Brandon Overton explains why he was so mad at Bobby Pierce that he threw his helmet at him and threatened payback against him after he wrecked in the closing laps of the race.
On a restart with 23 laps left in the 75-lap feature, Overton and Pierce started side by side behind only leader Jonathan Davenport. Pierce attempted to take the second spot and pin Overton down on the bottom. As they went through turns 3 and 4, Overton made contact with Pierce’s car and Hudson O’Neal was able to get by both of them. As Overton went into turn 1, it appeared as if something broke and he hit the wall hard in turn 1. He would get hit by Brandon Sheppard and Cody Overton. Trey Mills would seemingly avoid Overton, but t-boned his brother Cody as he took evasive action to try and avoid his brother.
After he exited his car, Overton threw his helmet at Bobby Pierce making contact with Pierce’s door. He then collected his helmet and confronted Pierce in the hot pit as he was getting his tire changed. Overton learned into Pierce’s window and gave him a piece of his mind. He can be heard saying, “As soon as I [inaudible] I’m going to f*** you up. Don’t you f***ing [inaudible].” He also smacked Pierce on the head.
Following the conclusion of the race, Pierce claimed the FloRacing Night in America Championship and addressed the contact with Overton, “I’ll have to watch replay, but I bet I just pry didn’t leave Brandon enough room down there. And I think he pry thought I was going to the top too so he pry wasn’t expecting me to run that bottom-middle. I was trying to leave him a lane. I told him there, ‘Man, all I needed to do was run top 7 and I wasn’t trying to wreck you into the wall.’ But I know he’s mad and he has every right to be so if so I’m going to take the blame on that. If he thinks he owes me one, he owes me one. Hopefully, we can go to the next one, the next time I race him and we’ll be all good.”
“Had to make some dicey moves coming up through the field,” he continued. “I slid Winger three or four times. Not the cleanest slider. And he let me know one time. So that’s just kind of the things I had to do some of the times coming through the field. Most of my passes were pretty good.”
In a post to Facebook, Overton explained why he was so mad at Pierce, “Wasn’t the smoothest operation tonight. Appreciate 32 owning his mistake post race, and I always expect him to race me hard, but you don’t have to make contact chopping me off and cut down the right front. Went into 1 after contact and a flat right fenced us. Junked the car.”
“Appreciate all the guys busting ass to put this car back together and sorry to all the folks that got collected in the mess,” he concluded.
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