{"id":711391,"date":"2026-06-03T03:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/711391\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T03:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:17:11","slug":"nascar-will-not-penalize-austin-dillon-for-contact-with-brad-keselowski-wreck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/711391\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR will not penalize Austin Dillon for contact with Brad Keselowski, wreck"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASCAR<\/a> will not penalize Austin Dillon for his contact with Brad Keselowski that wrecked the No. 6 car at Nashville Superspeedway on Sunday. That came out on Tuesday, despite the fact that Keselowski\u2019s spotter accused Dillon of intentionally wrecking the No. 6<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Data did not seem to support the accusation. NASCAR senior director of racing communications Amanda Ellis addressed the incident on the Hauler Talk<\/a> podcast.<\/p>\n

\u201cScott Miller pulled all the data from that incident, and we knew pretty quickly that Austin was out of the throttle (before hitting Keselowski),\u201d Ellis said. \u201cThey obviously tangled on the track, and then the incident happened, right? But we were able to tell pretty quickly that it wasn\u2019t a situation where Austin was in the gas or anything related to that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additionally, Prime Video analyst Steve Letarte broke down the incident on Monday in a NASCAR.com video<\/a>. He determined Austin Dillon had dropped from 100% throttle to 17% throttle at the point of impact.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose two (drivers) clearly kind of had some differences of opinion throughout the race,\u201d Ellis said. \u201cAnd so that one is really more of just a racing incident, and that\u2019s really how NASCAR viewed it on Sunday night.\u201d<\/p>\n

TJ Majors accuses Austin Dillon of intentional wreck<\/p>\n

Tempers flared between Austin Dillon and Brad Keselowski early in the third stage of the Cracker Barrel 400 at Nashville in the NASCAR Cup Series, resulting in a wreck. Keselowski\u2019s crew told him that Dillon was retaliating for an earlier incident.<\/p>\n

Dillon drove through the back of Keselowski on the inside of the track early in Stage 3, sending him spinning. That came after Keselowski had contributed to a Dillon spin earlier in the race.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 3 (Austin Dillon) wrecked you on purpose; he\u2019s mad at you from earlier,\u201d spotter TJ Majors told Keselowski over the team\u2019s radio. That was relayed by The Athletic\u2019s Jordan Bianchi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The earlier incident on the track happened when Ricky Stenhouse Jr. moved for a late pit stop, catching Brad Keselowski off guard. Keselowski then came down again after swerving to the top of the track, cutting off Dillon. Dillon caught his back bumper and went spinning<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So when the two came together again in Stage 3, tensions were already high. For his part, Austin Dillon seemed confused by what happened in front of him.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy did everyone check up there?\u201d he said, per Matt Weaver<\/a>. \u201cI was already on the brake pedal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following the contact and a hard hit with the wall, Brad Keselowski headed to the garage. His day was officially done.<\/p>\n

Keselowski was interviewed by the Amazon Prime crew shortly after exiting the infield care center. He was informed that the broadcast team had heard his crew\u2019s comments on the wreck and was asked his thoughts on the on-track incident with Austin Dillon.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know. I know I got hit from behind,\u201d Brad Keselowski said. \u201cCan\u2019t really put myself in somebody else\u2019s head. But it\u2019s a shame. I felt like we had just made the adjustments on the car we needed to be competitive. It\u2019s pretty clear he wrecked me intentionally after seeing that replay. So turnabout\u2019s fair play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR will not penalize Austin Dillon for his contact with Brad Keselowski that wrecked the No. 6 car…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-711391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711391","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=711391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}