NASCAR chose not to penalize Shane van Gisbergen and Austin Hill for on-track incidents last weekend at Chicagoland Speedway, but neither driver will move on just yet.
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Officials will sit both down at the NASCAR hauler on Saturday at Atlanta Motor Speedway to ensure that the conflict does not escalate.
"We want to have a discussion and make sure that it doesn't boil over into a significant problem at Atlanta or beyond," explained Mike Forde, NASCAR vice president of racing communications, during the latest episode of the Hauler Talk podcast.
The conversation stems from a pair of incidents at Chicagoland Speedway. The first occurred when contact from van Gisbergen spun Hill into the outside wall and caused significant damage to the No. 33. Hill then drove back onto the track under caution and door-slammed van Gisbergen.
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Team owner Richard Childress immediately said after the wreck that van Gisbergen's contact was "payback from California." This referenced the inaugural race at Naval Base Coronado in which Hill sparked a wreck that knocked both van Gisbergen and Connor Zilisch out of the race.
Hill did not call it payback after exiting the infield care center, but he provided other comments about the Chicagoland wreck.
"(I'm) sure y'all seen the replay, so if I have to explain it, people probably need to get glasses," he said, per Jordan Bianchi of The Athletic.
Van Gisbergen, for his part, said that he was shooting for the bottom of the track and trying to get clean air. He said that Hill "chopped my nose and got in the wall." He said that he did not make intentional contact.
Neither driver made damning comments over the radio in the immediate aftermath of the wreck, which played a role in NASCAR deciding against penalties.
"We looked to see if there were any anomalies throughout the race and something that spurred this that maybe was payback from earlier," Forde added on Hauler Talk.
"We went through all the radio transmissions to see if there was anything that rose to kind of a smoking gun. Camera angles and all available resources, as we always say. And nothing in our eyes proved definitively this was 100% intentional and penalty-worthy."
Hill and van Gisbergen are not the only drivers sitting down for a meeting with NASCAR this weekend. Another meeting will feature Zane Smith and Carson Hocevar, two other drivers who had a run-in at Chicagoland Speedway.
Smith hit Hocevar from behind early in the race, which sent the No. 77 spinning into the outside wall.
