“Kyle Larson Gets the Benefit of Doubt a Lot” – Kyle Busch’s Nemesis Fuels the Ross Chastain Controversy With a Bold Claim

Post Darlington, the majority of the NASCAR community is talking about Ross Chastain. With his involvement in the wreck concerning Kyle Larson, he has truly become the hottest topic. While many have criticized him and his aggressive racing style, one of Kyle Busch’s rivals sides with Chastain. In fact, he has some strong statements to make.

Without a doubt, Chastain has done amazingly well to lead the NASCAR Cup Series standings right now. While he has been impressive, his fellow drivers haven’t quite liked the way he has driven this campaign. However, the Trackhouse Racing team driver will be relieved to know that there still there are people who support him.

Kyle Busch’s nemesis slams Kyle Larson for making Ross Chastain the guilty personality

It is no secret how Ross Chastain has had a big role to play in multiple wrecks this season. Directly or indirectly, his aggressive driving has turned out to be problematic for others. However, it has now become a topic of concern for many as heavy criticism comes Chastain’s way.

Things got wild at Darlington Raceway last Sunday when the #1 driver was involved in a strong tussle with Kyle Larson. Eventually, this resulted in the crashing of both cars, taking them out of contention. While many have been furious with Chastain for this act, one of Kyle Busch’s rivals has come to his rescue.

On his Stacking Pennies podcast, Corey LaJoie has come defending the 30-year-old. Speaking on the incident, he said, “I’m on Ross’s side. I think you got to let the big dog keep eating.” In fact, LaJoie had quite a lot to say against Larson. He said, “Kyle Larson gets the benefit of the doubt a lot because how successful and how fast and how generally speaking how impressive he is.”

He continued, “I think to your point Kyle Larson has made a living a damn good one, by putting people in equally as compromising positions as Ross did to Kyle Sunday. I was trying to get the full context there because somebody said that Kyle was aggravated of how tight Ross random couple restarts prior to which they never ran into each other.”

In fact, LaJoie pointed out how Larson’s approach prior to the wrecking was not to be ignored. He said, “Kyle raced him those last couple restarts driving your left rear on your door, the restart right before the shoe’s on the other foot and they swapped lanes. Larson when they started wrecking behind him, Larson drove him right into the fence.”

The Spire Motorsports driver didn’t hesitate to highlight how Larson was equally responsible for the wreck. He said, “So, before we dial up Chevy, before we start yelling at Eric Warren to come intervene in this thing, yeah it wasn’t a one-sided deal. Like there was tough and borderline dirty racing on both sides before the outcome of which Ross was full commit like you said when he got out of the media center and it ended up with both of them in the fence.”

While LaJoie makes an interesting point here, surprisingly even Denny Hamlin spoke on similar lines recently.

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It is no secret how Denny Hamlin has always preferred being the unfiltered and straightforward vocal version of himself. Most recently, he had an interesting view of the Darlington wreck. Speaking on his podcast Actions Detrimental, Hamlin made some interesting comments.

He said, “And now again, I’m not speaking up for him [Ross Chastain]. I’m not, for the record, Kyle [Larson] did hedge down from the racetrack a little bit.” When co-host Jared Allen pointed out how Larson’s actions were considering Chastain was likely to run him up the race, Hamlin replied, “So he [Larson] needed room. Yes, he wanted to have extra room to the wall. Correct.”

The 3x Dayton 500 winner added, “So, either way, I thought that they were going to make significant contact through, as much as throttle as they were carrying into the corner. But man! Yeah, it was Chastain who was probably more ahead of them. He had planned on being and so Kyle got squished into the wall. And then Chastain wrecked himself.”

This does add an interesting angle to the wreck. Was Larson really equally guilty for the incident? What do you think? Let us know in the comments below.

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