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SPARTA, Ky. — Some mid-race contact in the NASCAR XFINITY Series VisitMyrtleBeach.com 300 led to some post-race fireworks at Kentucky Speedway for Brian Scott and Darrell Wallace Jr.
On pit road, moments after the race ended, Scott went over to Wallace’s parked car on pit road to have an exchange of words that appeared to get physical with the Richard Childress Racing driver pushing and shoving a still-seated Wallace before being separated by a NASCAR official.
After being separated, Scott went back for some more heated words with Wallace before walking away and back to his car.
“We got a restart and the 6, he drove down into me.” Scott said on pit road. “I never felt like he even gave me a chance to get in the corner. He loosened my right rear wheel and it ruined our day. Really unfortunate. Such a fast car.
“We’re racing for wins, so we don’t have to worry about points and stuff and that puts us in position to race those guys aggressively if that’s how they’re going to race.”
Scott’s anger stemmed from an incident on a Lap 128 restart where the two made contact and dropped him from out of the top 10 and eventually forced him to pit under a green flag, going a lap down on Lap 143. Scott led 45 laps and ended up with a 13th-place finish but remains in search of his first XFINITY Series win. RCR, as a whole, had a solid day with three cars in the top six.
“I think we showed as a company we’re really dominant,” Scott said. “I felt good about our Shore Lodge Chevrolet. Extremely good out front. We struggled with it in dirty air.
“We just kind of kept having restarts and red flags, and the race wasn’t really going smoothly, and that didn’t really play into our favor.”
Wallace didn’t really address the incident much, prefering to focus on his Roush Fenway Racing No. 6 Ford’s run that resulted in a ninth-place finish for his 11th top-10 finish of the season.
“I don’t even know if we got together on pit road,” Wallace told NBCSN. “We come home ninth, another top 10, so that’s good. Just not what we were expecting all day. Our Bleacher Report Mustang wasn’t what we had in practice. It was a kind of, a totally different animal. That’s what produces here at Kentucky. Great racing all around.
“Just a bummer we didn’t run better. We were expecting better than what we did. I tried to do some pit strategy but it hurt us in the long run, but we’ll go to Dover, where really good and have some fun.”
Asked for side of the incident, Wallace simply said, “that was — that was early in the race.”
After the race, Wallace and Scott both shared their sides on Twitter.
Some say the interview was bad..apologies! Hard to gather the brains when ya get blindsided by him, his wife..and bus driver.. Anybody else?
— Darrell Wallace Jr (@BubbaWallace) September 27, 2015
Well @BubbaWallace when your so classless that you call my wife the C word you should be ready for something to happen…
— Brian Scott (@bscottracing) September 27, 2015
Both drivers will be back in action at Dover International Speedway for the Hisense 200 (Oct. 3, NBCSN, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).