NASCAR May Have Gotten Their Point Across About Post-Race Penalties
As it stands right now, NASCAR hasn’t announced if any driver failed post-race inspection after New Hampshire.
This is somewhat of a surprise, given how NASCAR recently took a stand on what it would do to drivers who did fail the LIS post-race inspection, and how only a P4-level failure would draw any sort of penalty.
There is also the issue of drivers swerving after the race, something NASCAR noticed and would be looking into if it happened again, but it looks like the organization was able to get its point across to drivers, as there seems to be no post-race issues coming out of Loudon.
NASCAR VP Steve O-Donnell was recently quoted by USA Today as saying:
"“I want to make clear to everybody here that if in NASCAR’s judgment (there are) any measures to circumvent what happens in post-race inspection, we’re going to react. We know that’s subjective, but ask all of you not to put it in our hands, because we will react if we have to. I think everybody knows what that means.”"
The way NASCAR is going to handle post-race issues moving forward is still a little hazy, but the organization is watching drivers and after this warning at New Hampshire, teams may have been scared just enough to prevent any post-race issues moving forward in the Chase.