NASCAR 'will not tolerate' Sam Mayer crashing Jeb Burton after Martinsville

UPDATE: Mayer has been suspended and will be replaced by Ryan Sieg for the finale. Full story HERE.

It seems very likely that Sam Mayer’s season will have ended a week early due to his retaliatory intentional crash of Jeb Burton after the checkered flag on Saturday following the Xfinity Series race at Martinsville Speedway.

NASCAR Senior Vice President of Competition Elton Sawyer addressed the incident during a Tuesday morning appearance on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.

“We’ll meet with our team at the R&D Center today, and I know some data and information has already been gathered on that situation,” Sayer said. “I expect something to come out of that. I don’t know exactly what that will be.

“Having those types of incidents after the checkered flag. It’s not something we’re going to tolerate. So we’ll get with our team today and determine what will happen.”  

Who all meets to discuss an incident like this?

“It’s the series director, in this case, Eric Peterson, running point,” Sawyer said. “He’ll talk to both drivers, Sam and Jeb, to get their side of the story. We’ll go back and look at all the replays, plus the race in its entirety, to see what unfolded early on.

“We take all that, sit down and look at similar incidents, and determine how we will move forward. As I said earlier, when things happen after the race, and we start using vehicles to run into each other, that rises to a different level and we will respond accordingly.”

The precedence for crashing another competitor under yellow and/or after the race is a one-week suspension so every likelihood, Mayer will return to competition next year at Daytona.

Mayer was eliminated from championship contention at Martinsville.