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The media scene following the Cook Out 400 and a controversial finish that saw Austin Dillon take the win was an interesting one, as tensions flared between owner Richard Childress and reporters. After audio captured from the team’s radio in the final moments of the race showed Dillon’s crew urging him to wreck the drivers in front of him, Childress pushed back. First, he claimed that nobody on the Austin Dillon team radio had said that. “I don’t think anyone said that,” Childress said. “Everybody was quiet, we left it up to him to do his job. And hell no, nobody said go out and wreck him or d…

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