NASCAR’s third annual avenue course race in Chicago was a heated occasion, with Shane Van Gisbergen taking house the checkered flag after beginning on the pole. The race was marked by a number of intense moments, together with an enormous wreck within the opening laps when Carson Hocevar spun out and picked up a number of different vehicles. Austin Dillon was amongst these affected, and his in-car response was telling: “Carson Hocevar is the largest dumbass in all the sport. Yep. Everyone is aware of it buddy. Worn out into 10 and simply worn out half the sector.”
The tensions did not ease up because the race progressed. Alex Bowman and Bubba Wallace had been engaged in a fierce battle for a top-10 end, which ended with Wallace getting turned. Bowman’s radio dialog revealed his frustration with Wallace’s racing model: “We’re not enjoying good with this motherfucker. Stick with it.”
In the meantime, one other rivalry was brewing between Joey Logano and Ross Chastain. The incident began with a restart, the place Austin Cindric made contact with a number of vehicles, together with Logano and Chastain. Chastain, seemingly sad with Logano, dive-bombed the #22 automobile within the subsequent nook, sending Logano and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. spinning. Logano was livid on the radio, saying “Ross higher get the f—ing data proper earlier than he goes and wrecks any person. And there’s f—ing six vehicles behind me wrecking into me, after which he destroys me from 4 again. That motherf—er.”
After the race, Logano confronted Chastain on pit street and had some harsh phrases for him in a post-race interview: “He admitted he wrecked me on objective. He admitted it. Which suggests he ought to get fined if he admittedly wrecked any person on objective. That’s not okay. Typical Ross. He simply sees pink and does dumb stuff. That’s all.”
With NASCAR heading to a different street course in Sonoma subsequent week, it is seemingly that a few of the tensions from this week’s race will carry over. The battle between Logano and Chastain is one to observe, as each drivers have a historical past of letting their tempers get one of the best of them. In the event that they discover themselves shut to one another on the monitor, it might result in an fascinating and intense confrontation.
