After Triggering War Inside Michael Jordan’s NASCAR Team, Brett Griffin’s Response Becomes Freddie Kraft’s Nightmare

While NASCAR rolled out a tweet commemorating the emancipation of the enslaved citizens as part of the Juneteenth celebrations, things have gone terribly bad as the aftermath of the horrific Chicago shootings comes to light. With the rising death toll, the country yet again witnessed the viciousness of gun violence. Despite the gruesome mass shooting that rocked the nation hours after the Juneteenth celebrations, the shocking incident has had a ripple effect felt even in NASCAR.

As a Stewart-Haas Racing teammate ticked off a bomb with his controversial tweet, 23Xl Racing is caught in the crossfire as tensions flare between veteran spotter, Freddie Kraft and his own teammate.

Brett Griffin Comes Out in Aid of His Fellow Spotter as the Exchange of Words Continues Online

As the world realized the after-effects of the gruesome shooting in Chicago, NASCAR nation had its own bloody battle between teammates, Freddie Kraft and 23XI Racing’s strategies and systems engineer, JR Houston. While SHR’s Joel Edmonds, spotter for Aric Almirola, expressed his thoughts about the gruesome killings, Kaulig Racing spotter, Brett Griffin also joined him as they called out the authorities for their inadequacy.

Griffin’s tweet read, “Do they arrest these people or let em just take a few days off and get back after it?” To which the SHR spotter replied, “depends on your political offiliation like ny city,” taking a sarcastic dig. Soon the debate took on a different route when Michael Jordan’s NASCAR teammate, Kraft jumped in to help his friend but ended up quarreling with his 23XI Racing teammate.

With the engineer choosing sharp words against Kraft, Griffin had to lay in some cover fire as the exchanges became more personal. As he called out the hypocrisy, Griffin also had some questions for Houston when he asked, ” He clearly wants attention from spotters. Well you have mine. What you wanna do now, JR?”

This, however, didn’t go very well for the 23XI camp and Kraft, as most fans took JR Houston’s side in the argument.

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Fans Give Their Opinions as the War of Words Wages On Between the Teammates

Amid the violence and grief that followed, NASCAR has an evolving debate at hand, as the difference of opinion between the teammates developed into a major debate online.

Most users sided with Houston to slam down Griffin, shaming his physicality. “Brett Griffin’s alone would bring it down prob”

Mentioning how meaningless it’s to debate online against a social warrior, a fan commented, “Woah Brett you better be careful picking on the social justice warriors”

While another fan wrote, “JR has a real job unlike you snowflake”

“Found yet another reason to dislike 2311”

While another user commented, “He was speaking facts actually,” reflecting on Houston’s tweet. 

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