NASCAR Chairman Brian France would not talk about why Mauricia Grant was fired and asked people not to jump to conclusions over the allegations listed in her $225 million sexual and racial discrimination lawsuit against NASCAR.

France confirmed that two Nationwide Series officials had been put on administrative leave as a result of the ongoing internal investigation sparked by the lawsuit. Those officials are Tim Knox and Bud Moore, according to multiple sources. Both Knox and Moore are among the officials named in the lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in New York City.

Grant's allegations include being nicknamed "Nappy Headed Mo" by one official, being asked by Busch Series director Joe Balash if her exercise program "include an urban obstacle course with a flat-screen TV on your back," being singled out as being on "Colored People Time" and having other officials use the N-wordin reference to her.

The 32-year-old Grant, who worked for the Nationwide Series for about three years before being fired in October 2007, alleges that co-workers asked her to expose her breasts to them and also had co-workers expose their genitals in two separate instances.

"We will deal with the conclusions of the facts when we get them," France said in talking to reporters at Michigan International Speedway, site of the Sprint Cup Series race Sunday. "Knowing what I know now, and not to compromise the investigation at all and I'm not going to do that, I can tell you not to jump to conclusions about what a lawsuit attempts to say in an attempt to create some monetary reward for themselves."

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