NASCAR, in many eyes, made a questionable decision by not only reducing William Byron’s penalty involving his incident with Denny Hamlin because the repercussions of the said decision really started a domino effect simply due to the timing of it.

The appeal’s outcome was announced a full race later, which ultimately meant that the playoff standings also got hit and altered, a domino effect.

One of the victims of this effect was Stewart Haas Racing’s, Chase Briscoe.

Speaking ahead of the race at ROVAL this Sunday, Briscoe opened up on his take on the way the whole penalty and appeal thing got carried out looping him in in the process without his fault or involvement whatsoever.

“I respect the appeal process,” Briscoe said. “I think it’s something that we need. But there is, I think, zero reason why we should ever run a race in the playoffs with an appeal (pending).”

“It wouldn’t have bothered me if I would have known he got those 25 points before we went to Talladega but it was the fact I raced Talladega totally different, thinking I was in a totally different points situation than what I’m in now,” he continued.

“That’s the really frustrating part for me.”

It’s worth mentioning how when Hendrick Motorsports and Byron’s appeal decision was announced, many fans called out NASCAR for being biased towards Rick Hendrick’s team.

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Denny Hamlin had a surprisingly simple reaction to NASCAR altering Byron’s penalty

Denny Hamlin was the other guy in the William Byron penalty ordeal. Now, normally you would expect the Joe Gibbs Racing driver to go ballistic in the situation, which was the overturning of the penalty, but that wasn’t the case.

Because Hamlin had a rather simple and calm reply when asked for his reaction.

“It’s fortunate for him, unfortunate for me,” the veteran said recently.

With that said, do you think NASCAR could’ve handled this whole situation differently? Or was what happened to Briscoe simply ‘collateral damage’?

Let us know in the comments below.

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