Ross Chastain isn’t making any new friends, is he? The Trackhouse Racing driver was once again judged as the sole cause of a big wreck that collected over 6 cars during Stage 2 at Atlanta.
And because of that, the controversial driver received a mouthful from one of his ‘victims’, Austin Dillon.
“Looks like we’re a casualty of Ross Chastain once again,” Dillon said. “I told myself we were gonna race hard all day. It wasn’t one of those things where I wanted to ride in the back and be at the end.”
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“But when you’ve got guys like him out there wrecking half the field, you might as well pick a different strategy.”
"Looks like we were just a casualty of Ross Chastain again."@austindillon3 was okay after hard contact in the #QS400. pic.twitter.com/fIgjlg2K9H
— NASCAR (@NASCAR) July 10, 2022
Then there’s what Aric Almirola said about the Trackhouse Racing driver. Almirola too seems to have lost his patience with the #1 after an incident during the battle for the 15th and 16th place.
“He’s a f*cking idiot, and he knows it,” he said of Chastain.
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Ross Chastain knows he’s attracted a bit too much attention to himself
In a recent interview, Ross Chastain described that if he can just “clean up” some parts of his driving style, if he can “race with a little cooler head”, he can still do what he wants to do “a little bit better way.”
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“I’m all for … being you know, the show sometimes, and I’m good, I’m OK with that. I’ve accepted that, but I probably don’t need to be it every single week,” Chastain said.
The Trackhouse Racing driver admitted that even for his own liking, he’s gathered a little too much attention on himself. However, he knows he has no one else to blame.
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“Most of it’s my own doing,” he added.