CONCORD, N.C. — Austin Hill didn’t make any friends at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Saturday (May 25).
With the laps ticking down in the running of the NASCAR Xfinity Series’ BetMGM 300, Cole Custer and Hill were locked in a fierce battle in the top five. The two traded paint on the frontstretch, and contact blew a right front tire on the No. 21 car.
The No. 21 crashed in turn 1 and collected Custer. Hill, showing his displeasure for how he was raced, locked bumpers with No. 00 car and left-reared Custer’s damaged car on the backstretch, which sent him into the inside wall.
Hill finished 25th, two laps down after repairs. Custer was knocked out of the race, and he went scorched Earth on Hill when he was interviewed at the infield care center.
“[Hill] put me in the fence off [turn] 4, and then we hit on the frontstretch because I was gonna go pinch him down, and he decided to try and go up and side draft me, and then we hit again,” Custer said.
“And then I don’t know if he blew a tire into [turn] 1 or what happened into 1, but then he tried to kill me on the backstretch and just held it full throttle until he wrecked our car and killed the rear clip. I slapped my head against the back of the headrest.
“I don’t know. I know it was hard racing, but at the end of the day I don’t like getting intentionally wrecked and killing the front and rear clip on our race car. It’s just ridiculous. If he wants to drive like a pissed off teenager, it’s just ridiculous. I’ve said enough.”
Hill was mad about a door slam from Custer on the frontstretch after the pair made contact in turn 4 on the restart.
“I just came off of [turn] 4, everybody’s on old tires, scuffs when we came in and pitted, and I slide, trying to stay off of [Custer], and his right rear barely might’ve skimmed the wall,” Hill said. “Didn’t hurt his car any and then he completely lost his mind down the frontstretch, doored me so hard it cut the right front down.”
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