iRacing takes shot at Austin Dillon after Richmond win

Austin Dillon won the Cook Out 400 in controversial fashion last week, and iRacing has a message for him. The online racing organization went to social media to post Dillon’s wreck with Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin while also taking a shot at the NASCAR driver.

“Please don’t do this in iRacing,” iRacing wrote in the X post. Dillon got aggressive during the race’s final lap to secure the victory and playoff spot. However, NASCAR revoked Dillon’s playoff berth since he took out two drivers. Dillon and Richard Childress Racing (RCR) are appealing the decision.

Please don’t do this in iRacing 🤝 pic.twitter.com/pkvHNVF5Oz

— iRacing (@iRacing) August 12, 2024

“I think in all due respect to the appeal process, we looked at this and the totality of everything that happened as you enter Turn 3 and as the cars got to the start/finish line,” NASCAR senior vice president of competition Elton Sawyer said. “So, as we look through all of that data, we came to the conclusion that a line had been crossed. Our sport has been based going for many, many years, forever, on good, hard racing. Contact has been acceptable. We felt like, in this case, that the line was crossed.”

Austin Dillon explains the reason to appeal NASCAR’s ruling

While appearing on the Marty and McGee show this weekend, Dillon explained why he’s appealing NASCAR’s decision. “With that appeal obviously we deserve to be in the playoffs,” Dillon said. “We want to reverse that decision that NASCAR has made to take our playoff eligibility away. We feel like we have a case to stand on and should.”

“I think the biggest thing is to be able to state our case,” Dillon added. “Feel like a lot of people and a lot of people in the industry have given their opinion and we have been celebrating our win, enjoying the fact that the 3 car was the fastest car at Richmond this past weekend. Had a three-second lead with two laps to go.”

Before the Michigan Cup Series race on Sunday, Logano spoke to reporters about Dillon’s punishment. “Well, obviously, I think it’s clear as day what happened,” Logano said. “When you go into the corner, he wasn’t able to get to me, throttled up more to get to me and then turned left to hook Denny. At that point, NASCAR’s forced to make a decision and if you let that go you gotta think about what it does for the integrity of our sport moving forward in the next ten races, right?”