Should NASCAR have called Ricky Stenhouse down pit road from the lead?

The rules certainly seem to call for an order from race control that was never made

The case could be made that the winner of the NASCAR Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway should have been called down pit road for repairs prior to the final restart.

Technically, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. was involved in the final crash with five laps to go, the largest by volume in the history of the division at 26 car, because it started when Austin Cindric was turned into his door.

Stenhouse kept driving straight as nearly everyone else drove into Cindric and those collected but it left a significant hole in the driver side door of the JTG Daugherty No. 47.

And that hole damaged or knocked out the mandated protective foam that NASCAR requires inside that part of the frame.

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