NASCAR plans to talk with Tony Stewart and Ryan Newman before each driver gets on track Friday at Chicagoland Speedway to discuss their incident and comments at Richmond, Steve O’Donnell, NASCAR executive vice president and chief racing development officer, told SiriusXM NASCAR Radio on Monday. ‘Certainly too late for us to do anything in terms of a reaction at track,’ O’Donnell said Monday.’After you hear the comments from both drivers, disappointing in terms of how that played out and what was said on the air. We’re going to take a look at that now that we’ve got some time and certainly talk to both drivers before heading into Chicago and go from there. We’re still looking through everything to review the data and then have conversations with the drivers.’ O’Donnell explained on’The Morning Drive’ how they might talk to the drivers. ‘Any incident like that, we’ll sit each driver down prior to going on the racetrack and make sure, probably individually, that they’ve talked,’ he said. ‘If they haven’t talked, we’ll make sure they’re together before any of the cars go out on the track prior to that first practice.’(NBC Sports)
