NASCAR announced Friday it has strengthened its rules for dealing with competitors’ behavior on and off the track.
Jim Cassidy, NASCAR senior vice president of racing operations, told NASCAR.com the revised system did not stem from any specific incident, but one of the new penalties addresses an issue that sounds exactly like an incident during the Chase last year, when Matt Kenseth intentionally crashed race leader Joey Logano at Martinsville.
The revamped conduct rules would ban, “premeditatedly removing another competitor from championship contention in a dangerous manner when not racing for position based on the available evidence and specific circumstances of the incident.