A little back and forth with Daniel Suarez preceded the weekend in Chicago that resulted in a substantial $50,000 fine for Bubba Wallace for smashing into Alex Bowman’s door during a cool-down lap after the race.
Chase Elliott was relieved to discover his own name off the disciplinary list. After a few inadvertent bumps on the track, neither of them purposefully made hard contact, which may have saved Elliott from receiving a citation.
But the driver of the No. 9 car was never particularly worried.
Elliott remarked, “I honestly didn’t really think about it, because we barely rubbed doors,” as reported by Bob Pockrass of FOX Sports. “At most, that was our only point of contact.
Although I haven’t looked at Bubba’s circumstances in any detail, I believe that my perspective differs greatly from his. Wallace doored Bowman during the cool-down lap while he was in the middle of wiping his brow.
Elliott didn’t think Wallace had shown enough even in that case to justify the $50,000 fine that NASCAR imposed on Wallace.
“In my opinion, he shouldn’t have been penalized. “I comprehend,” stated Chase Elliott. “I understand, but some of that material is really getting lost in the weeds.
It was sad, I suppose, given the circumstances and Alex’s victory in the race, but nobody was wounded. However, I didn’t think it was a big deal. Regarding his individual exchanges with Suarez, neither driver appeared to be in worse shape.
Even though Suarez questioned NASCAR’s inconsistent application of the code of conduct rule, he still believed Elliott shouldn’t have been punished for the incident.
The two were a victim of a tightly packed field and wet conditions.
Elliott had a frustrated late contact because of it, but it wasn’t enough to result in consequences for whatever attempted revenge Elliott may have had. Chase Elliott said,
“He and I spoke after the race, and I understood—it was definitely difficult conditions.” “Obviously hated it. Our entire day was wrecked by my extreme difficulty with the final set of wets.
Thus, in the end, I kind of see things like that as my own fault rather than anyone else’s. I made things difficult for us.
It’s unfortunate that some positions were lost on the final lap’s turn. To be honest, though, I don’t think he intended to turn me around.
I was expecting him to jump to the bottom, but he didn’t. I had gone into him in the preceding corner, when Brad Keselowski’s car, number six, had us kind of stacked up. We thus discussed everything, and I think we both understood each other, thus everything worked out well.
