NASCAR officials with meet with Xfinity Series drivers Saturday at Darlington to discuss their actions in a wreck-filled race last weekend at Martinsville that a senior executive called a “disaster.”
The Martinsville Xfinity race had 14 cautions. The final 100 laps of the 256-lap event had nine cautions and the race ended with Sammy Smith knocking Taylor Gray out of the lead in Turn 3 on the final lap and triggering a multi-car crash as the field raced to the finish.
Elton Sawyer expressed his disappointment Wednesday on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio's “The Morning Drive” with how the drivers raced at Martinsville.
“The Xfinity guys have an opportunity to go back there (to Martinsville) in the fall and redeem themselves on a race, obviously a lot of discussion around,” Sawyer said.
“I’m not sure who was driving the cars because most of the Xfinity guys that I know and been around and watched them race, watched them race at Homestead the week before, I think there was other drivers in the car because it was a disaster.”
NASCAR penalized Smith 50 points and fined him $25,000 for his actions at the end of the race. NASCAR also fined Taylor Gray $5,000 for a confrontation in the infield care center. NASCAR fined Jeb Burton $5,000 for a separate confrontation in the infield care center.
