NASCAR’s France Happy With Tighter Racing

Aside from driver Denny Hamlin suffering an injury, Sunday's Sprint Cup race at Auto Club Speedway is just what NASCAR Chair & CEO Brian France “wants the sport to look like," according to David Newton of ESPN.com. France yesterday said, "What I know is when the racing is tighter and there's more passing, there's just more excitement and more contact and more things that happen. That's kind of what NASCAR is all about."

Hamlin’s wreck with Joey Logano during the Auto Club 400 marked the “second time in two weeks the drivers were involved in an on-track incident." But France said that he has “no plans to talk to them about settling their feud." France: “What they did in the last 20 laps is exactly what we would have expected them to do. This is a contact sport. It's always been a contact sport, especially late in the race."