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NASCAR will examine if there’s more it could have done related to calls that upset some competitors last weekend at Indianapolis, but NASCAR Senior Vice President of Competition Elton Sawyer said series officials made the right decisions.
Sawyer discussed Tuesday on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio the blend line violation penalties to Chase Elliott and Brad Keselowski, the restart when Keselowski, the leader, pulled off coming to the green, and finishing the Brickyard 400 under caution.
Overtime restart issue
As the field came to take the green flag for the first overtime restart, leader Brad Keselowski was on the inside of the front row and had Ryan Blaney to his outside. Eventual winner Kyle Larson was behind Keselowski on the inside of the second row.
When the pace car pulled off, so did Keselowski, who was out of fuel.
Larson and the rest of the cars on the inside line moved up a row. That put Larson beside Blaney on the front row. Blaney was livid on his radio that NASCAR needed to put the caution back out and allow the field to choose lanes again since as the second-place car, he was now at a disadvantage to what had been the third-place car (Larson) after Larson moved into Keselowski’s spot.
