Kevin Harvick said during Sunday's prerace show that NASCAR should have suspended Austin Cindric following last week's race at COTA.
NASCAR communications' Mike Forde explains why Austin Cindric wasn't suspended after COTA on the latest episode of Hauler Talk.
Austin Cindric is short 50 points and $50,000 lighter in his wallet thanks to his retaliation against Ty Dillon. Cindric right rear hooked Dillon on the track at COTA.
Cindric retaliated with a right-rear hook on Dillon, which led to Dillon's car spinning wildly. To Dillon and his team, this driving appeared deliberate. Surprisingly, NASCAR officials decided not to penalize Cindric during the race, although there's a chance they might review it in the coming week.
Austin Cindric intentionally keeps a very limited supply of his fellow Cup drivers’ phone numbers, but he needed some digits Sunday after crashing out at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Kyle Larson’s, of course.
Austin Cindric was too furious at Kyle Larson to talk to him after the Atlanta NASCAR Cup race, but he knew he wanted to speak with him after he cooled down, so he resorted to a traditional means of communication—he gave his business card to Hendrick Motorsports executives Jeff Andrews and Chad Knaus.