"HE'S NOT WRONG": FANS SIDE WITH KYLE LARSON'S SPOTTER AFTER EXPLICIT RADIO MESSAGE AMID DENNY HAMLIN INCIDENT
The NASCAR fanbase has reacted after Kyle Larson refused to hold back and lashed at his spotter Tyler Monn with expletive words. Monn reprimanded the Hendrick Motorsports driver for letting Denny Hamlin wreck his #5 Chevrolet which didn't sit well with the 2021 Cup Series champion.
Due to the heavy downpours, the New Hampshire Motor Speedway run was red-flagged on Lap 219 for two hours and fourteen minutes. After the race resumed, Christopher Bell re-exercised his supremacy and clinched his third victory this season. After leading 148 of the extended 305-lap dash, the Joe Gibbs Racing driver has climbed to second in the playoff rankings.
Kyle Larson couldn't put his Chevrolet in the podium places but came home with a fourth-place finish despite kicking off his USA Today 301 race from the 19th place. Though he couldn't showcase his domination, the HMS driver steadily rose through the ranks to finish 12th in Stage 1 and seventh in the second stage.
During the final stage run, Denny Hamlin stole the runner-up spot as he pushed Kyle Larson wide and their doors exchanged some paint. The Californian seemed cool about the wreck as it didn't throw his #5 Chey out of contention, but Tyler Monn wasn't pleased with Larson's demeanor.
While the race was under caution on Lap 214, Monn radioed in and reprimanded his driver, saying.
"He [Denny] runs you like that every time, you know why, because you let it happen," via Skewcar on X.
Larson didn't like Monn's approach of schooling him and silenced him with his expletive reply.
"Shut the f*** up," the HMS driver angrily replied.
The fans took note of the situation and conferred with Tyler Monn over the HMS driver.
"He's not wrong! Kyle should have put Denny in the wall years ago!" one fan wrote.
"He's not wrong tho.. Larson should wreck him once and he's stop doing it lol," another fan concurred.
"Truth hurts but the spotter is right. Larson needs to push back, quit letting Hamlin push him around," the fan commented.
"I'm a huge kyle larson fan but his spotter is right," another fan added.
One fan opined that Larson should race precisely how Hamlin does and wrote.
"He needs to start racing Hamlin the way he races him, COME ON LARSON."
This fan took a jibe at Larson, for Hamlin having some "dirt" against the former because he didn't retaliate.
"Hamlin gotta have dirt on Larson the way Larson such a pushover for him 🤣," they wrote.
"I deserved to be raced with respect"- When Kyle Larson slammed Denny Hamlin for unjustly robbing him of the win last year
During the restart at the Pocono Raceway race last year, Kyle Larson and Denny Hamlin ran door-to-door battling for the lead. But the #11 Toyota driver used up the middle line a little too much, leaving no room for the #5 Chevrolet driver to make a pass.
As a result, with just seven laps to go until the checkered flag dropped, the Californian got rammed into the outer wall, while the Florida native grabbed the lead. But a few laps after the incident at Turn 1, the race was yellow-flagged and the HMS driver caught up to Hamlin. The former wrecked the latter's driver-side door, displaying frustration for the wreck.
Post his Pocono race, the HMS driver called out the Joe Gibbs Racing driver for his "dirty" maneuvers while claiming he "deserved to be raced with respect."
"I felt like I didn't [deserve that]. I deserved to be raced with respect, at least through Turn 1, but he [Denny] knew that was going to be his only opportunity to beat me with how bad dirty (it) was," Larson said via USA Today.
Denny Hamlin swept the 2023 HighPoint.com 400 at the Pocono Raceway while Kyle Larson succumbed to a 20th-place finish.
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