Landon Huffman shared his dissatisfaction and questioned the CARS Tour rules after he was penalized and sent to the rear of the field for being involved in a spin with his teammate Connor Jones.

On lap 76 of the 125 lap feature, Connor Jones was attempting to get back to the bottom and preferred line on the track after getting passed by Ayden Millette. However, Landon Huffman had already got his nose underneath him. So when Jones came down he made contact with Huffman and went spinning up the track with his rear end making contact with the wall.

CARS Tour officials would send Huffman to the rear. It is unclear exactly what rule he violated, but there are a couple of possibilities. First, it’s possible that it was determined he was part of the incident. The CARS Tour rulebook states that “All cars involved in [an] incident will be placed into the lineup at the tail of his/her respective lap.”

Another option is that he was found guilty of “reckless driving (contact with another competitor resulting in a yellow)” or “rough driving (contact that results in one or more competitors hitting the wall/each other).” Both of these actions are penalizable, but the penalty appears to be at Race Control’s discretion.

Huffman commented on it following the race in a video recently uploaded to his YouTube channel. He said, “We drove all the way back. We’re 16th, 15th, 17th, something like that. And my teammate chopped across my nose. So, because of that race director decided — even though he said that I got chopped and it wasn’t my fault — because the video wasn’t very clear, they decided to put me in the rear, which makes no sense at all because the rule is deeming fault. … So they sent me to the rear for that.”

From there he discussed a number of the other incidents he was involved in, “I think passing for 12th and I was beside the 4 and the 2 car jacked me up on entry and I ran over the four. Spun out again ’cause the two ran me over. No video of that so they leave the 2 up there.”

“Go all the way to the back, drive all the way back to 16th,” he continued. “Moving forward, the 16 car plowed over us. So we spun out then and then we came all the way back to 12th. So passed a lot of cars. Got ran all over. Just unfortunate. Proud of our effort this weekend.”

He went into more details about getting sent to the rear on his Huffman Racing show, “What the hell is the caution rule in the CARS Tour? … This is what’s so aggravating. And we need to have a long conversation about this. Anybody watching that, in my opinion, would say that is not my fault. It is not something you can predict. He just turned left. He admitted he turned left. That he didn’t acknowledge the fact I was there. The announcers said, ‘Oh my [gosh], I cannot believe he just turned left on him!’ They sent me to the rear for that. They put me in the rear. That’s why I had to go back. So, I was all the way back up to 13th after going back to 28th. … I was going to stay there until they put me in the rear.”

“Danny Willard, who is the Race Director now, which I’m assuming he makes all the calls at this point because of what happened at Wake. … Nobody was making any calls at Wake. He made the call. And I asked him after, ‘What’s the rule?’ He’s like, ‘Well…’ I said, ‘Is it a judgment?’ And he’s like, ‘Well, you were involved in the caution.’ I said, “So is it involved in the caution rule?’ And he’s like, ‘Well, it looks like the 44 chopped you, but from our angle it’s hard to tell.’ And I said, “Is it a judgment or is it an involved rule?’ Well, the rule supposedly, now, is a judgment call. So, he said he made that because he couldn’t tell what happened based off the-.”

“Then, later in the race, after I was sent to the back, I was driving all the way back up through the field again and I got to 13th and I was passing [Parker] Eatmon for 12th and I was mowing them down. We were actually really good later in the race, which I felt like my car was going to be. Passing Eatmon, we’re racing hard, we get down in the corner and I feel like what happened is Brandon Pierce got into my left rear. Everybody else says that in the infield that was watching it. As soon as I got into the middle of the corner I felt like I got hit in the left rear and it bounced me sideways. You can see it on my GoPro, but I don’t have any video of it. And then when it bounced me sideways, my right rear tire hit Eatmon. So I got knocked, hit Eatmon, and then it both jerked us. He saved it. It jerked me all the way around and the 2 was into my bumper at that point. Brandon says he didn’t touch me until after I was spinning. There’s other people that say otherwise. I went to talk to Brandon. We just disagreed. We weren’t arguing over it ’cause at that point it didn’t really matter. I crashed three more times and I didn’t really give a [crap].”

“They did not send the 2 to the back,” he added. “You want to know why? ‘We just didn’t get a good look.’ … So what’s frustrating to me is I don’t think anybody knows the rule. I think that some of them that it’s an involved, which if that’s the rule, okay. I was involved in the caution, I can be mad ay my teammate for chopping me the first one. I got to go to the back. But is that everyone that’s involved or is that just the cause? Technically, I wasn’t the cause of the caution, but I was a part of the cause. But I wasn’t at fault. So how do we delegate this so that-?”

Huffman then said, “Someone has to have big enough kahunas to make decisions. If that was his decision against me and he said, ‘I think it’s your fault.’ If that’s the case, I think he’s blind, but whatever I got to live with it.”

“I don’t think they know the rule,” he added. “I don’t think anybody wants to know the rule.”

He then shared some messages he had with Willard about the rule, “He said he was not saying involved, he’s saying the cause. So, I was the cause of the caution because I made contact with him. I said, ‘Okay, if that that’s how it’s deemed, what happens if I’m a lap down and I’m running like [crap] and Landen Lewis or whoever is running the race, and they’re lapping me, and I’m pissed off, and I just hook a left, and he turns me. Well, by precedent his ass is going to the back. Part of the cause. So at that point, you’re not making a judgment call because it’s the cause of the caution.”

“So I feel that they have to reconfigure what’s going on here. I’m tired of getting [screwed] by the rule,” he added. 

Huffman shared he wants the rule changed when he was asked what it should be, “I think you have to make a judgment call, but the judgment call has to be-. You have to be confident in your mind. .. You have to have someone that’s willing to make the judgment call. And if it is a racing incident or you’re on the fence about it then you just have to say it’s a racing incident.”

Additionally, he reiterated that he does not believe CARS Tour officials know the rule, “I think they put me to the back, not because they thought it was my fault, but because I was involved. And now they’re spun out on the rule. I think that they’re backtracking because they don’t know what the rule is. “Cause anybody can look at that wreck and can see what happened in my opinion. Anybody’s that educated on racing understands what just happened.”

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