NASCAR Fines, but Doesn’t Suspend Jeff Gordon for Phoenix Crash

Jeff Gordon will be racing in the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season finale in Florida next Sunday after all.NASCAR fined the veteran driver $100,000 and also docked him 25 points in the standings following Sunday's retaliatory crash into Cliff Bowyer at the AdvoCare 500 in Phoenix. The crash also prompted a fight between the two crews in the garage area.Gordon was angry that Bowyer had hit the side of his car a few laps earlier and later said he had finally had enough after getting run over by Bowyer several times already this season."Clint has run into me numerous times, wrecked me, and he got into me on the back straightaway and pretty much ruined our day," Gordon was quoted by the Chicago Tribune. "I've had it—fed up with it&md...

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