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Rick Mast: I Wish NASCAR Wouldn't Have Penalized Austin Dillon · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Hi, everybody. Rick Mast here.
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  I guess I'm the only living human being in this country that
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  has yet to weigh in on the fast go.
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  That was Richmond Sunday night, right?
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  Well, there's a couple reasons for it.
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  Number one, I was a little incapacitated for a couple days,
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  a little under the weather. And when I finally started
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  coming out of that and feeling better, it was last night, which
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  is Tuesday night. And I'm thinking, I don't know,
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  I want to be taught let's just wait on NASCAR's verdict.
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  Well, NASCAR handed down the verdict.
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  As we all know, Austin Dillon, his win was not stripped, but he
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  he's not eligible for the play offs.
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  OK, now this goes to a long this goes to a big much bigger, much
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  bigger, much bigger thing going on here.
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  This goes back to one of the reasons Tony Stewart left as a
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  driver. One of the reasons some of the
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  veteran drivers are, oh, man, disgusted with the way we drive,
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  Dale, Not disgusted, but just not their way, the way they were
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  taught. You know, we know when we have a
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  green white checkered, that's probably somebody's going to get
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  wrecked. Whoever's leading at the green
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  white checkered is probably not going to win.
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  And the guys, they just, you know, they instead of racing,
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  they knock each other out of the way.
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  That's the way, that's the way it's been going for a while,
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  right? We all agree to that.
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  And you know, like with me, man, if I had to drive today, in
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  today's world, I wouldn't make it.
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  I just, you know, the, the, the, the way the guys do.
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  And I'm, I'm not knocking what they do.
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  That's just the way of the, it's just the lay of the land now.
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  That's the way they do it. And you know, it just didn't
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  work. It wouldn't have worked in my
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  time, in my era, Just we did it differently.
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  So with this penalty, you know, the end result, the end result
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  of what Dylan did really is no different than what we've seen
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  many guys do many times. I mean, you, you bump and run
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  you, you move the guy out, sometimes hit the wall,
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  sometimes they spin, they wreck, they do the deal.
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  But never have we had anything like this taken away, like it
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  was taken away from Dylan, right?
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  And I guess we all know that all the drivers, everybody's fussing
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  about, you know, the rubbing and the bumping and the moving guys
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  out of the way. But you know, there's never that
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  line that you that NASCAR I think felt like you crossed that
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  they would have to step in. Well, the line's been determined
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  it it's now 4 carlets. If you're 4 carlets back or
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  three, maybe it was three and you make a hard effort to go in
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  there and just turn the guy. We're not going to allow that to
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  happen. All right, Well, if you 2
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  carlets back or one car length back and you bump the guy and
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  move him out of the way and win then or spend the guy.
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  I mean, we've spend, we've seen plenty, plenty times when the
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  guy in second place hits the guy in first and actually spends him
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  and the guy goes on and wins the race, right?
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  And no penalties. But this time NASCAR took a
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  stance. And I'm telling you something
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  guys, it's the it's the eye test.
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  This thing, it did not pass the eye test, right?
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  And the problem with NASCAR on their side is, you know, what,
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  what, what, what passes the eye test, what you know from here on
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  out. If a guy's one car length behind
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  and bumps the guy and gets by him right, and he happens to
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  spin, all right, that's OK. If he's two car, if he's three
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  car lengths back and catches him and runs into him and spins him,
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  do we do the same thing? I don't know where that line is.
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  I don't know that NASCAR really knows where that line is.
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  And believe me, guys, when I tell you this, NASCAR does not
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  want to own this. They don't want to have to get
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  in the middle of this. The best thing about our sport
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  is all one of the best things about our sport has always been
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  self policing. We take care, the drivers take
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  care of it themselves, right? We always have.
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  It's a self policing sport. NASCAR does last thing we want
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  to do, they want to do is step in and do something like this
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  when these things go on. And but this thing that the eye
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  test was so bad on this that I guess they felt like they had to
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  do something. And, you know, keeping the dude
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  out of the playoffs or, or making that one where he can't
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  get in the playoffs. That was that's pretty big.
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  You know, probably if they'd have took the win and kept him
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  in the playoffs, which you couldn't do that, right?
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  But they, the way they did it to me, they just set themselves up
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  for all right, we're going to have to start policing this.
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  And I'm, I'm afraid, I'm afraid that down the road, you know,
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  we're going to get in some more back and forwards.
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  He should have done this. They should have done that.
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  NASCAR didn't do this. NASCAR did do that.
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  You know, I just feel like they're opening themselves up
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  for, gosh, more scrutiny when these things happen.
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  If they make it, if they come out with a penalty or they don't
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  come out with a penalty, right. And who's involved and who's not
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  involved? That that's that's the muddy the
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  the Muddy Waters part of this that I just detest that I hate.
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  You know, I wish, you know, I wish NASCAR don't penalize him
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  the the next week 22 Carr takes care of the three or the first
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  week of the play offs. You take care of the three.
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  You police it yourself. You know, you you take care of
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  it yourself. But you know, the eye tests and
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  the social media and everybody fussing and raising cane about
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  this deal, you know, you know, you know, I mean, basically the
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  drivers back NASCAR into a corner.
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  They don't want to do this, but they've had to do it.
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  They've had to step in. I would not like to be NASCAR's
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  hierarchy figuring this thing out from here on, you know, the
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  deal and to go get a little more detail.
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  You know, if maybe if Dylan had went in there and maybe just got
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  him without wreck anymore said, man, I didn't mean to wreck him.
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  I just meant to try to get him loose.
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  I don't know if any of that would have mattered.
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  I I don't blame Dylan for the for Hamlin wrecking the way I've
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  looked at it, you know, if Hamlin could have kept it down
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  low, I think maybe that it went on.
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  Who who knows about all that? But anyhow.
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  And then they find Logano for the deal on pit Rd., which is,
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  you know, rightfully so, you just don't do that.
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  Then people are fussing about, well, we got all the people on
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  pit Rd. Well, what I saw was mainly pit
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  crew members on pit Rd. except for the winning team.
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  The winning team is where all the mob of people were.
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  And that's where Joey got himself a little bit of trouble
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  there. And I get it when people are
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  saying these people shouldn't be out there.
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  I mean, NASCAR, they'll they'll address that.
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  But but man, going back to the to the penalty, I mean, that's a
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  stout penalty, guys. I mean, it's we're taught, the
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  drivers are taught sponsors. Everybody's taught when and
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  you're in. What do they say when and you're
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  in when and you're in. Dylan won, he's in three days
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  later, guess what? He's not in, he's out, he's out,
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  right. So golly bum, we can we could go
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  into this little bit more depth in the detail, but that's my
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  first reaction to this. I think I'll get some more stuff
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  going here and let y'all know a little bit a little bit more
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  about this tomorrow. Anyhow, I'm still coming out
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  about a little incapacitated deal.
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  Not feeling the greatest, but I guess what look here, see this?
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  This is a bed. You know where I'm at again
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  again, I'm at the ocean. I'm at the ocean again folks.
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  That's right. All this excitement going on
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  with NASCAR and I'm at the ocean.
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  But I reported tomorrow again. I'll be reporting tomorrow again
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  on this stuff. Guys to the loo.