NASCAR reveals Shane van Gisbergen and Austin Hill penalty decisions after Chicagoland altercations

NASCAR has made the decision not to hand out any official sanctions to Shane van Gisbergen or Austin Hill after their on-track altercations this weekend.

The Trackhouse Racing star got into Hill during the race's first stage, wrecking him into Turn 4 in apparent retaliation for incidents at Pocono and San Diego which Van Gisbergen blamed the No. 33 for.

Hill got going again and later doored Van Gisbergen under caution. Fortunately for both drivers, they've managed to skate free of punishment, although NASCAR vice president of racing communications Mike Forde did admit that the pair will be spoken to this weekend at Atlanta.

Ryan Preece may be staring at the decision in confusion after receiving a 25-point penalty for a similar incident earlier in the season, the main difference being the fact that the New Zealander didn't get on the radio and say 'I'm going to wreck Austin Hill', and instead insisted it was an accident. Reminder to drivers: engage brain before mouth.

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Speaking on the Hauler Talk podcast this week, Forde confirmed that the pair would be pulled in for a conversation this weekend, saying: “We want to have a discussion and make sure that it doesn’t boil over into a significant problem at Atlanta or beyond. So we plan to have that conversation on Saturday.”

On the incident itself, he added: “We looked to see if there were any anomalies throughout the race and something that spurred this that maybe was payback from earlier.

"We went through all the radio transmissions to see if there was anything that rose to kind of a smoking gun. Camera angles and all available resources, as we always say. And nothing in our eyes proved definitively this was 100 per cent intentional and penalty-worthy.”

He continued: “There’s enough reasonable doubt to where it didn’t rise to the penalty for us here. If you remove that reasonable doubt, then you’re going to get a penalty. If you say you’re going to do it and then do it, that is going to rise to the level of a penalty.”