“I’m Gonna Get Disqualified” – Kyle Larson Regrettably Admits He Was “Gonna Cry” as He Reveals His Most Embarrassing Moment Winning a Race

NASCAR driver Kyle Larson was recently featured in Corey LaJoie‘s podcast “Stacking Pennies with Corey LaJoie” where they talked about their most embarrassing moments while racing. Larson shared not one but two stories, and the second one had him “gonna cry.”

The first story was about the time when Larson was racing at Caine in Dover and he got into an accident.

He said, “His brakes work so good, it hung a left, I hit the wall down the backstretch like that didn’t even get in the corner yet.

And like, clipped the wall and like wrecked, bit the frame, part you know, driver-side face, and the beard hill gang, and they’re just screaming at me ‘Boo’ and yelling’, making fun of me.”

He admitted it was a very embarrassing moment for him.

Larson’s second story was from a couple of weeks ago when he won a Late Mar race. After the win, he was so pumped that he couldn’t wait to go back on the track and do some donuts. However, things didn’t go as planned, and he ended up crashing into the wall.

He said in the podcast, “I spin this thing out instantly… I’m like ‘OH SH*T, I’m back in this thing in the wall’ and it came backward and it finally swung around and hit the nose. So the nose is folded up underneath the front.”

Larson knew he was in trouble as he had not gone to droop, which is a post-race inspection process.

He said, “I’m gonna get disqualified… Thankful, they never told me… I wouldn’t have known if they did or not, but they didn’t tell me on the radio to go to droop.”

Nose job required after the race left Larson feeling blue

When asked what his team owner Chip Ganassi said, Larson responded, “He was just concerned that I was concerned. He was like ‘I thought you were gonna cry’ and I was like ‘I wasn’t, but if we would’ve got disqualified, I might have.’”

Larson revealed that it takes hours of work to put the nose back on the car and he felt bad about it.

It’s not uncommon for drivers to have embarrassing moments while racing. In 2018, NASCAR driver Kevin Harvick ran over his own pit crew during a race in Texas, which left him with a damaged car and a 40th-place finish. In 2020, driver Bubba Wallace crashed out of the Daytona 500, which he called “the biggest race of our season.”

Kyle Larson’s two stories from the podcast demonstrate that even the best drivers have embarrassing moments while racing. The adrenaline-fueled sport is unpredictable, and anything can happen. The important thing is to learn from those moments to move on and strive to do better in the next race.