Tracy, 54, has been an everyday competitor in SRX races since its inaugural season in 2021. The collection was based by three-time NASCAR Cup Sequence champion Tony Stewart, operating six races each summer time.
Tracy has but to overlook a race, recording one podium in 15 begins. On Thursday, he was battling with Josef Newgarden for fifth with simply 12 laps to go in the principle occasion. Tracy squeezed Newgarden into the surface wall, igniting a multi-car crash. Hailie Deegan, Ken Schrader, and 2022 SRX champion Marco Andretti had been all collected within the ensuing crash.
The collection opted to droop Tracy on Friday night time, lower than 24 hours after the occasion.
“We take points concerning driver security extraordinarily critically at SRX,” stated SRX Chief Govt Officer, Don Hawk. “This isn’t a call we take frivolously. It’s our accountability to make sure that we foster a aggressive, and most significantly, a secure racing surroundings. I’ve been in touch with Paul straight and we recognize his cooperation on this matter.”
Instantly following the checkered flag, Tracy known as the incident “laborious racing” and didn’t take accountability for it.
“I imply Newgarden and I had been bouncing off of one another for a few laps,” he advised ESPN. “I bought a nostril forward of him, half a automobile size forward of him and I simply bought hooked and turned sideways down the straightaway. It was simply laborious racing on the finish there with 10 laps to go, and all people’s going for it laborious. It is a powerful monitor to get off the nook, it is a unhealthy deal for everyone.”
Schrader, 68, has began over 750 Cup races and was making his fourth SRX begin this week. He was furious, and declared that he wouldn’t return if Tracy remained.
“I am fairly certain inexperienced [Tracy] had black [Newgarden] shoved into the surface wall … [watches the replay] I am not runnin’ one other race with him, I am accomplished.”
