ROSSBURG, Ohio?Kyle Busch's reaction to the penalties levied on Richard Childress was measured and terse.
"NASCAR decided to make the decisions that they felt were necessary, and that's pretty much the end of it," Busch told Sporting News on Wednesday at Eldora Speedway before the Prelude to the Dream charity race at the half-mile dirt track.
NASCAR fined Childress $150,000 and placed him on probation through the end of the year for an altercation with Busch after Saturday's Camping World Truck Series race at Kansas Speedway. Childress put Busch in a headlock and punched him multiple times.
On the cool-down lap after the race, Busch gave a slight bump to the Childress-owned truck of Joey Coulter, who had passed Busch for fifth place on the final lap. In the wake of an early May run-in between Busch and RCR driver Kevin Harvick at Darlington?which damaged Harvick's car and landed both Busch and Harvick on probation through June 15?Childress had promised to damage Busch if Busch damaged another Childress racecar.
After Saturday's race, Childress kept his promise, and Busch did not retaliate.
Asked again if he was satisfied with the sanctions against Childress, Busch said simply, "It's not my fight."
Austin Dillon, Childress' grandson, took issue with those who believed the $150,000 fine was insufficient punishment.
"It's a hefty fine," said Dillon, who was racing in the Prelude for the first time. "I feel like it was a little much. But they're going make an example out of something like that, because nothing like that's happened in a long time. ?
"My grandfather is a man of his word. He always has been, and he always will be. He's probably not happy about it?no one is?but it's part of the sport, so we'll just have to go on from it. Anybody that thinks that's a slap on the wrist ought to try and pay it sometime. If they think that, they're out of their mind."
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