Brian France's exact words in a press conference today. "We decided that due to the totality of the events that were outside of Jeff Gordon's issues, we're going to add a 13th position to the field so that Jeff Gordon will qualify for the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship this year," France told reporters packed into Chicagoland Speedway's media center. "We believe that there were too many things that altered the event that gave an unfair disadvantage to Jeff and his team, who would have qualified. It's just the right thing to do.
"I have the authority to do that, and we are going to do that. It is an unprecedented and extraordinary thing, but it is also an unprecedented and extraordinary set of circumstances that unfolded in multiple different ways on Saturday night. We believe this is the right outcome to protect the integrity, which is the No. 1 goal of NASCAR."
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