Paul Tracy has been suspended from the Superstar Racing Experience sequence after his involvement in a controversial wreck Thursday evening at Pulaski County Motorsports Park in Radford, Virginia that eradicated himself, Josef Newgarden and Ken Schrader. Kyle Busch won the race in his first series start.

“We take issues regarding driver safety extremely seriously at SRX,” said the series Chief Executive Officer Don Hawk in an Instagram post. ” This will not be a call we take calmly. It is our duty to make sure that we foster a aggressive, and most significantly, a protected racing setting. I’ve been involved with Paul instantly and we recognize his cooperation on this matter.”

Tracy has been a part of each SRX race held in sequence’ historical past incomes 5 top-fives in 15 earlier begins. His greatest end is a 3rd at Stafford Motor Speedway in Stafford Springs, Connecticut in final 12 months’s season opener.

The incident in query from Pulaski was between Tracy and Newgarden when Tracy drove his automotive into the competitor’s door and turned sideways in entrance of the sphere. Schrader was caught up within the accident and didn’t pull any punches when describing his emotions.

“Green (Tracy’s car) had Black (Newgarden) shoved into the outside wall,” Schrader mentioned as he walked away from his mangled machine. “I’m not running another race with him. I’m done.”

Compounding Schrader’s frustration had been incidents within the two earlier races this season. He was spun by Tracy in Heat 2 of the season opener. The two made contact once more in Race 2, however this time it was Schrader who despatched Tracy spinning.

Tracy noticed the Pulaski incident otherwise.

“Newgarden and I were bumping off each other for a couple of laps and as I got a nose ahead of him, half a car ahead of him, I just got hooked and turned sideways down the straightaway,” Tracy mentioned. “It was just hard racing at the end there. Ten laps to go and everyone’s going for it hard.”

After Thursday evening’s race, sequence proprietor indicated this resolution was imminent. When requested about what it is going to take to dial down the aggression of drivers who’re tearing up vehicles, Stewart said at about the 1:21 mark in a Frontstretch interview on YouTube: “Quit having the guys who are tearing cars up come back. I haven’t seen any of the stuff. Luckily it was all behind me, but it sounds like it was the same cast of characters.”