[Political Junkie Too]

It was fully investigated. They have radio transmissions between Bowyer and his spotter talking about it. Bowyer had no cars around him, and he was out of contention for that race, so he had nothing to lose.

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

[Bob434]

thanks- wow- that was scummy of him then- i see they are friends today though- but i’ll bet gordon was plenty ticked at the time