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To answer my own question, here is a Jeff Burton interviewed on the issue:

JEFF BURTON: I have a tremendous amount of faith that NASCAR does not want their race impacted by an illegal action. And I have a tremendous amount of faith that NASCAR, with the proper amount of time and proper amount of evidence, will deem someone either not guilty or guilty and then punish them accordingly. I have not actively gone out and pursued the footage to make the determination upon myself if Robby was guilty or not, because it's irrelevant to me. It doesn't matter to me who did it, but it is relevant to NASCAR. I have a tremendous amount of faith that they will look at it and if the evidence is there that someone, whoever it happens to be, should be penalized, that person will be penalized. Will that help me at the end of the day? It won't do a thing for me. Whatever points we lost or whatever points we gained based on that incident can't be given back and can't be given away. It is what it is and that's gone. There's no remedy for that. So it's not going to affect me either way. My anger about it Sunday night was certainly directed toward how it affected me and my team and our sponsors. No question about it. But in retrospect, where we are today is to make sure it doesn't happen again. And where we are today is NASCAR's place to make sure that if this...that people won't do that kind of thing, and if they do, make sure they wish they hadn't. There is no remedy. To me, it's over. I don't have hard feelings about it. I'm not mad about it. It happened. Again, I go back I put it on my own shoulders. I'm the one that got a tire down. I'm the one that caused that problem. I'm the root of the problem. I allowed a half a second lapse of thinking put us in the position for something bad to happen. And by the way, it happened. That's how close this championship is. You just can't afford any mistakes. I did it. It's my fault. I put us in the position. And beyond that, it's whatever NASCAR decides to do, that's what they'll do.

Full interview found here:
Motorsport.com Jeff Burton interview published 11-1-06