In a Tuesday morning appearance on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, NASCAR official Brad Moran addressed a Lap 1 incident at Kansas Speedway that sent Josh Berry to the garage on Sunday.
Berry was collected in an incident exiting Turn 2 that sent his No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford into a slide, ultimately flattening all four of his tires as he spun down the backstretch. The crash began with contact between Ty Dillon and Harrison Burton, tipping Burton directly into Berry’s right-rear wheel and turning around the No. 4 car.
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“The rule hasn’t changed, but it certainly can give a different view when it happens and it’s unfortunate,” Moran told SiriusXM. “But the 4, the 16, 21, and 84 were all involved in a wreck on the backstretch. The hit was hard enough on the 4 to lift the car off the ground, slam it down on the ground. And by the way, the IDR (incident) recorder did go off. So it was a significant incident that the 4 was in. If he couldn’t drive that car back, it was out due to DVP (Damaged Vehicle Policy). We don’t inspect it, obviously, on the site of the track. We haven’t got that ability. But the indicator is, you drive it back, you’re good.
“If, however, he just spun and had four flat tires, he would have been towed to pit road under the flat tire recovery program. But it’s really clear on our recovery program and our DVP that if you’re involved in an incident, you have to be able to get your vehicle back to pit road. If it’s just sitting there (with) flat tires, you spun out — we’ll even give you (if you had) a light scuff — that would be one thing. That vehicle would have been towed in.”
— NASCAR.com —