Harrison Burton clinched a spot in the Cup Series playoffs by winning Saturday\u2019s Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona, thanks to a bit of help from Parker Retzlaff. <\/p>\n
It was Retzlaff who gave Burton the push to send him past Kyle Busch on the final lap, a move which may result in some repercussions for the 21-year-old driver. Retzlaff, making just his second career Cup Series start, piloted the No. 62 Chevrolet for Beard Motorsports, which happens to be associated with Richard Childress Racing. RCR even supplies Beard with engines, allowing them to compete at superspeedways.<\/p>\n
CLICK HERE to go to PrizePicks and use code ON3 to receive a guaranteed $50 once you play $5 in lineups!<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n And so, you could imagine the issue as Retzlaff aided Burton to a win, rather than helping Busch get to the start-finish line first to send him to the playoffs. Jeff Gluck and Jordan Bianchi of The Athletic<\/em> revealed on \u201cThe Teardown<\/a>\u201d podcast Sunday that Retzlaff\u2019s team told him over the radio to not help push Burton to victory. Unfortunately for them, it played out quite differently. <\/p>\n \u201cParker Retzlaff \u2014 there was conversation on his radio channel basically saying, \u2018Whatever you do, don\u2019t push the 21 [Burton] to a win,\u2019 because Parker Retzlaff is driving a Chevy, and they don\u2019t want to push a Ford in. I think they would like to see a Chevy in, not knock a Chevy out,\u201d Gluck said. \u201cUltimately, I think Parker Retzlaff has to do whatever he thinks is best for himself. I mean, he finished seventh and almost won the race.\u201d <\/p>\n Bianchi added he feels bad for Retzlaff, who was ultimately doing what gave him the best shot to win. <\/p>\n \u201cI feel bad for him because there\u2019s probably going to be some bad blood and don\u2019t forget too, that team is kind of a quasi-affiliate team of RCR,\u201d Bianchi said. \u201c\u2026 You can see why they\u2019re putting in this kid\u2019s head of, \u2018Hey, do this.\u2019 But so much easier to say than do in these closing moments.\u201d <\/p>\n Retzlaff, who finished P7, said<\/a> while he didn\u2019t necessarily want to push a Ford to victory, it was the move he needed to make for himself. <\/p>\n \u201cEveryone works too hard to not have a shot at it,\u201d Retzlaff told\u00a0Bob Pockrass of FOX Sports<\/em><\/a>. \u201cI definitely didn\u2019t want to push a Ford to the win in a Chevy. But I knew I needed to get Harrison clear to make it a race between me and him to race to the line there. I had a little bit of nose damage, and my line broke apart down the backstretch. I pushed him clear, and my line broke apart and I had no chance to get clear.\u201d<\/p>\n The post NASCAR insider addresses Parker Retzlaff not helping Kyle Busch, RCR late at Daytona<\/a> appeared first on On3<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Harrison Burton clinched a spot in the Cup Series playoffs by winning Saturday\u2019s Coke Zero…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67674,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67633\/revisions\/67674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Parker Retzlaff under fire for helping Harrison Burton to win over Kyle Busch<\/h2>\n