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Richard Childress on Austin Dillon ruling: 'Changed NASCAR auto racing ... for good'

.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Expert.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- A discouraged Richard Childress, who has actually raced in NASCAR as a team owner for 55 years, showed that NASCAR's judgment and its appeals decisions that revoked Austin Dillon's playoff spot will certainly possess a substantial impact on NASCAR racing as well as he additionally considers themself having actually acquired the most significant penalty in NASCAR past in the money dropped in certainly not making the playoffs." Their ruling has modified NASCAR competing on the last lap forever," Childress pointed out Sunday just before Mug technique at Darlington Raceway, later on incorporating, "It mores than a million bucks to us. The biggest great ever before in NASCAR. I'm just let down, discouraged, let down. That's all I can easily state." Richard Childress Dashing appealed the NASCAR selection from Dillon's Aug. 11 win at Richmond where he bumped into the rear of Joey Logano and then right into the edge of Denny Hamlin in the final turns to outdistance. A chauffeur gains an automated berth to the 16-driver playoff industry along with the triumph (so long as there may not be much more than 16 champions during the course of the time), but NASCAR withdrawed that berth under a regulation that says the win have to be actually unencumbered by infractions of NASCAR guidelines or activities harmful to NASCAR.A three-member NASCAR-appointed appeals board rejected RCR's 1st beauty Aug. 20 and NASCAR's last charm police officer also supported the NASCAR selection Aug. 25. The wording in the NASCAR rulebook gives NASCAR "exclusive discretion" to establish what actions are actually detrimental and also what are actually guidelines offenses, and also NASCAR possesses a general guideline that a chauffeur could be penalized for contact with one more chauffeur." If our team had not punished it, at that point I think what our team would view over the following 12 full weeks would certainly look considerably different," NASCAR Head of state Steve Phelps mentioned on the FOX Sports' "Kevin Harvick's Delighted Hr" podcast. "Our company just can't possess it." It definitely boils down to 'what do you prefer your sporting activity to become?' And also is actually why I presume we concluded the means we did considering that we are actually certainly not demolition derby our company're only not. Our company are actually a sporting activity that if our team had actually done nothing, we would've opened ourselves up for a wreck, frankly." Each Logano and Hamlin were critical of the relocation, claiming that both steps were intentional accidents. Other drivers also claimed they would not have helped make such actions. Childress claimed that neither action was egregious." The vehicle drivers right now, they know where a series is, or even they assume they do," Childress stated. "They don't. If you enter an auto size-- two-and-three-quarters was precisely just how far back he was actually [of Logano], and the various other vehicle decelerates 3 miles a hr on the last lap, you're going to bump in a little bit of to obtain [him] up the race course. Is actually that over today?" What is free throw line? And afterwards if you most likely to dashing someone off the corner and also they receive loosened [as Hamlin performed] as well as enter you, at that point does that suggest you run out the Chase? That's all I got to mention concerning the ruling. Yet it has actually transformed racing for a win for sure." The NASCAR appeals board is composed of 3 members coming from a pool of around 20 market workers (not employed through NASCAR), former chauffeurs as well as previous team principals. ULTIMATE TOURS: Austin Dillon gets polychromous flag in controversial overtime finish at Cook Out 400 "A hired allure group-- it's tough to hammer a consultation in everything," Childress pointed out. Childress suggested he would certainly choose his phrases very carefully-- he doesn't want to get on the poor side of more NASCAR choices. He pointed out the group is going to certainly not take lawsuit, which might possess placed him in more crosshairs with NASCAR rules that mostly forbid teams coming from taking legal action against the allowing body (however certainly they could fight the legitimacy of that stipulation). " If it was actually a legal suit, our team possessed attorneys look at both edges of it, there was no other way our company would certainly possess lost," Childress said.Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has invested many years covering motorsports, including over 30 Daytona 500s, along with stints at ESPN, Sporting News, NASCAR Scene publication and The (Daytona Beach) News-Journal. Observe him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Get a lot more coming from NASCAR Cup Set Observe your favorites to get relevant information concerning activities, information and more.