hmmm didn’t know that- pretty rotten of him to do if he did it on purpose- but so hard to tell as drivers run on the very edge of traction all the time and the slightest little thing can make the tires break traction- hitting a corner at wrong angle, hitting a curb, or even just a small bump (That’s how close they are to losing traction all the time on some tracks)
I’d have to see the incident to see- Was he going stria hgt at the time? In a corner where traction is razor thin line? (I race online- iracing, and we’re always right on the edge of losing traction- just a slight bump from another car- and i mean real slight, can send the car spinnin- and that’s online racing- I imagine in real life racin it’s even worse)
The reason it was such an incident is that Jeff Gordon was going to win and secure a spot in the chase. The spinout triggered a yellow flag and a restart, and Gordon got knocked out of contention.
After the investigation, NASCAR awarded Gordon a spot in the chase (making it 13 in the first round instead of 12), and upped the elimination in the first round to five instead of four.
-PJ