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Rick Hendrick Vs. Ross Chastain | The Ross Chastain Saga ESCALATES

Ross Chastain is at it again, and this time it's Rick Hendrick who is now angry at his antics. With the incident between Kyle Larson and Ross Chastain at the Darlington Raceway all of both NASCAR and Hendrick Motorsports was put on notice by Rick Hendrick who spoke of his distain for the actions of Chastain. With it many will be watching with a keen eye, as Hendrick rarely have choice words for opposing teams' drivers.

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59 comments

The Iceberg May 15, 2023 at 10:38 pm

What do you think of Rick Hendrick’s comments on Ross Chastain?

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Slowturtle 11 fan May 15, 2023 at 10:59 pm

I’m agreeing what with Geoff bodine said “those guys never raced Earnhardt”

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Avery Alford May 15, 2023 at 11:24 pm

It’s going to be like the playoffs in 2014.

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GamerRiderG3 May 15, 2023 at 11:56 pm

its a little hypocritical considering how many times Hendrick cars has done the same thing.

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Timechanger ! May 15, 2023 at 11:59 pm

The main thing I didn’t like was Larson did that 2 days in a row. First he put John hunter in the wall then walked chastain. You could say chastain deserved it, but why did John hunter?

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Cole Murray May 16, 2023 at 12:24 am

All I can say is that Ross is probably taking over Ty’s heel role which I didn’t see it coming to be honest. Hey, did the OOTG car got any camera time? If not, why bother?

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KelvinST165 May 15, 2023 at 10:58 pm

The Ross Chastain villan arc continues

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NASCARFAN93100 May 15, 2023 at 10:58 pm

You know it’s getting out of hand when Rick Hendrick calls you out for your aggressive driving

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S.KullRandom May 16, 2023 at 12:17 am

Yet he bribes the appeals board every time they call him out on something

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Cole Murray May 16, 2023 at 12:30 am

​@S.KullRandom You have no legitimate proof to back that up.

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HN9 May 15, 2023 at 11:00 pm

I’m someone who won’t complain about how Ross is racing. It got him here, why should he stop now? Yes, he should back down a bit, but he shouldn’t entirely stop racing like this.

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Ryan Derke May 15, 2023 at 11:08 pm

It’s not really the way he races that bothers me, it’s how he goes about it saying, “I made a mistake” and apologizes for it only to do it again next week.
I’d rather have him just say, “this is how I drive, cry about it” than try and be like “oh nooo I’m so sorry, I promise it won’t happen again” and continue to do it.

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Chips Dubbo May 16, 2023 at 12:14 am

@Ryan Derke That’s just the way the game is played now, soulless platitudes are encouraged and honesty is penalized in NASCAR, just ask Hamlin.

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TSholts May 16, 2023 at 2:04 am

​@Chips Dubbo Hamlin shouldn’t have wrecked him for no reason other than to settle a score that could’ve been done sometime in the 8 months prior to that happening. He deserved that penalty

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Brian Jones May 16, 2023 at 4:05 am

He will NEVER win a championship doing this.

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Chips Dubbo May 16, 2023 at 4:08 am

@Brian Jones He finished runner up last year and has been the points leader for most of this year, seems to be working well for him so far

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Dual Threat Outdoors May 15, 2023 at 11:04 pm

One of these weeks he’s gonna be in a full blown fight after a race. It’s only a matter of time

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Joseph Phillippe May 15, 2023 at 11:15 pm

Good. These drivers need to quit whining to the camera and actually do something. I’m a chastain fan, I 100% want to see him fight some people

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Salty Flightdeck CPO May 16, 2023 at 12:17 am

Chastain gonna be cutting em and stacking em like a truckload of watermelons. The whiny little simps fight best on social media.

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Run Rafa Run #THEBESTINTHEWORLD May 16, 2023 at 3:55 am

@Joseph Phillippe but we shouldn’t expect Larson to do anything though. I don’t even know why everyone expects that from him.

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Cito Browne May 15, 2023 at 11:11 pm

I have a feeling we’re gonna have another 2014 Texas moment, when a full out brawl happens on pit road

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Marky Marc May 15, 2023 at 11:20 pm

I said the exact same thing. He WILL be punched sometime this year.

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Christian Kallio May 15, 2023 at 11:50 pm

I hope we see something like that. Or another Jeff vs Clint moment. And this is coming from someone who’s both a Hendrick and Trackhouse fan. At the end of the day I wanna see some entertaining racing and feuding bottom line. Can’t say this doesn’t make for good television

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Daniel Moorefield May 16, 2023 at 12:00 am

Might be at Martinsville or there’s a brawl at trailer like Kenseth and Keselowski.
I might be there to see it.

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Salty Flightdeck CPO May 16, 2023 at 12:12 am

@Marky Marc Remember it’s not about how it starts, it’s how it ends. The drivers who have the balls to punch him are few at best.

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Chase Calhoun May 15, 2023 at 11:12 pm

As someone who doesn’t like Chastain being THIS aggressive, I think it’s good for the sport. Every sport needs a villain and we have one. I don’t think he needs to stop being aggressive but just pull it back just a little bit or we’re just going to see wrecks with him and other Chevy drivers every week. But it does bring good attention to the sport and have ppl watch that may normally not watch NASCAR every week but now they are to see what Ross does next. Just depends what side you look at

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Matt B. May 16, 2023 at 12:39 am

The issue is, Ross isn’t really a villain. Kyle Busch is a villain. Logano was a villain, and arguably still is to some despite his efforts to clean up his image. Those guys embraced the role. Ross doesn’t. The other thing those guys have that Ross doesn’t is that they’re good enough that they don’t have to drive dirty to be successful. The fans know that, which makes them even more agitated. Ross is just a midfield driver in top notch equipment, similar to what Michael Waltrip was at DEI.

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The Arbor May 16, 2023 at 2:02 am

​@Matt B.Kyle Busch is not a villain anymore lol

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Guardians Creed May 16, 2023 at 2:24 am

I disagree and here’s why. Fans who come into this sport thinking this is an every week drama will lose interest when it’s not. The Ross drama needs to be short lived. Real fans should be agitated by him,

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Mr. Smooth May 16, 2023 at 2:46 am

@Guardians Creed Yep!! At first I thought it was good for the sport and liked watching the drama unfold but now I’m tired of it, Its stealing the spotlight from fantastic racing like Kansas.

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Joseph Phillippe May 15, 2023 at 11:19 pm

Frankly im surprised how this has completely dominated the news cycle and no one seems to even care about truex’s absolute bonehead spin right before it.

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Troy Andrade May 16, 2023 at 12:57 am

Exactly!

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OATmeal Oscar May 16, 2023 at 3:30 am

Legit forgot that happened

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Karen Koe May 16, 2023 at 1:29 pm

Truex does NOT DO that virtually every week.

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Joseph Phillippe May 16, 2023 at 1:41 pm

@Karen Koe  exactly so it’s more surprising and newsworthy.

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gatling216 May 15, 2023 at 11:28 pm

Watching the 1 car at the track yesterday, it was pretty obvious that the other drivers move differently when he’s around. The lapped cars seemed kind of skittish, almost like they were afraid of him, while the leaders, with the somewhat ironic exception of Hamlin, looked ready to throw elbows. I can’t help but think a lot of these incidents come from his reputation more than his driving. Like the Truex thing. Ross spent a lot of time trying not to lap his teammate, and when Truex got to him, he gave up the bottom lane, despite the fact that that’s where he was comfortable. Truex didn’t have to try and squeeze him, but he did, and that cost him a stage win. The Larson wreck probably wouldn’t have happened if he didn’t get squeezed on the restart before that. Chastain makes mistakes, and lots of them, but it’s like everyone else forgets how to race smart when they’re around him, too.

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Existing in a space May 16, 2023 at 5:10 am

Good point, given the slower cars have to worry about Ross dumping them for an easy lap pass.

I mean seriously, what do you gain by wrecking Brennan Poole in Rick’s #15 car…. You gain nothing but one more person who wants to deck you outside your hauler.

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Edward Dreier May 16, 2023 at 6:15 am

@Existing in a space i mean, tbf, whenever a RWR shitbox is taken off the track, thats one less roadblock…idc whos in it, RWR needs to just go away

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Caleb Roache May 16, 2023 at 2:06 pm

@Existing in a space poole checked up going into the corner way too early thats why he got spun

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Acklapa_14 May 16, 2023 at 4:36 pm

People also forget to mention Larson squeezed him because early Ross pinched Larson so much it got him sideways to where he lost 3 spots.

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ThoughtStream May 15, 2023 at 11:30 pm

Everyone is talking about the wall, but Chastain jumped the start on the second to last restart. Larson only came up on him because of that, if Ross had started by the rules none of this would happened.

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UltNascarChaseFan May 16, 2023 at 1:45 am

I agree 100%. I feel like I was the only person who noticed

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Abacus May 16, 2023 at 1:55 am

Nascar fucked up that whole restart to begin with, why were half destroyed cars put on front of non wrecked car

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dabprod May 16, 2023 at 3:44 am

9591…..Exactly right. Why didn’t NASCAR call him on that and then have a new restart? Chastain is a cheater, needs to be reeled in. If NASCAR doesn’t do it, the other drivers will. Personally, I can’t wait to see it.

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Existing in a space May 16, 2023 at 5:12 am

Nascar did notice it but only after the accident I think.

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CastandBlast May 15, 2023 at 11:41 pm

I didn’t realize that Truex spun out at the end of stage 2 because chastain went too hard into the turn and hit the wall, bouncing off into Truex.

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NAPARacingFan 927 May 15, 2023 at 11:43 pm

These incidents by Chastain are also costing him race wins.

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Knight of the Nine May 16, 2023 at 12:03 am

and yet is top 1st on championship points.

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DTRacing ,. May 16, 2023 at 5:36 am

@Knight of the Nine Points aren’t the only thing that win championships

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MetalDuck May 16, 2023 at 12:04 am

Ross shouldnt of even been there on that last restart. He quite clearly jumped the prior restart and shouldve been penalized

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Todd Knaperek May 16, 2023 at 2:51 am

It’ll be interesting seeing that the next race is a non points race at a short track. That seems like a prime opportunity for a payback or three.

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Tyler Lynch May 16, 2023 at 3:28 am

I’ve heard it said on Door Bumper Clear that the drivers you worry about doing payback aren’t the ones who say they will, but the ones who are quiet. Case in point Matt Kenseth. Kyle Larson not only didn’t talk to the media but completely avoided the question while being interviewed on RaceHub. With the fact the next race is a non points race happening at a short track, this is going to get very interesting.

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Rob The Green Engine May 16, 2023 at 8:52 am

Surely NASCAR drivers know it would be pointless (no pun intended) to get payback in an exhibition race where Ross won’t lose anything. They’d save it for the playoffs knowing them.

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Michael Pawlowski May 16, 2023 at 4:26 pm

Yah, absolutely no reason to go after him in the all-star race. You have to wait for apoints race. However if all these guys are gonna keep making idle threats its pointless to talk about it. They all know if the retaliate, NASCAR will fine them. At what point does NASCAR sit him down and say “enough is enough”!! Also….If all the guys saying “We owe him” actually get him back race after race after race…..then we wont have to worry about seeing him in the playoffs. My idea is…wait til the playoffs and every jump in his $h&t and take him out at the first three playoff races to take him out of contention.

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MackisLife May 16, 2023 at 5:10 am

As long as NASCAR allow this kind of aggressive racing: Chastain will keep doing it

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Iesha Pope May 16, 2023 at 11:55 am

I keep hearing Chastain paying back Larson for his restart. Does he not remember Larson only crowded Ross bc Ross first ran Larson damn near in the fence. It was even and then Ross goes and does it again smh

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Alex Spitznaugle May 16, 2023 at 3:51 pm

Going into this year, I was definitely more worried about Ty Gibbs than I should’ve been and not worried enough about Ross Chastain

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Harambe's Revenge May 16, 2023 at 3:57 pm

Anybody that can get under the skin of a driver as nice as Kyle Larson is fantastic in my book. Larson needed to start pushing back, and Chastain is too fun to watch. I loved it.

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Andrew Mullins May 16, 2023 at 4:56 pm

Ross might be the best thing to happen to the sport this century. No one has been more polarizing than Chastain in this decade. No one drives the car this hard and brings this level of entertainment to the sport nearly every week. The man is leading the regular season points by a solid margin. I haven’t been this invested in a NASCAR season in years and Ross is the main reason for that. This week to me was hard racing. Larson shoved him into the wall on the prior restart. Chastain sent it a little too hard and mainly wrecked himself. He gives 100% every lap and 110% at the end and I love him for it.

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