Just a few short weeks soon after Brad Keselowski and Matt Kenseth had words at Charlotte, No. 2 identified himself in the middle of a larger, brawlier run-in with none other than Jeff Gordon final evening. Like any very good tussle, this one particular was long on feelings and brief on justification, but this time, seemingly everyone on pit road was involved.
The whole altercation stemmed from make contact with amongst Keselowski and Gordon in Turn 1 right after a restart. Keselowski’s dive for the inside place him in Gordon’s path, causing get in touch with that reduce No. 24’s left-rear tire. Keselowski drove away unscathed, although Gordon wobbled, dropped a number of positions, and ultimately spun out.
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Keselowski maintains that he saw a gap and shot for it, while Gordon viewed the move as an intentional shunt. On his web site, Gordon said, “We drove down into Turn 1 and he just decided to body slam us and cut our left-rear tire. It ruined our night . . . It’s just uncalled for.”
Gordon therefore took matters into his personal hands, parking alongside Keselowski in the pits and storming over to have some words with the younger driver. Then, egged on by Kevin Harvick seemingly shoving Keselowski into Gordon’s swatting range (watch the :57 mark in the video beneath), pit road erupts in a shoving match, with crew members from each teams obtaining in their personal punches and jabs.
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Tensions didn’t cool down a single bit in the post-race interviews: “You cannot have a conversation with him,” says Gordon—who apparently just wanted to speak things out when he parked alongside Keselowski’s auto and stormed previous his pit crew. “He’s just a dipshit,” Gordon says on-camera. Keselowski didn’t seem to want to de-escalate the circumstance, although, himself no stranger to driver altercations following becoming slapped with a $ 50,000 fine for colliding with Matt Kenseth and chasing down Denny Hamlin in the pits at Charlotte. It is not possible to see who started swinging very first this time, but the outcomes can be observed on each drivers’ faces in the post-race interviews.
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The on-track events place Gordon down 3 positions, landing him 12 points behind Joey Logano, although Keselowski stands in 6th, one point ahead of Harvick.
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