NASCAR promises rule reevaluation after Josh Berry's controversial elimination at Kansas

NASCAR official Brad Moran promised that the sanctioning body would reevaluate the Damaged Vehicle Policy (DVP) during the off-season. The controversial rule has come under the scanner after Josh Berry's outing at Kansas ended on Lap 1.

The DVP rule indicates that if a car is unable to drive back to the pit road after getting involved in a collision, it automatically results in a DNF. However, if a driver spins out due to a flat tire and is unable to drive back to the pits, the car will be towed under the flat tire recovery program.

In a recent appearance on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio, Brad Moran explained that the DVP rule was properly applied in Josh Berry's case. He also mentioned that the incident recorder in the #4 Ford was also triggered, and since Berry was unable to drive the car back to the pit road, it resulted in a DNF.

The NASCAR official admitted Berry's car wasn't damaged and could have continued, but doing so would have been against the rules. Moran clarified that the rule wouldn't be modified even if a Championship 4 contender were unable to drive back to pit road after a collision in the season finale.

"It'd be a real bad situation because we wouldn't change the rule. When the incident recorder goes off, that's a pretty big hit. The driver needs to go to the care center. All these other all these other items have to happen for safety. And, yeah, we certainly wouldn't want that to happen. But the rule hasn't changed. It's been that way," he said.

Moran added that the DVP rule will be reviewed over the winter and could be potentially altered for the upcoming season.

"It's just on that particular incident (Josh Berry's incident), it didn't feel right or look right, but it was done correctly, and it's again, something we're going to review over the winter. And it may change," he added.

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Rodney Childers calls out NASCAR's most "screwed up" ruling

Josh Berry's crew chief, Rodney Childers, expressed his frustration with how the DVP rule was applied last weekend at Kansas Speedway. Childers insisted that the #4 Stewart Haas Racing Ford just needed a new set of tires and pointed to past instances where cars with flat tires were towed to the pit road.

"I’ve seen a lot of things over my 25 years in the Cup Series, but that’s the most screwed up thing I’ve ever seen or been involved with. All we needed was tires with air in them. And how many times have we drug cars to the pit stall to put tires on them. Why today?!? 😡"Childers wrote on X.

Reigning NASCAR champion Ryan Blaney also expressed frustration with the DVP rule after it forced him to retire following a Lap 1 incident at Watkins Glen. However, the 30-year-old later acknowledged that the rule had been correctly applied in his case.