Richard Childress Racing driver Kyle Busch was not deemed to be involved in Sunday’s NASCAR Overtime restart wreck at Nashville Superspeedway, NASCAR Cup Series Managing Director Brad Moran explained Tuesday in a radio appearance with SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.

Though his No. 8 RCR Chevrolet did make contact with the wall in the aftermath of an incident between Kyle Larson and Ross Chastain on the second of a series-record five overtimes, Busch was lined up in the fourth position for the ensuing green flag despite slowing to avoid the incident and getting passed by other cars as a result.

“It’s not so much getting his spot back. His spots weren’t taken away,” Moran said. “Our rule clearly states that you must maintain a reasonable speed — reasonable speed for what track conditions are at the time. We don’t want to encourage drivers to stay on the gas and just bang their way through. What he did was he avoided the incident. We deemed him not involved in that incident. He didn’t stop. If he stopped, he probably would have ended up toward the back of the field.”

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