Kyle Larson and Ross Chastain have become a major story in recent weeks, with the Trackhouse Racing driver starting accidents that ruined the No. 5 team’s day three times in the last four races. On Sunday at Darlington Raceway, it happened again.
Interestingly enough, the day before and after the 2021 Cup Series champion won the Xfinity Series race, his Victory Lane celebration was only attended by a few. According to one report, the reason for the small attendance is its Kaulig Racing pit crew, who also serve as Chastain’s pit crew in the Cup Series, and have chosen not to join in the celebration in protest of what the Hendrick Motorsports driver did a few weeks earlier. .
Kyle Larson and Ross Chastain are involved in multiple accidents in 2023
After Talladega, everyone was talking about the violent incident between Kyle Larson and Ryan Preece. The focus was understandably on the damage to HMS and the chilling footage inside the car from the Stewart-Haas Racing car. It all resulted from a crash that Chastain started with a move to the front of the pack late on the restart.
Fast forward a week later to Dover. In the first stage, Melon Farmer got into the back of Brennan Paul, who went up the wall and collected the No. 5 car. Two accidents.
After pulling away from No. 1 Kansas, Larson and Chastain reconnected on Sunday at Darlington, late on the restart when the Trackhouse car tried to pressure HMS but miscalculated and turned into the outside fence instead, collecting the 2021 champ in the process.
Larson wins the race and the pit crew does not appear
Larsson did not express his annoyance at the situation after Sunday’s recent incident, avoiding speaking to reporters after the race. According to the Couch Racer Twitter account, which is run by several observers who also work on Door bumper cleared podcast HMS driver made no attempt to hide his frustration a few weeks ago at Dover when he was said to have given a hand gesture to the first team after his stage one incident.
That made things interesting on Saturday at Darlington as the Chastain’s Cup pit crew did double duty and served as the Xfinity pit crew for the No. 10 Kaulig Racing car, which Larson drove to his first ever victory at the Too Tough to Tame circuit.
According to the tweet, Larson pit crew members did not appear at Victory Lane in protest of what happened several weeks ago.
“Why is victory lane so empty?” Tweet asked. “The Xfinity 10 pit crew is also the One Cup pit crew. Looks like Larson gave them a hand nod after the accident at Dover. So they interrupted coming to victory lane at Darlington. Disrespectful or loyal?”
He wants to race more Xfinity in the future
Larson appeared as a guest on Mondays NASCAR Race Hub And speaking of both races at Darlington, he first talked about Saturday’s wild finish with John Hunter Nemechek.
“It’s nice to be on the good side of a late finish like that after losing at Kansas the previous week,” said Larson. “Thanks to Kaulig Racing. It was a fun weekend of racing with them. Hopefully we can do more in the future.”
In other words, Larson wasn’t upset that his pit crew didn’t show up for the post-race celebration and would work with them again. Because, in the end, it’s the end result on the track that’s all that matters, not who shows up on Victory Lane.
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