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NASCAR Executive Vice President and Chief Racing Development Officer Steve O'Donnell told SiriusXM NASCAR Radio's "The Morning Drive" that he and other NASCAR officials "did not see oil" on the track during Sunday's Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway
"I can't debate Kyle (Busch) and (Dale Earnhardt) Junior," O'Donnell said, referencing the drivers' stating there was oil on the track. "They're in the race car, they say they hit it. It's not something we saw out there. We'll continue to talk to them and see what we can maybe improve on in the future.
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"We had personnel even out of the truck almost on their hands and knees out there to make sure there wasn't any (oil)," O'Donnell said.
Both Busch and Earnhardt Jr. were adamant after the race that oil that wasn't cleaned up from a previous incident led to each of them hitting the wall in separate incidents.
"We all hit the wall," Earnhardt Jr. said after the Hendrick Motorsports driver finished 28th in the opening race of the Contender Round of this year's Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. "I hit the wall, the 2 (of Brad Keselowski) hit the wall, then we went another lap. I pitted, a bunch of other guys hit the wall.
"There was oil down there. It wasn't speedy dry (used to absorb fluids put down on the racing surface). I've raced this (expletive) for 20 years, I know what oil and speedy dry is. We hit fluid, flew into the freaking wall hard. That's not speedy dry. There was oil up there."
O'Donnell also thanked fans for sticking it out until Sunday as, "we did not see a window at all," to get the race in during the rainy Saturday night for which the event was originally scheduled for.
And as far as that long-awaited 2016 schedule, O'Donnell mentioned it's coming "very, very soon."