During Sunday's Price Chopper 400 at Kansas Speedway, it was reported that officials told Brad Keselowski to not race so aggressively with the Chase drivers early in the race.
NASCAR has issued plenty of "rough-driving" warnings, but to tell a top-five car not to race hard because he was surrounded by drivers in the playoffs, appears to be rare event.

It is S.O.P. at nascar races to ask ones who are not in the fray for the cup to get out of the way of the ones that are, they (nascar) do not want a sometime back marker taking out Gorden or Johnson. Note: They did not ask Jr. to back off.
Cup racing sucks.
Bill Fisher

How ridiculous. It's almost like fixing a race to tell some not to race hard. Why else do they race?