Bubba Wallace shared that a message was sent to Carson Hocevar at Bristol that if he continues to poke the bear, he will get punched in the nose.
During a media interview that was shared to social media by Peter Stratta, Wallace was asked, “What kind of message does it send? Does it relieve the pressure? Do you feel in your heart that there’s more coming for Hocevar? We can talk all day about it, but we don’t drive the race cars. What kind of message do you think it sends? Did it send a message? Is there more coming? And, you, as a driver feel like that was kinda fun, now we jump back into it. Does it do anything for anyone?”
In regards to it sending a message, Wallace said, “I think the message that it sends is: FAFO. Simple as that. You continue to poke the bear, you’re going to get punched in the nose. Guess Blaney’s case, I don’t know, he got punched in the nose.”
“The message is FAFO…”
“Race people the way they race you, and don’t take crap…”
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“For me, it shows the level of respect to disrespect. Ever since I was a kid, we’d have our run ins, whether I was in the right or if I was in the wrong. It was about respect of one another,” he continued. “I go back to Austin Hill and I. Man, we hated each other. In Legend cars we were constantly hitting each other and wrecking each other and we were always getting even because we always felt like, ‘Well, last week you got me so I got to get you.’ And then we finally reached a point to where we went our separate ways and were competitors now.”
“But I think those moments when you’re a kid and you first learn how to race and not being a pushover. Because if I see somebody that continues to get run over and they do nothing about it, well, when it’s my turn to be aggressive and get by this guy on a green, white, checkered then I’m going to use him up because he’s not going to do anything about it,” Wallace shared. “I don’t want that message to come across from my camp. Me as a driver, my team, that I’m going to let anybody run us over or ruin our race just because of the hell of it. Nah, that’s not going to happen. There’s going to be consequences and repercussions whether it’s on my side or not.”
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Wallace then pointed towards his incident with Kyle Larson at Las Vegas back in 2022. During that race, while he and Larson were battling for fifth, Wallace felt he was squeezed into the outside wall by Larson. He then retaliated by chasing him down the track and then driving into his right rear quarter panel and sending him spinning hard into the outside wall.
After exiting his car, Wallace then walked down to Larson’s wrecked car and confronted him. First, throwing his hands in the air asking him what was going on and then quickly shoving him back towards his car. He shoved him a handful of more times while also exchanging some words as Larson fended him off. He was suspended one race for his on-track actions.
Wallace said, “I don’t justify anything I’ve done at Vegas to Larson, but that was the last time I’d been put in the fence running competitively inside the top 5. People are still going to hate me for that and that’s okay, but at the end of the day I’m sticking up for my team and how we were disrespected in that moment. And I haven’t been disrespected since.”
Interestingly enough, Kevin Harvick made similar comments on SPEED with Harvick and Buxton.
“At some point, you have to stand up for yourself, as Blaney tried to do in this particular moment,” Harvick continued. “And you hear a lot of guys talking about what they’re going to do, what they think of it, but they never do anything. At some point if you’re that fed up with it, you just got to wreck him. And you got to do it aggressively, and you got to stand behind it. That’s the thing that reaches to a boiling point.”
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