{"id":22434,"date":"2019-10-21T13:40:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T17:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=22434"},"modified":"2019-10-21T13:40:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T17:40:19","slug":"nascar-spoke-to-garrett-smithley-following-wreck-with-leaders-at-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/10\/21\/nascar-spoke-to-garrett-smithley-following-wreck-with-leaders-at-kansas\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR spoke to Garrett Smithley following wreck with leaders at Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22435\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/10\/smithleykansas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/10\/smithleykansas.jpg 800w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/10\/smithleykansas-594x334.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/10\/smithleykansas-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/10\/smithleykansas-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Steve O&#8217;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&#8217;s Xfinity Sereis race.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style=\"margin: 0.8em 0px 0px; color: #000000; font-family: 'Yahoo Sans'; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-reactid=\"23\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe talked to the driver afterwards,\u201d O\u2019Donnell said. \u201cSpotter communication was not where it should have been. I think you look at the history of what\u2019s happened on the track with each particular driver and address it from there. We do have mechanisms we can pull if it\u2019s 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\u2019re 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.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"23\">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&#8217;s car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve O&#8217;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&#8217;s Xfinity Sereis race. Smithley was five laps down in the race when he ran in the lane of Chase Briscoe and Christopher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,788],"tags":[982,683,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":["post-22434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-xfinity","category-news","tag-garrett-smithley","tag-kansas-speedway","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22434"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=22434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}