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The thrilling race on Sunday at Bristol Motor Speedway was more like a movie, riddled with eventful and controversial incidents and plot twists present at every turn! NASCAR community witnessed a furious Stewart-Haas Racing driver Ryan Preece had enough, as he got on with a bloody dogfight with Kyle Larson.

NASCAR veteran and legend Tony Stewart, also the co-owner of Stewart-Haas Racing, was in for a dramatic episode as his team backed Preece to take back control.

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Even the #41 team felt the driver’s frustration as they prompted an already furious Preece to take it to the Hendrick Motorsports driver!

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Looking to repeat his stage 1 win, Kyle Larson made an aggressive move against the #41 driver that later proved to be costly. By the final stage of the race, fans witnessed the Stewart-Haas driver going for revenge as he exclaimed, “It’s game over.”

With NASCAR coming out with team radios, we saw the bloody aggression between the drivers as an intense battle was waged!

It’s tooth for a tooth, eye for an eye, as the Stewart-Haas Racing team feeds the fire!

Things went from bad to worse for both drivers as they engaged in an intense back and forth inside the oval. Kyle started things off, driving aggressively and blocking Preece, causing multiple bumps while coming off a turn.

Both the Chevy and the Ford went back and forth on multiple occasions until Ryan Preece decided to put an end to the feud with his team backing him up to put a full stop to the quarrel.

The Stewart-Hass Racing spotter and crew chief sparked the driver to return what he received. “Keep riding hard here. He’s running scared,” said the spotter. While Chad Johnston reminded Precce, “Send his a*s if you get there, he shouldn’t make mistakes like that. So I doubt it was.”

During the later stages of the race, an infuriated Preece came out unrestrained, “You know what I’m sick of?“, “Excuses!” 

While his crew chief vented his frustration, prompting the raging Preece to drop the bomb, “No, he thinks he’s better than everybody else.”

“He can race you like a*** and then you’re just supposed to take it I guess.” 

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Engaged in their run-ins, the race did not end well for both drivers!

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With NASCAR encouraging the aggressive style of racing, as stated by Elton Sawyer, the drivers took things a bit far, with both of them ending up in bad spots!

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All it took was Larson to make an aggressive move and block the oncoming Mustang coming off the corner. This got Preece mad as he caught the Chevy during the caution, pulled it aside, gestured his anger at Larson vividly.

WATCH THIS STORY: Kyle Larson lashes out: “get that out of my f**king face.”

With things heating up, Larson who was leading till stage 1 ended up in 3rd position at the end of stage 2. “It was not a mistake” as Preece puts it, decided to hammer the final nail in the coffin, going after Larson in the final stage.

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Catching the Mustang, Preece did not hesitate to slam his car into the side of #5 causing the Larson to spin out of control and into the wall!

As Kyle Larson, who is known for his expertise on dirt tracks, ended up 35th, Preece, after his thirst for vengeance, could only manage a 24th spot.