Austin Dillon can keep the win, but not everything that comes with it.

NASCAR announced Wednesday that Dillon’s Cup Series win last weekend at Richmond — which he obtained by wrecking both Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin on the final lap — will not count toward his eligibility for the playoffs.

Dillon was also docked 25 points in both the drivers’ and owners’ standings, dropping him from 26th to 31st. He was not stripped of the victory, however.

Elton Sawyer, NASCAR senior vice president of competition, said the penalties stemmed from the totality of the events on the final lap of the Cook Out 400.

Logano passed Dillon on an overtime restart and held the lead heading toward the final turn. Dillon bumped Logano from behind, spinning him. Hamlin got past Dillon during that wreck, and Dillon clipped and spun Hamlin to pass him and take his first victory of the season.

“I think in all due respect to the appeal process, we looked at this and the totality of everything that happened as you enter Turn 3 and as the cars got to the start/finish line,” Sawyer said. “So, as we look through all of that data, we came to the conclusion that a line had been crossed. Our sport has been based going for many, many years, forever, on good, hard racing. Contact has been acceptable. We felt like, in this case, that the line was crossed.”

NASCAR also suspended Brandon Benesch, the No. 3 team’s spotter, for three Cup Series races. A review of transmissions from the No. 3 team radio revealed Benesch saying “wreck him” as Dillon battled alongside Hamlin going into the final turn.

“We just felt like that that’s not what we need spotters doing,” Sawyer said. “That’s not what we need (from a) crew chief sitting on the box. They’re a calming voice to what the situation is in front of them, and they’re supposed to be spotting for the race, not making comments like were made, as we all know.”

Logano was fined $50,000 for his actions after the race, when he spun the tires of his No. 22 Team Penske Ford in anger near the RCR No. 3 team’s pit box.

That show of disgust — a violation of the member code of conduct for compromising the safety of others — sent celebrants from Dillon’s team scattering on pit road and drew a stern rebuke from NASCAR officials at the scene.

Logano also used an expletive in a postrace interview to describe Dillon’s winning move, and was the first of many drivers who called it unacceptable on-track behavior.

Representatives from Team Penske said Wednesday that Logano accepts his penalty and will not plan to appeal.

In a statement posted to social media Wednesday, Richard Childress Racing announced it plans to appeal the penalties levied to Dillon and the No. 3 team.

Dillon entered Sunday’s race in 32nd place in the Cup Series standings, but his performance had vaulted him into the 13th on the provisional playoff grid.

Wednesday’s ruling reduces the number of playoff qualifiers to 12, with four open spots to be determined in the three remaining regular-season events. Dillon is still eligible for the playoffs overall, should he win one of those remaining three races.