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Elton Sawyer on Larson, Chastain incident: ‘It’s difficult for us to get in the middle’

NASCAR Sr. VP of Competition Elton Sawyer tells SiriusXM NASCAR Radio how NASCAR views the incident involving Kyle Larson and Ross Chastain at Dover Motor Speedway on Monday.

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23 comments

Triple P Productionz May 2, 2023 at 3:22 pm

So don’t get involved, let drivers police themselves, you can’t straddle this fence. If you aren’t gonna let drivers do their thing, then commit to the other way and make it no contact

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Bennie Bullock May 2, 2023 at 3:27 pm

They love talking outta both sides of their mouth. They’ve aloud ross to race carelessly with their inaction.

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Razors__ May 2, 2023 at 3:26 pm

It’s not difficult at all. Chastain has a history, and intentionally wrecked the 15 car. He doesn’t get ANY benefit of doubt.

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Jayanna Kelley May 2, 2023 at 3:28 pm

Did Larson deliberately take Chastain out later in the race? No! Move on..

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Big Hand May 2, 2023 at 3:29 pm

What Lyle Larson did towards the end is nothing compared to what Ross Chastain did.

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Jayanna Kelley May 2, 2023 at 4:03 pm

@Big Hand – That was exactly my point..

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AreaNinety May 2, 2023 at 3:29 pm

Is anyone surprised a RWR car got ran over? Not an excuse for the 1 car but those two cars are consistently field fillers.

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Austin Berasi May 2, 2023 at 3:36 pm

Its racing this stuff happens lol why does everyone act like its unheard of?? Look back at the last 15-20 years of racing it was way worse than this. Let the drivers handle there business in a safe and understanding manor.

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C5Ron7 May 2, 2023 at 3:39 pm

History repeating itself, Chastain just drives thru the 15, didn’t try to go up, or down the track, just straight thru him and he gets away with it, that’s not racing, it’s Wrecking……

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Amy Ballew May 2, 2023 at 3:54 pm

Chastain needs to get outta cup and go bk to arca and work his way bk up again, and maybe by the time he works his way bk up, he’ll drive better and have more respect. Bs Larson was mindin his own buisness, chastain could’ve prevented that, it was on purpose idc what he says.

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Johnny May 2, 2023 at 4:53 pm

He came in second last year in his first year in good equipment. I think he is a bigger talent than people give him credit for. I mean how many times did Larson, the supposed greatest driver there is, come in second during the playoffs when he wasn’t in the most cheated up equipment there is? Oh that’s right never.

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Larry Plummer May 2, 2023 at 3:54 pm

I mean if Poole lifted and Ross was throttling up it’s a racing incident. Not defending Ross here because he’s been in this situation too many times but the 15 is a much slower car and usually in the way no matter who’s behind the wheel. Things like this have been happening in nascar for many years, the intimidator rattled many of cages and people loved it. I think it was a racing incident and Poole was rightfully pissed off and because of who it was that took him out it’s easy to go after Chastain

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Johnny May 2, 2023 at 4:50 pm

Idk, I heard Ross caused the wreck that Dale was killed in.

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Issac Pennington May 2, 2023 at 4:11 pm

But it’s always the #1 lol

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timkis 64 May 2, 2023 at 4:21 pm

considering that one out of every five drivers that ross wrecks ever gets him back, he actually has a good ratio on his side.if every driver he wrecks demolished him in the next few weeks, he would change his approach pretty quickly.ross is forgetting that turnabout IS fair play.

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Johnny May 2, 2023 at 4:49 pm

Ask Denny how that worked out for him.

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James Carter May 2, 2023 at 4:47 pm

Well, NASCAR, let’s have a look at the data, and we’ll have the answer

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Ghetto Streamlabs May 2, 2023 at 4:48 pm

Hmm. Didn’t seem difficult to punish Hamlin for trying to police Chastain’s nonsense…

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Cody Gudleske May 2, 2023 at 5:06 pm

Modern Day swerving Ervin….

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JPS 77 May 2, 2023 at 5:25 pm

NASCAR needs to just let it be, as they should with all incidents like this.

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Nathan1Sixteen May 2, 2023 at 5:28 pm

“It’s difficult”, as if they both haven’t done it before and they have zero data to go off of, lol

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Anita Garrison May 2, 2023 at 5:48 pm

Why is the Media always trying to stir things up?? Then Elton really didn’t answer what Pete was trying to ask. Which I’m assuming, he was referring to Kyle blocking (race altering) Ross at the end of the race.

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Hype bro outta nowhere May 2, 2023 at 6:01 pm

Hamlin chastin …Nascar

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