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Says title contender Kyle Larson: \u201cI really couldn\u2019t tell you who would be the favorite.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201c(Mayer) destroyed our car and wrecked us,\u201d Burton said after the race. \u201cHopefully NASCAR does something because he literally right-reared me into the outside wall. I hate it for my guys to tear up a car.<\/p>\n
\u201cI race a lot of people out here with respect and I just want it back. He ran over me for no reason, so I gave it back to him and he threw a temper tantrum. I\u2019d love to talk to him but there wouldn\u2019t be much talking. … The way he acts, he\u2019s a punk. I think everybody knows that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mayer was upset with Burton for triggering a crash that collected Mayer the previous weekend at Talladega and also was upset with how Burton raced him Saturday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a principle thing,\u201d Mayer said. “(Burton) is the worst person to race around in the entire garage. He has a reputation of being over his head every single week and this was a prime example of it. He just can\u2019t take no for an answer.<\/p>\n
\u201cA (playoff driver) racing for something huge, moved him out of the way and went on and was faster than him in the end. As soon as he got back to me, he gave it me and tried to wreck me three corners in a row. Thank God I have enough car control where I can hold on to it and not wreck. He has no respect for someone racing for something that\u2019s bigger than he is.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for the process NASCAR in determining what action to take, Sawyer told \u201cThe Morning Drive\u201d on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio: \u201cI\u2019ll let our series director (in the Xfinity Series) Eric Peterson run point. He\u2019ll talk to both driver, in this case Jeb and Sam, get their side of the story. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll go back and look at all the replay. We\u2019ll look at the race as an entirety to see what unfolded early on and then we take all of that, we sit down and look at prior situations that are similar and we\u2019ll make a decision on how we move forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen things happen after the race and we start using vehicles to run into each other, that risdes to a different level and we\u2019ll respond accordingly.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elton Sawyer, NASCAR senior vice president of competition, said Tuesday morning that series officials will further examine Sam…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-245843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}