NASCAR to review Joey Gase bumper throw, talk with Gase
NASCAR confirmed they will review an incident involving Joey Gase throwing a bumper cover at Dawson Cram’s car under caution.
Entering turn one on lap 171, Cram bumped into Gase, sending him into the outside wall hard.
The wreck knocked Gase out of the race but he wasn’t done making noise. Gase yanked the rear bumper cover off of the rear of the car, walked down the track and threw it at Cram’s car as he walked by.
“He just didn’t have his head screwed on right. I gave the kid his first opportunity ever in Xfinity. I know Johnny Davis isn’t in the business of wrecking racecars, we’re not either. We’re small teams racing hard for the lucky dog. He just didn’t know how to lift. Maybe his throttle stuck, I don’t know,” Gase told FS1.
NASCAR confirmed to TRE they will look at that incident for possible penalties. Xfinity Series rulebook section 8.3.5 specifies what a driver can/can’t do when they get out of the car on-track after an incident:
Cram caught flack from his own team over the radio. He told the team he bumped Gase “for two seconds” but the team fired back at him.
“Well it was two seconds too many. Not good,” one team member said before another said, “He just wrecked the 35 for no f-cking reason.”
Cram came into Saturday with 16 Xfinity Series starts and 31 Craftsman Truck Series starts to his name, dating back to 2018 in Trucks and 2021 in Xfinity.
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Jonathan Fjeld is the co-owner of the The Racing Experts, LLC. He has been with TRE since 2010.
A Twin Valley, MN, native, Fjeld became a motorsports fan at just three years old (first race was the 2002 Pennsylvania 500). He worked as a contributor and writer for TRE from 2010-18. Since then, he has stepped up and covered 24 NASCAR race weekends and taken on a larger role with TRE. He became the co-owner and managing editor in 2023 and has guided the site to massive growth in that time.
Fjeld has covered a wide array of stories and moments over the years, including Kevin Harvick's final Cup Series season, the first NASCAR national series disqualification in over 50 years, Shane van Gisbergen's stunning win in Chicago and the first Cup Series race at Road America in 66 years – as well as up-and-coming drivers' stories and stories from inside the sport, like the tech it takes for Hendrick Motorsports to remain a top-tier team.
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