On Tuesday morning, NASCAR’s Senior VP of Competition, Elton Sawyer, was on The Morning Drive on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio and made mention that there would be no further action taken against Austin Cindric for an incident occurring between he and Austin Dillon on Lap 220 of last Sunday’s Enjoy Illinois 300 at the World Wide Technology Raceway.

Despite Dillon and team owner Richard Childress calling for Cindric to be suspended for this weekend’s NASCAR Cup Series race at the Sonoma Raceway, NASCAR has reviewed the data and determined that nothing more is needing to be done.

Sawyer said that NASCAR would talk to both drivers this weekend in Sonoma to be sure that all is good, but noted that there was nothing there to merit them needing to step in and take more action than that.

“We didn’t see anything and haven’t seen anything that really would rise to a level that would be a suspension or a penalty,” Sawyer said on Tuesday morning. “It looked like hard racing. One car coming up a little bit and another car going down.”

Sawyer said that they take these incidents seriously when cars are turned head-on into one another or into the wall. He said he personally spent a lot of time on Monday looking through all the data and TV footage and just didn’t see anything more than “hard racing.”

Childress disagreed and said in his race winning press conference that he felt like Dillon was dumped on purpose.

“Austin (Dillon) has had some really good runs. He had drove up to about 10th until the 2 car wrecked him in there on purpose, sort of a payback,” he noted.

Nevertheless, I’m 100% okay with this ruling. When watching the replay closely, it appears Dillon moved up some and Cindric move down some and the two met in the middle. What I’m not okay with is folks wanting every crash now to be scrutinized.

I get Chase Elliott is the five-time defending Most Popular Driver and single handily moves the needle within the sport. I got it. However, what he did in the Coca-Cola 600 was egregious and merited a suspension.

The precedent was set last Fall with Bubba Wallace doing the exact same thing to Kyle Larson as Elliott did to Denny Hamlin. You had to make the call to suspend Elliott for Gateway.

This move though, was not like those two and those saying pandora’s box was opened by using data to suspend Elliott is off base. That box isn’t opened. At some point, there’s a human element here and you can see with your own eyes that Cindric and Dillon’s run-in was far different than Elliott and Hamlin and Wallace and Larson’s.

I don’t want to be talking every week about suspensions from on track actions and glad this decision was no further action needed.