{"id":34077,"date":"2022-10-19T12:03:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T16:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=34077"},"modified":"2022-10-19T12:03:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T16:03:57","slug":"bubba-wallace-nascar-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=34077","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR suspends Bubba Wallace for a race over Las Vegas crash – Autoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bubba Wallace received a one race suspension from NASCAR<\/a> after an investigation determined he deliberately spun reigning Cup champion Kyle Larson at Las Vegas<\/a> in a \u201cdangerous act\u201d of retaliation before confronting him afterward.<\/p>\n

Wallace had a shoving match with Larson after Sunday’s incident at Las Vegas and also pushed away a NASCAR official. The suspension handed down Tuesday falls under NASCAR’s behavioral policy, and technically could cover most of Wallace’s actions at Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

But Steve O\u2019Donnell, the executive in charge of competition and racing operations, said the penalties were for Wallace’s dangerous and deliberate retaliation against Larson, not the fracas a few moments later.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we look at how that incident occurred, in our minds, (it was) really a dangerous act that we thought was intentional and put other competitors at risk,\u201d O\u2019Donnell said on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.<\/p>\n

Still, Wallace’s suspension for this Sunday’s race at Homestead-Miami Speedway is a rare step: Wallace is the first Cup Series driver to be suspended for an on-track incident since Matt Kenseth was parked for two races in 2015 for an incident at Martinsville.<\/p>\n