CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- NASCAR will not penalize Martin Truex Jr. or Jimmie Johnson for failing inspection after the opening race of the playoffs.Truex won Sundays race at Chicagoland Speedway and Johnson finished 12th. Both cars failed the laser inspection with infractions that should have drawn 10-point penalties.Although the infractions were similar, NASCAR executive vice president Steve ODonnell said the penalties would not have been equal. Truex advanced into the second round of the playoffs with his victory, but Johnsons chances of advancing would have been hampered by the loss of 10 points.ODonnell said not penalizing either driver was the fair decision.If we applied those penalties, the post-race penalty really would not treat each competitor fairly, ODonnell said. We also saw this as a potential situation that we could see repeating itself for the next nine races of the Chase going forward. So we made the decision coming out of Chicago not to penalize (Truex) or (Johnson) for the post-race infractions we saw in Chicago, which the industry would agree were minor in nature.NASCAR didnt budge, though, on the penalties for missing lug nuts. The crew chiefs for Aric Almirola and Greg Biffle were each penalized $10,000 for not having properly installed lug nuts at Chicago. Drew Blickensderfer (Almirola) and Brian Pattie (Biffle) were both hit with P3 penalties on NASCARs scale.Also, all 16 teams in the Chase will go through the laser inspection after this Sundays race at New Hampshire. Only nine were inspected at Chicagoland.When we talked to the drivers and the teams shouldnt all 16 (Chase) go through there and thats a very fair point as well, ODonnell said. Going forward that will be part of our post-race inspection as well. 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