So how about the sanctioning body’s response after all that [at the Richmond race finish]?
Hamlin and Logano have both called for the win to be stripped away and started a conversation about overall racing ethics at the highest level and it fell on senior vice president of competition to explain why Dillon was confirmed the winner after a nearly two-minute deliberation.
“Our sport has been a contact sport for a long time,” [Elton] Sawyer said. “You always hear, ‘Where’s the line, did someone cross the line?’ I would say the last lap was awful close to the line, we’ll take a look at all of the available resources from audio to video, listen to spotters, we’ll listen to crew chiefs and drivers and if anything rises to a level that we feel like we need to penalize then we’ll do that on Tuesday.”
So it’s not case closed yet, even if it’s hard to see NASCAR disqualifying the winner two days after the fact, but the radio communication is pretty egregious by any standard.
“We’ll look at all of the available resources, look at audio, look at video, look at SMT Data as we normally do in a situation like this and make a determination on Tuesday,” Sawyer said.
— Sportsnaut —