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Gordy Gundaker Reacts To Brandon Overton’s Threat Against Bobby Pierce And Missed Calls On Friday Night

November 16, 2025  ·
  John Trent

Gordy Gundaker shared his thoughts on Brandon Overton threatening Bobby Pierce after he wrecked with about 20 laps to go in the final night of the Peach State Classic and the FloRacing Night in America series as well as the missed calls on Friday night that failed to send both Jonathan Davenport and Bobby Pierce to the rear after they were involved in wrecks.

First, 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 got 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.

Gundaker reacted to this on X writing, “I love the drama with late model racing. It needs to be this way. We need 1990s nascar vibes in our sport at all times. Personalities and helmets flying. Let the boys and their crews handle it.”

On Facebook he elaborated, “Let the boys play. Let the racers handle this shit. Throw helmets and fists if they need to. But only the drivers.”

As for Friday night and the missed calls, he said, “We need to make sure we have capable series and race directors. Clearly nobody had a clue what was going on last night. So if we want this taken seriously it has to start at the top. And in my experience, that has happened on numerous occasions during the Flo Nights over the last few years. And in plenty of other series, especially the national ones.”

On Friday night, the FloRacing Night in America series failed to send Jonathan Davenport to the rear after he was involved in a wreck with the lap car of Tyler Millwood.

The series ruled that Davenport was not involved in the caution, but spun to avoid the caution and was given his first place spot back. However, the rules are pretty clear:

In the event of a caution, the car, or cars, involved in the incident that comes to a stop on the racetrack, will be sent to the rear. If a car spins or creates a caution and you make contact and stop, you are also part of the caution. All cars that are indirectly involved in the accident (spinning or stopping to avoid the wreck without contact made) will be given their position back.

In his victory lane interview, Davenport admitted the ruling went in his favor, “We got really lucky there. I saw the crash happening, but this place is so slick like there’s nowhere I could go. I thought he was going to hold the brakes and I could get by the top, but then he closed that hole up and so then all I could do was try not to hit right with the nose, but hit him with the side.”

“Fortunately, I didn’t get put to the back there,” Davenport reiterated. “Obviously, I don’t know all the rules, but it worked in our favor there.”

As for Pierce, he was involved in a wreck with Kyle Bronson with less than 10 laps to go, but was able to retain his position given the series ruled that he kept his tires and wheels turning. Pierce’s car did come to a stop despite his masterful awareness of the situation and trying to quickly throw the car into reverse to take advantage of the blend rule.

Even if you cede that Pierce did not stop, the series gave Pierce his original spot back and did not enforce its own blend rule, which states, “In the event of an inadvertent caution caused when a driver appears to slow or spin and is able to keep going without stopping, the driver would be blended into the field where they rejoined at the time of the caution flag.”

The FloRacing ticker had Pierce in 19th blended back in, but he was returned to his 7th position where he was running when the wreck with Bronson occurred.

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Author: John Trent