NASCAR Penalized Bubba Wallace For Reckless Driving After He Hit Austin Dillon Under Caution At The Clash At The Coliseum
After Austin Dillon was cited for reckless driving, NASCAR sanctioned Bubba Wallace.
According to NASCAR’s Infraction Sheet for the Busch Light Clash at The Coliseum, Wallace was sent to the tail of the field on lap 143 for reckless driving.
Dillon had just 10 laps left when he dumped Wallace. Wallace had been driving under Dillon and passing him before Dillon made the infraction.
Upon getting passed, Wallace put his bumper to Dillon’s car sending him up the track and opening up the inside.
Wallace would try and push Dillon up the track, but Dillon wasn’t going to let that happen as he responded by driving his car down on Wallace through the straightaway. Alex Bowman joined the two of them and they went three-wide around the corner.
Wallace was able to complete the pass. But Dillon offered Wallace a taste and sent him spinning, with just seven laps left.
The spin would bring out the caution. Wallace tried to rejoin the field, but Dillon was already under him.
Wallace got down below Dillon and began to rough him up, ramming into his right side.
Following the race, Wallace spoke to FOX: NASCAR’s Bob Pockrass about the run-in with Dillon saying, ”
We were really good at the first half of the race, obviously, and then all those cautions.”
“I couldn’t tell if I was letting it get too cold or letting it get too hot, and then once I fell back to fourth I realized I was letting everything get too cold. And so I was kicking myself for that. But quickly adjusted and got back going and the 3 just never tried to make a corner, he’s just always running into my left rear.”
He said, “It is what it is. I got run into the fence by him down the straightaway on that restart so I gave him a shot and then we got dumped.”
“Y’all are looking for something but I ain’t gonna give you nothing,” He concluded.
Bubba Wallace discusses the contact with Austin Dillon and his own pass to Denny Hamlin. pic.twitter.com/LQEx5YmSdI
— Bob Pockrass (@bobpockrass) February 6, 2023
Dillon also addressed the contact after the race, saying: “I hate it for Bubba; he had a good car and a good run. But you can’t tell who’s either pushing him or getting pushed, I just know he sent me through the corner and I saved it three times through there, released the brake and all kinds of stuff, and then when I got down, I was going to give the same. Probably was a little too hard.”
RELATED: NASCAR Suspends Bubba Wallace for Intentionally Wrecking Kyle Larson
Wallace was previously expelled from a race after he intentionally damaged Bubba Wallace at Las Vegas.
At the time NASCAR issued the suspension Kyle Petty shared his opinion that it wasn’t enough. He called for Wallace to get suspended for the rest of the season and also opined that he didn’t believe Wallace’s apology.
Petty said: “He should have been suspended for the rest of the year. Rest of the year.”
Petty also said: “First, you intentionally wreck somebody. That’s a suspension,” He asserted. “He’s walking across the racetrack and cars are going by him on both sides. That’s not safe. That should be another suspension. Physically confronts a driver. Shoves him. That’s a physical confrontation. If I do that on the sidewalk I’m in handcuffs somewhere, okay?”
“So he physically confronts this driver, shoves an official, doesn’t get in an ambulance, walks back to the pits, and then stands and bold faced tells a fib — I’m being nice — to my man here, Marty Snider, who did a great job in your interview, I will give you that,” He said.
“So the lesson should be the rest of the year, just the rest of the year. That’s just me, okay? My man Matt Kenseth, who didn’t speak to me for almost a year after his accident with Joey Logano, got two races. So you can turn a guy, right side, driver side into the wall at 180 mph and you get one,” Petty in comparison.
Regarding Wallace’s apology, Petty said, “His PR people sent out an apology, okay? And they should win a Pulitzer prize for it because it is so full of you know what. That there’s no way. This is unbelievable. It just is.”
“Until I see what Bubba has to say and see if there’s some contrition, if there’s some, you know, ‘I’m sorry, this should have never happened,’ but we have yet to hear from the man. We are yet to hear back from the man. You can see a piece paper with writing on it. That’s all I see. I don’t see anything. Get up and apologize.
“I hate to say that, but in an incident like this there needs to be more than just a written not here with that origami logo on the bottom of it. He needs to say something,” Petty asserted.
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