DALE EARNHARDT JR. CALLS OUT NASCAR ON KYLE BUSCH RULING: ‘NO WAY HIS ASS GETS PUT BACK INTO POSITION’

Dale Earnhardt Jr. doesn’t understand NASCAR’s ruling of Kyle Busch being put in the top five of the Cup Series race in Nashville during a restart after being invovled in a crash. While talking about the incident on the Dale Jr. Download, Earnhardt looked back at a race he was in at Watkins Glen with Steve Letarte and Clint Bowyer. There was a crash during the last lap of the race, and Bowyer’s car “gets destroyed.” Earnhardt and Letarte passed Bowyer. But during the caution, Bowyer drove back around to his original spot and finished 10th.

“That was bulls*** then, and it’s bulls*** today,” Earnhardt said. “I don’t care what you tell me. I watched a guy crash into the wreck. He’s done. He’s going to finish in the back. No way his ass gets put back in his position like nothing happened to him.”

What happened with Earnhardt at Watkins Glen reminded him of what happened with Busch on Sunday. Busch did crash later in the race and finished 27th, but Earnhardt doesn’t think Busch should be given his P4 position after running into the wall because he was involved in a crash.

“I don’t understand how he gets it back,” Earnhardt stated. “I watched the guy go up and hit the wall. I know he didn’t drive into the wreck, he didn’t hit the one car that was spinning out in front of him, but he did go up the racetrack, make contact with the outside wall. In that moment for me, he’s in the wreck.”

Dale Earnhardt Jr. has nothing against Kyle Busch

Earnhardt added: “I don’t know what NASCAR is thinking there. I got nothing against Kyle Busch. I’m a believer they get a win, they get themselves in the playoffs. I’m a believer that they’re absolutely still capable of doing all that, but no matter who it is in that scenario I don’t understand NASCAR’s reasoning.

“I watched the guy go up and hit the wall. In my mind, in that moment he’s in the crash. The contact with the wall is the trigger that he’s now involved. …That doesn’t jive with the last 30 years or 40 years of racing that I’ve watched.”

On Tuesday,Brad Moran, Cup Series managing director, explained the ruling on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. “His spots weren’t taken away because our rule clearly states that you must maintain a reasonable speed,” Moran said. “And reasonable speed is for what track conditions are at the time. We don’t want to encourage drivers to stay on the gas and just kind of, you know, bang their way through. What (Busch) did was he avoided the incident.

“We deemed him not involved in that incident. He didn’t stop. If he had to stop, he probably would have ended up towards the back of the field, but he was scored in the fourth-place position when that caution come out. He didn’t get into (Ross Chastain) or (Kyle Larson) and made very slight contact with the wall, so we would deem that as not being involved in that incident and that’s why he was able to restart where he was scored.”

On3’s Steve Samra contributed to this story.

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