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It Must Be Awkward To Commentate An Intentional Wreck By A Driver You Called A Spoon-Fed Rich Kid
It Must Be Awkward To Commentate An Intentional Wreck By A Driver You Called A Spoon-Fed Rich Kid-February 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:11:24

After being spun out late in the NASCAR Xfinity Series race on Saturday, Austin Dillon . The scene felt odd, but it wasn’t the wreck. It was the steaming awkwardness of the broadcast, because the guy commentating called Dillon a spoon-fed rich kid when they were teammates.

The person commentating on the wreck was Kevin Harvick, a former Richard Childress Racing driver in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. Harvick and Austin Dillon’s brother, Ty Dillon, got into it during a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race in Martinsville back in 2013.

The Dillon brothers are the grandsons of team owner Richard Childress, and Harvick had things to say about them both in Martinsville. From :

“The (No.) 3 just dumped me,” Harvick said. “(That’s) exactly reason I’m leaving RCR, because you’ve got those kids coming up that have got no respect for what they do in this sport and they’ve had everything fed to them with a spoon...It’s just a shame you have to get taken out by some rich kid like that.”

Harvick, now a Stewart-Haas Racing driver, was acting as a guest commentator in the broadcast booth for the Phoenix International Raceway Xfinity race on Saturday when Austin Dillon intentionally wrecked Cole Custer under caution—something that people . It was unexpected, considering that Austin Dillon isn’t racing for points in the Xfinity Series and Custer is.

Harvick was a bit nicer to the Dillon family this time around, simply saying that a retaliation under caution is “stuff that you don’t really want to see” and that it was something you would see in a local race rather than the Xfinity Series.

Look, we at Jalopnik aren’t trying to stir stuff up (but let’s be honest, Fox Sports is after that ). But the thing is, in November, Austin Dillon was —and he wasn’t even the one in the original scuffle with Harvick! Plus, this stuff is just plain funny sometimes.

NASCAR feuds are the best, especially when they’re on track to last for another decade at least. !

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