NASCAR spoke to Garrett Smithley following wreck with leaders at Kansas

Steve O’Donnell, NASCAR executive vice president and chief racing development officer, said that there had been talks with Garrett Smithely following an incident which occurred with the leaders near the end of Saturday’s Xfinity Sereis race.

Smithley was five laps down in the race when he ran in the lane of Chase Briscoe and Christopher Bell leading to a crash late in the race.

“We talked to the driver afterwards,” O’Donnell said. “Spotter communication was not where it should have been. I think you look at the history of what’s happened on the track with each particular driver and address it from there. We do have mechanisms we can pull if it’s something we see a pattern with. This one was certainly unfortunate with the leaders out there and created an entirely different race. We communicate from the tower as well as we’re coming down the closing laps to let it play out and give the leaders room. That one was not how we wanted it to play out for sure.”

It was not long ago that Smithley was at the center of an incident with Kyle Busch in the Cup Series playoff opener at Las Vegas when Busch ran into the back of the slower running Smtihely’s car.

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