Overview

• The one-race suspension strips Hill of all 21 regular-season playoff points and drops him to a lower seed as he enters the postseason
• Richard Childress Racing confirmed it will not appeal and has tapped Cup driver Austin Dillon to pilot the No. 21 Chevrolet at Iowa Speedway
• NASCAR managing director Mike Forde said the ban follows past one-race suspensions for intentional wrecking on high-speed ovals involving Bubba Wallace, Kyle Larson and Chase Elliott
• Senior director Amanda Ellis noted that Hill was initially held for five laps on pit road after the incident to signal NASCAR’s intolerance for deliberate on-track retaliation
• Richard Childress’s defense of Hill and attempts to blame former RCR driver Sheldon Creed have drawn fan backlash and renewed questions about penalty consistency