Austin Dillon speculates on penalties NASCAR will hand down for controversial Richmond win

As the NASCAR world waits potential penalties stemming from the final stages of the race at Richmond Raceway on Sunday, Austin Dillon is fully anticipating some kind of discipline.

Dillon slammed into the back of Joey Logano‘s car on the white flag lap, spinning Logano around and taking him out of the race. After the fact, Dillon admitted that contact was intentional.

One of the more controversial elements of the entire ordeal was that Dillon’s team urged him to wreck Logano and then Denny Hamlin while on the team radio. Austin Dillon’s spotter might well be in hot water over that.

“Yeah, you know, I mean I’m expecting something obviously,” Dillon said on the Dale Jr. Download podcast on Tuesday morning. “As far as my spotter, I talked to him and I truly think for all of us, the emotions were really high in our situation for the 3 car. We’ve been beat up, banged up for a while now and with two laps to go we had a three-second lead at Richmond and a caution comes out that probably shouldn’t have ever happened. But it did.

“And then now we’re here talking about things that take away from the car that we really had and the opportunity that we took.”

Austin Dillon won the race after sliding past both Logano and Hamlin with a little contact.

Things might have gotten heated on the track after the race, but Dillon celebrated the win, which was a long time coming, with his infant in his arms.

The post-race scene was a bit chaotic, as Richard Childress denied that anyone on the radio had told Dillon to wreck other drivers, only to be presented with audio evidence.

At this point, what happened is clear. It’s just a matter of what, if any, punishment NASCAR decides to hand out.

“From my spotter, I feel like he became a fan in the stands on the last lap of Austin Dillon and RCR,” Dillon said. “He was just saying what came to his mind in the moment, and it was wrong, and I’m sure there’s going to be something from that. But what he was saying didn’t change what happened in Turn 3 and 4. I’m driving at that point for all it’s worth and he’s just keyed in the mic talking. So I know he’s bummed about that. But I mean he’s had my back through a lot of the rough patches that we’ve had over at RCR. I can’t fault him for being a fan in that moment.”