Richard Childress claims Joey Logano, Denny Hamlin would have pulled same move as Austin Dillon

There will be plenty of talk in the coming days about whether the way Austin Dillon won the Cook Out 400 should be allowed in the sport, but at least one person has his back. That’s team owner (and Dillon’s grandfather) Richard Childress .

The ending of the race was highly controversial.

After a late caution came out to send the race to overtime, Dillon, who was leading the race prior to the caution, got a poor restart. He trailed Joey Logano and it was clear he wasn’t going to have enough ground to make up the gap on the final lap.

So, partially at the behest of his crew on the radio , Dillon slammed into Logano’s back bumper and spun him out. Then as Denny Hamlin slipped to the inside of the track and started to pull away, Dillon clipped his back right quarter panel, sending him spinning and out of the way.

Austin Dillon won the race by a narrow margin.

And Childress had some pretty pointed words after the race when asked about the controversial tactic.

“They would’ve done it to him,” Childress said, according to Frontstretch’s Daniel McFadin .

Both Logano and Hamlin would likely have taken exception to that take, given their comments in the aftermath of the race.

Hamlin found fault with NASCAR for not penalizing in situations like that, thus making it easier for drivers to take that route in the event they feel the need, like Austin Dillon did.

“Absolutely a line was crossed,” Hamlin said on the post-race broadcast . “But it’s an invisible line and it’s not defined. I mean they have rules and provisions for stuff like this, but they never take action for it.”

Hamlin was asked if Austin Dillon’s move to wreck both drivers was fair or foul.

“It’s obviously foul, but it’s fair in NASCAR,” he said. “We’re just a different league, right, where there is no penalties for rough driving or anything like that. So it opens up the opportunity for Austin to be able to just do whatever he wants.”

Logano was a little less PC about things.

“It’s chickenshit, no doubt about it,” Logano said. “He’s four car-lengths back, not even close. Then he wrecks the 11… And then he’s going to go up there and thank God and praise everything with his baby. It’s a bunch of BS, it’s not even close. I mean, I get it, bump-and-run, I get it. I didn’t back up the corner at all, he came in there and just drove through me. It’s ridiculous that’s the way we race. Unbelievable.”

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