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NASCAR's Austin Dillon goes to Michigan with no regrets for wrecking Joey Logano and Denny Hamilin
BROOKLYN, Mich. — BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) — Austin Dillon has no regrets over his aggressive actions that triggered last-lap wrecks for Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin before Dillon went on to win at Richmond Raceway and had NASCAR later revoke his automatic spot in the playoffs.
“You don’t hate the player,” Dillon said Saturday, a day before the Firekeepers 400 was scheduled to run at Michigan International Speedway. “You hate the game.”
The game — or the system as many Cup Series drivers call it — creates high-stakes, risk-reward racing for competitors needing to win to secure a spot in the 16-car playoffs.
Dillon was, and still is, one of those desperate drivers, and NASCAR determined he “crossed a line” and went too far.
The checkered flag seemed out of reach last weekend for Dillon, who started Richmond No. 32 in the standings, until the final seconds when he spun Logano out of the way and sent Hamlin into the wall.
Three days later, NASCAR announced Dillon committed “ actions detrimental to stock car auto racing ” in its decision to take him out of a spot in the 16-driver field.
Dillon and the Richard Childress Racing No. 3 team were docked points in both the drivers’ and owners’ standings, dropping him from 26th to 31st in the driver standings.
Brandon Benesch, Dillon’s spotter, was suspended for three races for yelling “wreck him!” over the radio as the driver raced with Hamlin down the stretch.
RCR is appealing NASCAR’s decision.
NASCAR, meanwhile, was wired $50,000 from Logano to settle a fine for smoking his tires on pit road as he drove by Dillon and his team.
Logano suggested what Dillon did to him at Richmond was akin to someone breaking in his house, stealing his stuff and dancing with the ill-gotten possessions on the front lawn.
“What would you do?” Logano said. “I was not going to do anything to hurt anybody, but I’m not a robot. I was emotional about it, rightfully so.”
Hamlin wished the ruling was made in real time Sunday night, but added that he was satisfied with NASCAR’s decision.
“I saw something that I’ve never seen before last week, and we saw an unprecedented penalty for it,” Hamlin said.
Hamlin will start on the pole Sunday after rain washed out qualifying.
There are 12 drivers with a spot secured in the playoffs, leaving four spots open with three races remaining.
NASCAR’s decision to revoke Dillon’s spot in the postseason gave a dose of hope for drivers such as Bubba Wallace, who currently holds a position in the playoff picture that would give him a spot based on points even if he doesn’t win.
“There are still four spots left instead of the three,” Wallace said. “Definitely a relief there, but it is still going to be a dogfight.
“We are still not safe but there is an extra spot open now.”
Erik Jones, who drives the No. 43 Toyota, signed a multiyear contract extension this week with Legacy Motor Club to make his homecoming even sweeter.
“Looking at the landscape and where everything was at, what was possibly available and what other opportunities were out there, none of them were enticing enough for me that made me want to make a move,” said Jones, who is from Byron, Michigan, a town with about 500 residents. “Unless it was going to be a huge leap to a currently a race-winning, championship-contending team, I just wasn’t interested.”
Defending race champion Chris Buescher, who is at No. 16 in the playoff picture, extended Ford’s winning streak to nine at Michigan last year.
The manufacturer has the longest streak of success, dating to Clint Bowyer’s victory in 2018, at a track that has hosted 106 Cup races since 1969.
Top-ranked driver Kyle Larson is the BetMGM Sportsbook favorite to win Sunday, or Monday if rain pushes the race past the weekend for a second straight year.
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Michigan Lottery Daily 3, Daily 4 results for June 3, 2026
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The Michigan Lottery offers several draw games for those aiming to win big.
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08-09-20-26-34-45
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01-11-23-33-36-44
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All Michigan Lottery retailers can redeem prizes up to $600. For prizes up to $99,999.99, winners have the option to submit their claim by mail or in person at one of Michigan Lottery’s Regional Offices.
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Gotion wants Michigan township to pay the $23.7M it owes in incentives
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Gotion Inc. has asked a federal judge to order the Michigan township where it was supposed to call home to repay the roughly $23.7 million it owes the state in taxpayer-funded incentives.
Green Township’s actions opposing Gotion’s planned battery parts plant made it all but impossible to move forward, the company argued, leaving Gotion in default under its agreement with the state and on the hook for the $23.7 million in taxpayer-funded incentives it received for land purchases and improvements.
“Now that it is clear the project cannot move forward in the face of this continued opposition and the state of Michigan’s withdrawal of support, Gotion seeks to add these constitutional claims and request damages as a result of the township’s breach of the development agreement and violation of Gotion’s constitutional rights,” a May 29 court filing in the case said.
Last week’s filing seeks to amend an earlier lawsuit Gotion filed against Green Township over zoning changes that made its development all but impossible to proceed.
In February, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked Gotion’s lawsuit, arguing that it was moot because the state had already found the project in default and had demanded back roughly $23.7 million that had been given to the subsidiary of a Chinese company to purchase and prepare land in Green Township. In light of that ruling, Gotion is seeking to amend its lawsuit to seek additional damages.
“…the Sixth Circuit implied that given the facts of the dispute at this point, the correct form of damages for Gotion’s breach of contract claim against the township is likely monetary damages and no longer injunctive relief,” Gotion said in the May 29 filing.
The amended filing includes demands for damages arising from the “millions” Gotion paid or spent in reliance on the project moving forward, lost profits the company would have made if the manufacturing facility were built, attorney fees and an amount “not less than $23,670,873.56 for funds advanced towards land and development costs related to the project that the state of Michigan is now claiming should be repaid.”
Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office, which is seeking to recoup the $23.7 million on behalf of the Michigan Strategic Fund, said it was aware of Gotion’s May 29 filing against Green Township and is “monitoring the situation.” The office declined further comment, citing attorney-client privilege.
Gotion first sued Green Township in March 2024 after the board — all of whom had been replaced in November 2023 with members concerned about the Gotion project — rescinded two resolutions needed for the project to move forward. Gotion sued in federal court for breach of contract, and a U.S. district court judge issued a preliminary ruling in Gotion’s favor.
But the Sixth Circuit later blocked the case after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration, last fall, found Gotion to be in default of its grant agreement.
The state’s finding of default was in part due to the Green Township lawsuit. The company’s agreement with the state prohibits involvement in a suit that “would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the project or the grantee’s performance of its obligations under this agreement.”
The state also maintained Gotion’s “cessation of eligible activities” for a period of 120 days constituted an “abandonment” in violation of the grant agreement.
The Michigan Strategic Fund said it would seek to recoup the $23.7 million used to purchase and prepare land for Gotion in Green Township.
The Gotion project in Green Township was fraught with controversy shortly after its announcement. The company had planned to locate a battery parts plant in the Big Rapids area, creating up to 2,350 jobs and receiving about $175 million in taxpayer-funded incentives for the project.
Local opponents pushed back on the project because of the secretive nature with which it was negotiated, the unknown environmental effects of the project and Gotion’s parent company in China. Those concerns were amplified by Republican candidates in 2024, including both Vice President JD Vance and President Donald Trump.
The legal maneuverings with Gotion have already come at a cost to the township.
For the past three years, the state Treasury Department has flagged Green Township in Mecosta County because its expenditures have exceeded the amount of money authorized in its annual budget. In a corrective action plan submitted to Treasury last month, the township said its deficits were “primarily due to the legal fees.”
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Residents in Taylor, Michigan, fight against possible rezoning
A group of residents on Holland Road in Taylor, Michigan, say they are now doing everything they can to keep their neighborhood the way it is after some of them received a letter saying the city is considering rezoning their neighborhood.
“People across the street from me could have warehouse front property instead of woods and nice residential homes,” said Matthew Streicher.
Streicher, whose family has owned property on Holland Road for more than 100 years, says that has been his concern after he received a letter from the city about a proposed rezoning from residential to light industrial directly behind his home near Wick and Holland roads.
“So that’s when I also decided to start knocking on doors around here and saying this is what is going on, we need to speak out and have a voice as to what happens in our backyards, literally,” said Streicher.
Streicher told CBS News Detroit that three of his neighbors received that letter, informing residents that there’s a possibility of a new cold storage warehouse development if this land is rezoned.
“Nothing that belongs in a neighborhood,” said Tim Adkins.
“Heartbreaking, heartbreaking, you know,” said Denise Haggadone.
Many who live on Holland Road say this possibility is even more disturbing because of how long everyone has lived on this quaint road. And these same homeowners say that an industrial facility would only bring in more traffic and take away natural green space, most likely hurting their property value as well.
“It’s nice to see the wildlife, you know, there’s so few places left,” said Adkins.
On Tuesday, CBS News Detroit spoke off-camera with City Council Chairman Charley Johnson, who also lives on Holland Road. Johnson says he understands all of his neighbors’ concerns and agrees with them.
He says the company proposing this rezoning has every right to do so, and that the planning commission will vote on it Wednesday evening.
“It’s sad, I raised my kid here, and he’s planning on having this home after I pass or retire or what have you,” Haggadone said,
The residents hope to see a big turnout at Wednesday’s planning commission meeting at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, June 3, at Taylor City Hall.
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