“NASCAR didn’t really want to do anything until it got pretty big on social media” Brandon Brown calls out NACAR for the time they have taken to penalize Noah Gregson
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Brandon Brown and Noah Gregson
The Road America Xfinity race had a strong finish which saw the championship[ front runner Ty Gibbs winning his first Road Course race of the season toping reigning cup series champion Kyle Larson who was making his first Xfinity outing of the season at the end of the race to win it. But the main headline that came out from the race was NASCAR failing to penalize Noah Gregson for his overaggressive driving which caused a multicar crash that had all the protentional to turn out to be fatal for a few of the pellets involved.
Noah Gregson drove his No:9 Chevy straight to Sage Karam’s No. 45 Chevy in the race, which he did as part of his revenge for the intense dual they were having until then, which caused a 13-car pile-up between turns 3 and 4 of the track. Brandon Brown was part of the dozen car crash which coasted him a good run and he fell to the ground shortly after he got out of his car following the crash. Now Brown has come forth to express his thoughts on the delay NASCAR had in announcing the penalty for Gregson following his recovery.
Find out what Brandon Brown said
Brandon Brown acknowledged that NASCAR didn’t want to penalize Gregson and they wouldn’t have done it if not for the uproar in social media. He points out that NASCAR didn’t want to make the drivers unhappy that’s why they didn’t penalize him back then which shouldn’t have been the case. He added that the organization made the decisions after the blow-up, especially on Twitter they witnessed.
“NASCAR didn’t really want to do anything until it got pretty big on social media. I get it. They have to try and keep the drivers happy but at the same time, they have to be the parent of us, the sanctioning body. So, they had to do something after it had blown up, basically on Twitter,” Brandon Brown said.
Brandon Brown went on to say that Noah Gregson did call him seeking apology and suggested that everyone was sugar-coating what theNo:9 did then but he is now getting a little slap at his wrist for that. He added that if the NASCAR leadership and JR Motorsports leadership thought there wasn’t anything to do for what happened they would have let it slide and do nothing about it.
“Noah had reached out and called me and apologized already this week but just looking at that incident as a whole, I mean everybody has pretty much sugar-coated what he’s done, and he’s getting a little bit of a slap on the wrist for it. It comes down to NASCAR’s leadership and JR Motorsports’ leadership. If they accept this driving and it’s something that they’re OK with, then whatever, don’t do a thing,” Brandon Brown added.
He went on to point out that if NASCAR is upset about such action, they could do something about it as teams like his are struggling with the limited resources they have pointing out to the fact that he has ran out of road course cars due to the crashes. He added that he is in need to figure something out about the car situation to get them by for the coming races.
“But if they’re actually upset about it then they probably need to do something about it because a team like mine — I told Noah on the phone, we struggle. We don’t have a lot of resources. We can’t rely on — we destroyed too many cars; let’s go grab one of my teammates to get us by. We’re basically out of road course cars, and we’re going to have to figure out what to do there,” says Brandon Brown.
Brandon Brown went on to say that it’s up to the JRM leadership to figure something out to help him to mature as he finds that Noah is not maturing fast enough to get himself to the cup series. He added that they don’t have resources like JRM and has wished they might come up and help them with the resources they lack.
“It’s up to Noah’s team’s leadership to help him mature. Obviously, he’s not maturing as fast as need be to move him up into the Cup Series. We don’t have the resources they have. You’d think that maybe that kind of team would reach out, like, ‘Hey guys, maybe we can spare you a little something to help you out,” added Brandon Brown.
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