NASCAR plans to meet with Austin Dillon and Cole Custer this weekend at Auto Club Speedway after their incident in Saturday’s Xfinity race at Phoenix Raceway.
Steve O’Donnell, NASCAR executive vice president and chief racing development officer, said Monday on “The Morning Drive” that officials parked Dillon after his actions in the Xfinity race and met with Dillon, his crew chief and spotter.
Custer got into Dillon’s car in the final laps of the race, causing it to hit the wall. Dillon slowly drove away and waited for Custer to get near him. Dillon then slowly cut across Custer’s path and they made light contact.
“We made sure Austin understood where we were and where we stood on his actions that took place,’’ O’Donnell said on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. “We plan on meeting with both drivers prior to practice out in California. We’ll continue to look at the videos, but, at this point, feel like we are where we are in terms of that conversation, but again leave the door open as we continue to review. It was a really short night coming back from Phoenix, so we’ll take our time from that.’’
After the race, Custer tweeted the incident was his fault and Dillon responded.
Dillon is not scheduled to drive in this weekend’s Xfinity race at Auto Club Speedway.
Cost us and the 2 a good finish, 100% my fault. Happy with how much better we got our car, pretty good there at the end.
— Cole Custer (@ColeCuster) March 18, 2017
Thanks for this ✌🏻 https://t.co/29RX8vAmep
— Austin Dillon (@austindillon3) March 18, 2017