NASCAR docked Austin Dillon 25 factors within the drivers’ standings on Wednesday in response to him taking out two vehicles within the ultimate lap of final weekend’s race.
The disciplinary motion strips Dillon of playoff eligibility within the Cup Collection.
Dillon, nevertheless, will get to maintain the win at Richmond.
Dillon drops from No. 26 to No. 31 within the drivers’ rankings after NASCAR tossed the 25 factors for wrecking Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin on the ultimate lap of the Prepare dinner Out 400.
“So, as we glance by means of all of that information, we got here to the conclusion {that a} line had been crossed. Our sport has been based mostly going for a lot of, a few years, eternally, on good, arduous racing. Contact has been acceptable. We felt like, on this case, that the road was crossed,” Elton Sawyer, NASCAR senior vp of competitors, stated Wednesday.
NASCAR additionally fined Logano $50,000 for his post-race antics, suspended Dillon’s spotter three races and docked Dillon’s crew 25 factors within the homeowners’ standings, too.
Dillon first clipped Logano’s No. 22 coming off the ultimate restart, sending him spinning. Then Dillon caught as much as Hamlin and spun him into the wall to take the checkered flag.
Dillon’s spotter Brandon Benesch was suspended for telling Dillon to “wreck him,” talking of Hamlin.
“We all know precisely what was stated. We simply felt like that that is not what we’d like spotters doing,” Sawyer stated. “That is not what we’d like (from a) crew chief sitting on the field.”
Logano, indignant for getting spun out, was fined for spinning his tires close to the field of Dillon’s crew, Richard Childress Racing, a violation of the member code of conduct for compromising the security of others.
However the stiffest penalty was saved for Dillon, who stated this after Sunday’s race:
“Wins get you into the subsequent spherical. I did what I needed to do to cross the beginning/end line first.”
–Discipline Degree Media
