NASCAR Carl Edwards Put on Probation After Incident with Brad Keselowski

During today's 12:30pm EST press conference, NASCAR president Mike Helton announced that Carl Edwards has been put on probation for three races, no suspension, no fines, and no point penalty. Helton added that Edwards "knows what that means." In pulling Edwards off the track and speaking with him in the trailer, Helton said that NASCAR "wanted to make it clear that this goes beyond what we said in February, and we think the driver of the No. 99 understands that." In his opinion, he thinks their "reaction of putting Carl in the garage for the rest of the event and our probation is enough." He went on to add that in talking with both Roger Penske (Brad Keselowski's owner) and Jack Roush (Edwards' owner), they came to this decision and plan to...

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