Austin Dillon slams Austin Cindric, calls for his suspension after 'intentionally' wrecking him

Austin Dillon is calling for Austin Cindric to be suspended, as the Richard Childress Racing wheelman believes he was intentionally wrecked at Gateway.

With 22 laps remaining in the Enjoy Illinois 300, Cindric got into the back end of Dillon, which forced the No. 3 car to collect Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Evidently, Dillon doesn’t believe the contact was any accident.

Check out the video shared to Twitter by Frontstretch below, where a heated Dillon called Cindric out, and pleaded for NASCAR to step in.

Austin Dillon didn’t mince his words toward Austin Cindric.

“I was intentionally wrecked by him, hooked right, just like Chase and Denny and Bubba’s deal. He better be suspended next week.”

(from ⁦@stephen_stumpf⁩) pic.twitter.com/CpZEwjpzAr

— Frontstretch (@Frontstretch) June 5, 2023

“I was wrecked intentionally by him,” stated Dillon. “Hooked right, just like Chase [Elliott] and Denny [Hamlin] and Bubba [Wallace’s] deal. He better be suspended next week.”

Additionally, Dillon isn’t the only one who believes he was taken out of the race, as Richard Childress, Dillon’s grandfather and car owner, claimed that Cindric wrecked Dillon “intentionally” on Sunday, per Jeff Gluck of The Athletic.

Below is footage of Sunday’s incident involving Cindric, Dillon and Stenhouse. You can judge for yourself as to whether this could’ve been intentional.

The accident warranted a red flag in an attempt to fix the wall before the final 20-plus laps from World Wide Technology Raceway.

Austin Dillon and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. go into the wall. Looked like Austin Cindric helped that one. Red flag as the wall needs to be fixed. #NASCAR pic.twitter.com/MkznvxZoZQ

— The Comeback (@thecomeback) June 5, 2023

Many who watched Sunday’s race believe the contact made by Cindric was intentional. Some are calling on NASCAR to suspend the driver, as the sport has made the move recently.

Last week, NASCAR suspended Elliott for right-rear hooking Denny Hamlin midway through the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Many fans compared Cindric’s actions to Elliott’s a week ago.

Elliott did not participate in the Enjoy Illinois 300.

In both incidents Dillon mentioned, NASCAR slapped Elliott and Wallace with one-race suspensions. Wallace’s right-rear hook came during the 2022 season while Elliott’s happened last week.

Alas, NASCAR could’ve set a precedent that’s impossible to break away from. In the past, drivers have been allowed to police themselves for better or worse, and now it seems as it everyone is calling for NASCAR to step in every time there’s an incident. Drivers of the past have to be rolling their eyes.

Regardless of how you feel about Austin Dillon or the situation as a whole, it would be slightly hypocritical if NASCAR didn’t punish Austin Cindric after what they did to Chase Elliott last weekend. The can of worms is opened and all out on the table, now we’ll sit back and see where NASCAR goes from here.

On3’s Dustin Schutte contributed to this article.