Wally Brown, competition director for Joe Gibbs Racing, said Monday that “we don’t have team orders.
“It’s just not the way we race. If you listen to that whole transcript, there was a lot of talk about point implications across the board from multiple teams. Let’s face it, at that point in time, Denny was not going to let him around. They probably would have crashed if they would have tried to. If he would have tried to make a pass, he probably would have crashed both of them, no different than the last-lap effort (by Kevin Harvick in wrecking Kyle Busch).
“The stakes are high. You’re not going to give up those spots, you’re going to do everything you can. That’s the way I look at it.”