Chase Elliott flipped off Clint Bowyer during the NASCAR race at Dover International Speedway; Clint Bowyer wasn’t happy
Clint Bowyer: “Tell that little fucking punk if he wants to flip me off… I’ll see him after the race. I’ll stick that finger straight up his ass.”
Clint Bowyer leads all drivers in laps led on short tracks in 2018 with 380. He’s also tied with Kyle Busch for the most points accumulated on short tracks. Together, they are tied at 206.
Dover International Speedway isn’t a short track. However, it’s a bigger version of Bristol Motor Speedway. While it’s 1-mile in length, it has short track characteristics. Thus, the same short track players found themselves at the front of the field on Sunday.
Clint Bowyer started 5th and was set up for a great day on the concrete race track. He led only one lap but found himself battling at the front for the majority of the afternoon.
Again, Dover isn’t a short track. But, it brings out the tempers, just like one…
Radio communication during the race
Clint Bowyer: “I don’t know what the #9’s problem was.”
Chase Elliott: “I’m not sure why he thinks he can just run over us. He did it last week too.”
Eddie D’Hondt (#9 Spotter): “Yeah. You get a chance, send him.”
Clint Bowyer: “Tell that little fucking punk if he wants to flip me off… I’ll see him after the race. I’ll stick that finger straight up his ass.”
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Clint Bowyer was having a great day at Dover International Speedway. The team collected 16, much needed, stage points. However, with 18 laps to go he was sent to the pit lane under green with mechanical issues.
The crew thought it was a tire. They changed all the tires. Bowyer re-entered the race track and found the wall. That brought out the caution.
Clint Bowyer: “Let me guess, that fucked the #10?”
Brett Griffin (#14 Spotter); “I hope not.”
On the next restart, Aric Almirola found the wall. He bounced off the outside wall and came back across the track into Keselowski. Dover is a natural funnel. Keselowski slide across the back stretch and then collected Truex.
Aric Almirola: “Y’all should be going to victory lane today. I got tight and hit the fence.”
Chase Elliott drove it to victory lane. He picked up the second win of his career.
“I guess we had another loose wheel. It just sucks. I’m so sick for Aric. That was his race to win. Hell, he had one won at New Hampshire. We had trouble, broke something, go back out there,” Clint Bowyer stated after the race.
“I don’t know. Something in the left rear or right rear was loose. I thought it was the trackbar, it was so bad. I go back out there and it was fine.”
“I take back off. Then, something in the front breaks. I don’t know. It was two different instances, whatever we were having trouble with.”
“Newman, he was still pissed about last week, I guess. [He] had to be Newman and tore my right side up. I don’t know if it was damaged from that or not. From then on, it wasn’t very good. It a shame.”
History: Ryan Newman and Clint Bowyer
Roval: Last week, Clint Bowyer and Ryan Newman tangles on track on the Charlotte Roval. Newman made it clear over the radio that he had plans to get him back.
Though, I’m sure Bowyer and everyone else thought they had moved beyond that as they moved to Dover the following week. Apparently, that was the wrong assumption.
Darlington: However, the Roval was not the first time that Clint Bowyer and and Ryan Newman have tangled recently on the race track. At Darlington Raceway, Newman jumped on the brakes to come to pit road.
Clint Bowyer was trailing Newman, on new tires. He was not aware that Newman was about to head to the pit lane. He slammed into the back bumper of Newman, still in the throttle. Both cars collected the wall and were taken out of the race.
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