While Ross Chastain is flying high this season, higher than perhaps any other driver, he came crashing down in the Truck Series race. This is because, after the race, the Trackhouse Racing star fainted and was taken to the care center.
Or did he?
“I got out and then my legs just cramped up and my hips. I tried to lay down to get it to help but I figured I better go get some IVs. So I did see some stuff (with) people saying I fainted, that wasn’t true,” Chastain clarified in a post-race interview.
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Chastain revealed that he simply laid down and the reason for that was because he was dehydrated. “It doesn’t feel good when the whole bottom half of your body is cramped up,” he added.
Ross Chastain says it was dehydration that caused his legs to cramp and that is why he was on the ground after the race.
Got a couple of IVs and feels good for tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/x4iGiufAen
— Bob Pockrass (@bobpockrass) May 21, 2022
And as for those who are doubting his availability for the All-Star race on Sunday, the Watermelon man insisted he feels good, and he’s good to go in his hunt for the $1 million up for the grabs in the All-Star race.
Kevin Harvick’s prediction about Ross Chastain completely came out wrong
This season, Ross Chastain has two wins while Kevin Harvick has none.
In 2018, when Ross Chastain was racing for Chip Ganassi Racing in the Xfinity Series, he wrecked Kevin Harvick at Darlington, something Happy Harvick wasn’t quite happy about.
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The Stewart-Haas Racing driver called Chastain a “really inexperienced” racer and predicted something about the current Trackhouse Racing driver that didn’t come true at all, considering the current state of things.
“Got a really inexperienced guy in a really fast car, made a really bad move, and wrecked me,” Harvick said.
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“Probably the reason he’ll never get to drive many of them again.”