDowell practiced the Cup car Saturday morning and is expected to race it in the AAA Texas 500 on Sunday. Denny Hamlin will compete in the Nationwide Series race Saturday afternoon.

NASCAR President Mike Helton said there could be additional penalties.

“The responsibility that over the past two or three seasons we’ve given back to the drivers came with a very clear understanding that there could be a line that got crossed,” Helton said Saturday at TMS. “And as annoying as the comments that I’ve made personally in the past about, ‘We’ll know it when we see it’ might have been, we saw it last night.”

Busch, who is seventh in the Cup standings, is the first Sprint Cup driver to be suspended for on-track actions since Robby Gordon in 2007.

- Scene Daily