Yes, and that's another infraction. Personally, I think there are those higher up that do not like DEI and some palms were greased under the table to do this to Dale.
Just MHO, but this is very suspicious to me!
There have been many on track incidents this year and last year where in some cases there were penalties and some not. So it does appear to me they don't really follow their own rules all the time.
In this case, I think it was blown out of proportion because it was Jr and they probably thought if they didn't penalize him people would say they were playing favorites.