Bubba Wallace’s Close Friends Ryan Blaney, Daniel Suarez & Corey LaJoie Slam “Extremely Dumb” Kyle Larson Assault

Sunday’s race at the Las Vegas Super Speedway flooded the news with snippets of the infamous Kyle Larson and Bubba Wallace incident. Almost the entire NASCAR community demanded that the governing body take an action on it and on Tuesday, NASCAR served Wallace with a penalty.

Reacting to the news of Wallace’s penalty, Corey LaJoie said in an episode of Stacking Pennies; “You hate to see it. But it’s justified. We saw a suspension for Matt Kenseth for wrecking Joey Logano at Martinsville. We’ve seen very similar penalties for similar actions. And I don’t believe Bubba Wallace is gonna do that again.” 

Furthermore, Daniel Suarez too was asked to share his opinions on the recent NASCAR penalties imposed on Bubba Wallace and Cole Custer. Suarez said; “In my opinion, all of those moves were extremely, extremely dumb. Both of them. And both of them I was going to be extremely surprised if there were no penalties.”

However, Suarez did mention that he would have never done anything like that. He said; “Like before even those situations happened, I will never do something like that. I mean not that clear (laughs). You have to be smarter. I don’t know what those guys were thinking but I am glad NASCAR is reacting to this.”

In his interview at Miami Homestead, Ryan Blaney also discussed his opinions on the issue. In fact, he revealed that he did talk to Wallace after the incident. He said; “Yeah, I spoke to him. Didn’t speak of that but it’s NASCAR’s decision, whatever they thought was the right thing to do in that kind of case.”

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Furthermore, Blaney said that he was glad that NASCAR was laying down rules and reacting to situations that they feel are wrong.

What NASCAR penalties did Bubba Wallace and Cole Custer face?

During the race at the ROVAL, Chase Briscoe was racing at the 12th position while his teammate Cole Custer was at the 8th. But to help his teammate, Custer slowed down his car at the backstretch of the last lap. Thus, manipulating the results of the race.

As per NASCAR’s Section 5.5, the governing body accused Custer of “artificially altering” the finishing order and hence imposed a $100,000 fine on him and Michael Shiplett. Moreover, NASCAR penalized the team with 50 points in the driver and owner’s standings.

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Whereas, Bubba Wallace spun out Kyle Larson on the field and physically assaulted him after the incident. Seeing his retaliation and his contact with Larson as a ‘dangerous act,’ NASCAR suspended Wallace for the next race. As a result, the 23XI Racing driver will not be participating in the Miami-Homestead race.