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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — NASCAR President Mike Helton said March 9 that NASCAR has placed Carl Edwards on probation for the next three races after Edwards intentionally wrecked Brad Keselowski at Atlanta Motor Speedway March 7.

Unless Edwards does something additional to provoke another punishment from NASCAR, this will be the only penalty levied against him as a result of the crash.

Helton said that there were two issues to consider — the incident between Edwards and Keselowski and the fact that Keselowski’s race car became airborne as a result of the contact.

“We’ve not seen a car get airborne much on the mile-and-a-half race track, and that’s something that is very important to us and we want to study very closely to figure out things that we can do to help prevent this very quickly in the future,” Helton said during a teleconference March 9. “Obviously the 12 car getting airborne to us is a much more serious topic right now.