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Would NASCAR take away Austin Dillon’s win at Richmond for last-lap incidents?
NASCAR will additional look at if to penalize Austin Dillon for wrecking two drivers on the ultimate lap to win Sunday evening’s Cup race at Richmond Raceway and safe a spot within the playoffs, a collection official mentioned after the race.
Elton Sawyer, senior vp of competitors, mentioned Sunday evening that officers will take a deeper dive into the final lap.
Austin Dillon made contact with Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin on the ultimate lap of extra time to snap a 68-race winless streak.
Dillon bumped into the again of Joey Logano between Turns 3 and 4 on the ultimate lap and turned Logano, sending him into the wall. That allowed Denny Hamlin to get by Dillon, however Dillon hit Hamlin’s proper rear. That despatched Hamlin into the wall and Dillon to the win — his first since August 2022 at Daytona.
Logano after Cook dinner Out 400: ‘It is a bunch of B.S.’
Joey Logano holds nothing again after the tip of the Cook dinner Out 400, the place Austin Dillon spun him round within the remaining lap to win in Richmond.
“Our sport has been a contact sport for a very long time,” Sawyer informed reporters after the race. “We at all times hear ‘The place’s the road and did somebody cross the road?’
“I might say that the final lap was terrible near the road. We’ll check out all of the accessible assets from audio to video. The spotters, we’ll hearken to, crew chiefs and drivers and if something rises to a degree that we really feel like we have to penalize, then we’ll try this on Tuesday.”
Paul Wolfe says last-lap strikes at Richmond Raceway have been unprofessional.
Requested if any NASCAR penalty might embrace taking the win away from Dillon, Sawyer informed reporters: “Traditionally, that hasn’t been our DNA to take races away, however that’s to not say that going ahead this wouldn’t begin to set a precedent of do we’ve got to take a look at it.”
NASCAR let Dillon’s strikes stand Sunday evening and he was scored the winner. Hamlin completed second and Logano nineteenth.
Hamlin: “Completely a line was crossed”
Denny Hamlin talks about getting taken out on the finish of the Cook dinner Out 400 and why he understands what Austin Dillon did.
Requested if collection officers initially didn’t see Dillon crossing a line together with his actions, Sawyer mentioned: “It occurred quick, however should you take a look at that, in my opinion, that’s getting proper up actually near crossing the road.”
Sawyer later informed reporters: “I feel we’ve got to be taught from the incident (Sunday evening) and transfer ahead and see if there’s one thing that … racing within the period that we race in as we speak and the best way our younger children are arising racing in brief tracks, we need to be sure that the best degree of racing, which is NASCAR Cup Collection, it’s executed on the highest degree and it’s executed with essentially the most integrity and sportsmanship and that’s what we’re about. We’ll see if we have to modify accordingly.”
Automotive proprietor Richard Childress, who received six championships with Dale Earnhardt as his driver, defended Dillon’s actions Sunday.
“Quick monitor racing is brief monitor racing,” Childress mentioned in response to a query from NBC Sports activities’ Nate Ryan. “You’re going to see it. I’ve seen it greater than as soon as. … When it comes right down to the tip of the day, any of those guys do what it takes to win the race there on the very finish.”
Dillon: ‘Typically, you simply bought to have it’
Austin Dillon talks about his victory at Richmond Raceway and whether or not his transfer within the remaining lap was truthful.
Dillon was requested after the race about his spotter saying to “run him down, wreck him” in these frantic remaining seconds of the occasion.
“At that time I’m elbows up, holding the throttle down, simply attempting to get to the beginning/end line actually,” Dillon mentioned. “I’m sideways off of (Flip) 4 ‘trigger I’m already three-quarters of the lane up the monitor, hammer the gasoline.
“I’m simply wanting at first/end line. That’s it. I ain’t listening to (expletive) at that time, you recognize? Your eyes flip pink. You see pink, you get to the tip of the race.
“Daytona, final lap once I received there on the 500, your eyes see pink. There’s one factor in your thoughts: get to the beginning/end line first, interval. Irrespective of if anyone got here on the radio, it doesn’t matter. Like, you may have one job to do, it’s to get to the beginning/end line first. … Lots of people lose their jobs as a result of they don’t get to the beginning/end line first.”
After the race, Logano stopped on pit highway close to Dillon’s crew and throttled up, doing a quick burnout with individuals close by. Requested if Logano might face any penalties, Sawyer mentioned: “We’ll take a look at the whole lot that occurred on the final lap and post-race and see if any penalties must be issued.”
