Kevin Harvick said during Sunday's prerace show that NASCAR should have suspended Austin Cindric following last week's race at COTA.

NASCAR's decision not to suspend Austin Cindric for his hit on Ty Dillon came down to it happening at a road course instead of an oval. Dillon warns that this is the exact type of gray area that gets NASCAR into trouble.

NASCAR penalized Austin Cindric 50 points and fined him $50,000 on Wednesday for intentionally spinning Ty Dillon in last weekend’s Cup Series race at Circuit of the Americas.

Last week at COTA, Austin Cindric turned Ty Dillon around in retaliation. NASCAR deemed it worthy of a penalty, but not suspension. In the past on high-speed ovals, officials have suspended drivers for a race for right-rear hooks.

Just like on the tight confines of a short track, whenever the NASCAR Cup Series gets the opportunity to tackle the twists and turns of a road course, there ten

NASCAR penalized Austin Cindric for hooking Ty Dillon at the COTA race but did not suspend the veteran driver. When the penalty was announced, NASCAR explained why Cindric was not suspended.

Austin Cindric has been punished after taking out Ty Dillon in the Cup Series race at Circuit of the Americas on Sunday, and Dale Earnhardt Jr. gave his view