NASCAR Cup Series drivers have a vested interest in how NASCAR reacts to the finish of Saturday's Xfinity Series race at Martinsville Speedway. They want to see how NASCAR handles Sammy Smith knocking Taylor Gray out of the way for the lead in the final turn,

“Our cars are tanks now,” Bell said. “The Xfinity (Series) cars are a lot more fragile than what we have today. It just comes down to respect, and whenever you have respect in a race car and respect for your competitors, the outcome is a lot different. We want to be known as racers; We don’t want to be known as wreckers.”